Dana Jeri Maier exhibit at the Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

UPDATE: Audio and photos online at https://archive.org/details/dana-jeri-maier-exhibit-at-the-goodwin-house-baileys-crossroads

Dana has an exhibit there, Mostly Cartoons: Cats, Turtles. and Other Characters and is giving a talk about her career to residents.

She started talking about being an illustrator who then started using word balloons and drifted into cartoons about the art world. She debuted her self-published book Worried Well at SPX and then followed it with Skipping to the Fun Part.

Emily Flake got her to pitch to the New Yorker. shown with Lianna Finck.

She was by accepted by the New Yorker online. 

This was her breakthrough that led to an agent and her book Skip to the Fun Parts. 

Now she's drawing turtles, cats, and buildings. 

Here are originals in the gallery.

 

 

the captions are usually written on separately

 

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Dale Cards catalogues online

Dale Cards (they're funny!) catalogue May 1987
Barbara Dale; Jim Dale

Chicago, IL: Recycled Paper Products, Inc

online at https://archive.org/details/dale-cards-catalogue-1987-05

Dale Cards (Unretouched Photo Below Shows People's Actual Reaction To Dale Cards.) catalogue August 1991
Barbara Dale; Jim Dale

Chicago, IL: Recycled Paper Products, Inc

online at https://archive.org/details/dale-cards-catalogue-1991-08

Posted w/ Barbara's permission. The originals are being donated to the Library of Congress' Prints and Photos division.

New Yorker cartoons advertising pizza in DC

seen in NW DC.... Matt Diffee at top, Tom Chitty on the bottom.

Flea Market Finds - Steranko, iron-ons, military music gag cartoons, and more (UPDATED with Hawkinson info)

 It's been a few months since we've had one of these posts, but the ephemera collecting never ends.

front and back of 1984 envelope for Asterix trading cards

Jim Steranko drew this box for holding comic books in 1975.

It's being donated to the Library of Congress.

2 comic strip iron-ons from NY Daily News - Doonesbury (8/10/1975) and Broom Hilda (9/7/975)

I remember these from when I was a kid. My mom actually did one for me, altho I can't recall what it was 50 years later. I just paid a dollar each for these in a vain attempt to recapture my youth.

Comics and cartoonists and sheet music have a long history. Here's some US Government publications from World War II. I bought the lot just to get the Frank Robbins one.

Regards from "Brandy" + "Johnny" Hazard" P.S. and "Side-Pocket Sam"

The rest all of artwork by Hawkinson. I cannot find ANY information on him.

UPDATE: However D.D. Degg of the Daily Cartoonist could, and sent this clipping on Frank Hawkinson: Unknown. 1944. Town Talk: Private Hawkinson Cartoonist For His Camp Siebert Paper. Yonkers Herald Statesman (August 17). 

 

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