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Previously, I reproduced many of the cartoons of Mel Casson's here.
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Above: a typical Bushmiller NANCY strip, reproduced nice and large.
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Here's Charles Schulz with a rare one-panel style gag and, even rarer, done with a wash!
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Stan and Jan Berenstain doing one of their great kids gags.
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Above, one of my personal favorites; the British cartoonist J.W. Taylor. I love the little girl's blissful look as all of those cartoon men hurtle to their doom!
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Walter Berndt drew the long-running comic strip SMITTY, and is the nickname namesake for the Berndt Toast Gang.
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Ronald Searle's messy wash style is so interesting to linger over.
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OK, so my question about the above DENNIS THE MENACE cartoon by Hank Ketcham is: Did it ever really run in the paper? It's darn risque!
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I love Caplan's line style here.
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Alfred Andriola, drawing in a pen and wash single panel style, proves he was a master.
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Henry Syverson uses the black spotting to focus our eyes on the poor hubby.
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Chon Day's 2 word gag line was one of the funniest in the book.
Tomorrow: More.
2 comments:
Jeez, Mike, how vast IS your library? What a great mix of talents in one book.
I found a copy of this book a few months ago, seeing it had an original Schulz cartoon was a pleasant surprise.
I've later seen (don't remember where, probably in "Hogan's Alley") that Schulz used that same cartoon in his stationery during the 1950's, when answering fans' letters.
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