Navy medicine cartoons by Coleman Anderson of Dick Tracy

Do's And Dont's - Coleman Anderson

Hospital Corps Quarterly March 1946 p. 21-23

online at https://archive.org/details/dos-and-donts-by-cartoonist-coleman-anderson-hospital-corps-quarterly-march-1946-p-21-23

This series of reproductions of 12 posters used in the Hospital Carps School for WAVES at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., was prepared by Coleman Anderson, PhM2c.

The art section of the Naval Medical School produced during the war thousands of posters, drawings, and lay-outs which aided in the training and education of Navy and Marine Corps personnel. This particular series emphasizes to students the necessity for being ever vigilant while administering medicines.

Coleman Anderson is now back in his prewar billet in Chicago, With Chester Gould, he is thinking up and drawing situations for Dick Tracy to get in and out of. More Prunefaces, Flattops, Gravel Gerties, Itchys, and B. O. Plentys will be born as villains in Tracy's never ending fight to prove that crime does not pay.

here's a go-away article -

From The Hospitals

from Hospital Corps Quarterly January 1946 p. 32-33.

Cartoonist Coleman Anderson returns to civilian life and his job with Chester Gould working on the Dick Tracy comic strip. Goodbye cartoons by Robert Woodcock.

Some more Navy Medicine cartoon finds including a summary article

Selected Cartoons [of Navy medicine, in World War II]

Hospital Corps Quarterly April-May-June 1948, p. 85-88

online at https://archive.org/details/selected-cartoons-hospital-corps-quarterly-april-may-june-1948

 

 Hospital Corps Quarterly January 1946 cover probably by Steve Tabone. Caption inside reads, "Our Cover: Every lug in the class knows the answer except T-Bone, HA3c yet if they were up at the board or working in the lab, they'd be just as speechless. That's the way with medical mathematics. You just got to learn it." Illustrating the interior article Medical Department Mathematics by W. Kenneth Patton, Ensign (HC) USN.scanned from the issue. https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/55180412328/in/photostream/

 

 

 

 John McCalley cartoon for "The Hospital Corps Was there!" Hospital Corps Quarterly April-May-June 1948.scanned from the issue. https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/55180412328/in/photostream/

  

 

 "This grotesque, composite Chief-of-the-day at any naval hospital was drawn by M.A. Anderson, HMC, at USNH, Chlsea, Mass. It purports to show that a chief's 'work is never done.'" Hospital Corps Quarterly August 1949, p. 63.scanned from the issue. https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/55180244461/in/dateposted/

 

 

Chip Beck 1991 combat art in Navy Medicine magazine

 Today's surprise find at work was this combat artwork by local editorial cartoonist Chip Beck.

Here's the caption info.

Cover:  Iraqi prisoners of war move to the rear following their capture in Kuwait.  From a painting by combat artist CDR Chip Beck, USNR.  [Painting] "Historian Interviews Iraqi Prisoner of War" by CAPT M.D. Roberts, MSC, USNR, Navy Medicine Magazine  Mar-Apr 1991. Online at https://archive.org/details/NavyMedicineVol.82No.2March-april1991 or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NAVY_MEDICINE_Vol._82,_No._2_March-April_1991_(IA_NavyMedicineVol.82No.2March-april1991).pdf

and here's a recent article about him -

WLSAT Artist Profile: Chip Beck, Jun 6, 2024

Skipper/s in the Spotlight panel from the Navy Times

Mario DeMarco illustrated this panel comic in Navy Times from 1961-1981, and maybe longer. These examples from the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's Historical Office's biographical files run from 1961-1981. The GCD and the Marvel Wiki have credits for DeMarco, but Jerry Bail's Who's Who in American Comic Books has the best data, and shows him as doing "Sports comics (pen/ink/) 20 yrs in Navy Times." I could only find two other examples online (which are at the bottom), and the Times search engine is useless returning almost 7000 results. 

