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!
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Below: Gardner Rea, whose work appeared everywhere back in the day, gives us a wordless bit of misogynistic humor.
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Here is another wordless cartoon by Francis W. Dahl. More of Dahl's cartoons here.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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