Showing posts with label gag cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gag cartoons. Show all posts

Friday, April 04, 2008

Comics action in Cosmo 1957

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Robert Day ad for Bell Telephone from Cosmopolitan, April 1957, in which they kindly define 'ubiquitous' for the reader.

Boy, public telephones certainly aren't 'ubiquitous' now, are they? In fact, this ad is incomprehensible to anyone under 20, isn't it?

Florida cartoonists1 - Cosmo1957-04
Florida Cartoonists Poke Fun at Their State, p. 1, Cosmopolitan, April 1957. Featuring Lowell Hoppes and Charles E. Sharman.

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Florida Cartoonists Poke Fun at Their State, p. 2, Cosmopolitan, April 1957. Featuring Martin Filchock and Bandell Linn.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Cartoons from Stamp Wholesaler


My friend Warren noted that I've got Cartoonphilately, a Yahoo group on cartoonists and stamps and sent this, "Attached are two scans that somewhat reverses the whole concept. Amazingly enough, a cartoon book about stamp collecting. I scanned the centerfold so you can get an idea of the cartoons inside. Its 72 pages of cartoons that was published in 1951."

Warren is fond of noting that there's a whole secret history of cartoons contained in magazines like this Stamp Wholesaler. I think he's absolutely correct, and we could use in the US a biographical dictionary of cartoonists like has been done for the UK.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Victor Vashi cartoons

Last weekend, I picked up some original cartoons by Victor Vashi at a flea market. These were originally done for the Plumbers Journal. The bookseller who had them wrote a note saying Vashi was the author of Red Primer for Children and Diplomats, Viewpoint Books, 1967 and illustrated the Handbook of Humor by Famous Politicians by Stephen Skubik.

Here's scans of all the cartoons, only a few of which still have their captions.













Monday, May 07, 2007

Adding to ye olde comic art collection

One of my scouts (thanks Liz!) picked up the following items for me this weekend at some kind of sheep festival (no, I don't know why either). Anyone recognize them?

They're a dead technology - printing blocks from when type, and everything else being printed, was carved in wood or metal. These are two cartoons recreated in metal and attached to wood block for printing. Unfortunately I can only read the signature on the Hal Money one which has lost its caption.

These must have been wildly common at one point, but I've only seen one other example - a Yellow Kid ad at Geppi's Entertainment Museum (which I still plan a post on. Great place).