In its entirety: THE CARTOONIST!, the in-house publication of the National Cartoonists Society, Annual Photo Issue Fall 1953.
The Cartoonist: a quarterly published by the National Cartoonists Society, 140 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y.
If you Google Map this address, you get:
.. a bus zooming in front to the frikkin' Google camera!Oh well, back to the mag:
Mort Walker edited THE CARTOONIST, with Bill Yates as Assistant Editor.
The 1953 NCS Board:
BOARD OF GOVERNORS: Rube Goldberg, Honorary President; Otto Soglow, President; Bob Dunn, First Vice President; Willard Mullin, Second Vice President; John Pierotti, Treasurer; McGowan Miller, Secretary; Carl Rose, General Membership Representative; EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: Martin Banner, Ernie Bushmiller, E. Simms Campbell, Milton Caniff, Past Pres., Fred Cooper, Walt Disney, Albert Dorne, Ham Fisher, Hal Foster, Harold Gray, Jimmy Hatlo, Harry Hershfeld, Bill Holman, Walt Kelly, Frank King, Bill Mauldin, George MacManus, Willard Mullin, Russell Patterson, Past Pres., Alex Raymond, Past Pres., Mischa Richter, C.D. Russell, Frank Willard, George Wunder, Chic Young.
Fred Waring was a great fan and friend of cartoonists.
Above: Fred Waring reads the Sunday funnies in a photo nicked from the Fred Waring's America site.He had a huge place in Pennsylvania and he would send a bus to Times Square for all the NCSers to get aboard and hang out at his place. Mel Casson helped start the annual visit to Waring's Shawnee Golf Resort. More here, at the Penn State Fred Waring's America site.
Back to the magazine:
Evert cartoonist should wear a hat & smoke a pipe ala Ed Dodd & Walt Kelly!
What an old boys' club! No wonder women needed dynamite to blast their way in!!
ReplyDeleteUnreal! Thanks for posting this Mike.
ReplyDeleteAfter putting Inkspot together for years it puts a real emphasis on how easy it is to put together in InDesign as opposed to old school cut and paste!
Keep an eye out for the up-coming issue online - New editor is Mark McHugh with an excellent interview with Ralph Steadman
After doing Inkspot for even longer, it's a surprise to see hand-written headlines and text!I couldn't imagine doing that - the first issue was in 1985, so we at least had a golfball typewriter and Letratype.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started on Inkspot, I used what is now called a "Mac Classic" - the tiny self-contained box thing - and used Adobe Illustrator (!!) to set the text. A long, slow, laborious job.
But the 1953 Cartoonist is as wonderful as seeing the work of a REAL signwriter (or ticket writer - remember those?) - skills never to be seen again.
Thankyou.
After doing Inkspot for even longer, it's a surprise to see hand-written headlines and text!I couldn't imagine doing that - the first issue was in 1985, so we at least had a golfball typewriter and Letratype.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started on Inkspot, I used what is now called a "Mac Classic" - the tiny self-contained box thing - and used Adobe Illustrator (!!) to set the text. A long, slow, laborious job.
But the 1953 Cartoonist is as wonderful as seeing the work of a REAL signwriter (or ticket writer - remember those?) - skills never to be seen again.
Thankyou.
Mike, I know I'm late to the party (on vacation last week) but wanted to let you know how much I appreciate this post. THIS is the NCS I want to join! Mort Walker's "Backstage at the Strips" is a terrific memoir of these times and people that I assume you've seen but others might not have. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteWow! Interesting! So I'll talk about it at http://www.afnews.info on 31 march.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike-I'm desperately searching for the Summer 1953 issue of this magazine. Any chance that you have it in your files?
ReplyDeleteMark, I don't have it but I think I know where you could find it. Email me if you get a chance.
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