"Skipper in the Spotlight, Robert W. Elliott, Jr. (Dental Corps) U.S. Navy, Assistant Chief for Dentistry and Chief, Dental Division, BUMED."  03/05/1975; Navy Times Number 20, page 16

"Skipper in the Spotlight … Maxine Conder (Nurse Corps) U.S. Navy, Director, Navy Nurse Corps."  05/24/1976; Navy Times

Skipper in the Spotlight, Frances T. Shea, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, Director, Navy Nurse Corps. Navy Times 09/01/1980

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Rear Admiral Robert L. Baker (Medical Corps) U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer, Naval Regional Medical Center Philadelphia." Navy Times 06/14/1976

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Felix P. Ballenger (Medical Corps) Commanding Officer, National Naval Medical Center." Navy Times 11/05/1969

Skipper in the Spotlight: Wade H. Hagerman, Jr. (Dental Corps) U.S. Navy. Inspector General, Dental, and Deputy Chief, BuMed. Navy Times 03/20/1974

Skipper in the Spotlight: William J. Jacoby, Jr. (Medical Corps) U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer, Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia. Navy Times 08/06/1975

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Rear Admiral Paul Kaufman (Medical Corps) U.S. Navy, Assistant Chief for Material Resources, BUMED. " Navy Times 01/12/1976

"Skipper in the Spotlight. Rear Admiral Roger F. Milnes (MC) U.S.N., Commanding Officer, Naval Aerospace and Regional Medical Center, Pensacola, Florida." Navy Time 05/25/1981

"Skipper in the spotlight: Rear Admiral Richard D. Nauman (MC) USN, Fleet surgeon and assistant chief of staff for medicine, Atlantic Fleet." Navy Times 06/13/1973

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Eustine Paul Rucci (Medical Corps) U.S. Navy. Commanding Officer, Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego." Navy Times 06/08/1981

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Edward J. Rupnik (MC) USN, Assistant Chief for Planning and Logistics, BUMED." Navy Times 07/03/1974

"Skipper in the Spotlight: George D. Selfridge (Dental Corps) U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer, Naval Graduate Dental School, Bethesda. Navy Times 11/13/1974

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Henry A. Sparks (Medical Corps) U.S. Navy. Commanding Officer, Regional Medical Center, Oakland." Navy Times 03/21/1977

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Rear Admiral Herbert G. Stoecklein (MC) USN, Fleet Surgeon and Assistant Chief of Staff for medicine, Atlantic Fleet." Navy Times 02/09/1972

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Julian J. Thomas, Jr. (Dental Corps) U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer, Naval Regional Dental Center San Diego." Navy Times 09/29/1980

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Rear Admiral Robert G.W. Williams (MC) USN, Staff Medical Officer, Naval Logistics Command Pacific and Fleet Surgeon, Pacific Fleet." Navy Times 10/01/1975

"Skipper in the Spotlight: Vice Admiral Donald L. Custis (MC) USN, Surgeon General of the Navy." Navy Times 08/15/1973

"Skippers in the Spotlight: Rear Admiral Edward C. Kenney (MC) Navy Surgeon General and Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery." 6/7/1961

Skippers in the Spotlight: Rear Adm. Frank T. Norris (MC) Assistant Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Personnel and Professional Operations). Navy Times August 30, 1967.

Skippers in the Spotlight: Rear Adm. Harry S. Etter (MC) Assistant Chief (Planning and Logistics), Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Navy Times April 10, 1968.

Skipper in the Spotlight: David P. Osborne (MC) USN, Assistant Chief for Personnel and Professional Operations, BuMed. Navy Times November 24, 1971.

Skipper in the Spotlight: Rear Adm. Harry P. Mahin (MC) USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. Navy Times December 8, 1971.

Skipper in the Spotlight: Robert C. Laning, (MC) USN, Ass't Chief of Operational Medical Support, BUMED. Navy Times 7/5/1976.

And two strips from the web, the second deleted from a Wikipedia article.

RADM Floyd H. Miller, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command

Benjamin T. Hacker, Sr.