Keeping Women In Line by Mischa Richter

 

I think you can tell by the cover of Keeping Women In Line by Mischa Richter (1910 - 2001) that this book of his King Features gag cartoons is going to be a little risque -- at least for midcentury America. The Avon paperback collects 120 of Strictly Richter panels from 1948 to 1953. His bold linework was a good style for newsprint publication. He tends to frame most of his panels closely and his pen strokes swift. His trademark bold, inky style was popular, and his clients included the Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker.