There's still snow on the ground here after our early winter weather event on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, so this image of the vacationing family from 49 years ago sure looks good.
George Hughes illustrates the cover to the July 14-July 21, 1962 SATURDAY EVENING POST. Mr. Hughes would paint 115 POST covers for fourteen years beginning in 1948. He was its most prolific cover artist. This would be his next to last cover commission (the final one would nine years later, in 1971) as the magazine transitioned into using more and more photographs.
Here are all of the cartoons from this issue:
We begin with a topper by Henry Syverson:
Jack Markow with an animal gag:
The prolific Bil Keane, who was in the early years of producing his FAMILY CIRCUS panel, was still creating gag cartoons:
Below: a great Jerry Marcus gag.
Boris Drucker:
And we finish with another unsigned illustration by Syverson:
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