Great gag cartoonist, and children's book illustrator, Syd Hoff has an inside front cover, full-color ad. Mmm boy! Them Hoffs were able to serve meat on the table that week!

Below: Gardner Rea, whose work appeared everywhere back in the day, gives us a wordless bit of misogynistic humor.

Here is another wordless cartoon by Francis W. Dahl. More of Dahl's cartoons here.

Below: Stan Hunt and his breezy line and wash style -- with a cartoon that looks like it was taken from The New Yorker (which was probably Stan's first rejection for his one).




If Tom Henderson was cartooning today, then he would be the epitome of a good cartoonist: you can easily read his signature to Google the guy. But, like so many old gag cartoons, the humor is old now. Old and tired. And, since this is a pre-Internets cartoonist, he don't got much of a Web presence.
Anyway, I can admire Henderson's composition, line work, his wash placement -- it's all exemplary craftsmanship -- but so far as the real reason you read a gag cartoon -- for the funny of it -- well, that part fell off this cartoon way back in 1959.



The one and only Jerry Marcus made me laugh out loud with this lecherous hospital patient. I like how his black spotting (the patient's hair, her hair) draws us to the focal point.

Thus ends our visit with the SEP!
1 comment:
Thanks! These are great. My gosh, things were different, then. But that Chon Day could be published today.
Actually, in some of the tabloids a lot of these cartoons maybe still get run, thanks to a syndicate, if that still happens.
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