From the Dick Buchanan Files: Gag Cartoons in Color 1943 - 1957

Here are some great old timey gag cartoons from the major magazines during the golden age of gag cartoons. These are some relatively rare color cartoons that my friend Dick Buchanan has saved and clipped for us to enjoy lo these many decades later.

Thanks and take it away, Dick!

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GAG CARTOONS in COLOR

1943 – 1957

Gag cartoons were published in black and white.  But several of the mass circulation magazines, especially Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire published some cartoons in color. Many years have passed and, somehow, a bunch of these aging cartoons wound up in the Cartoon Clip File.  Here, arranged almost completely at random are a few of these color gag cartoons. Take a look . . .


1.  MARTHA BLANCHARD. The Saturday Evening Post  August 6, 1948.

2.  REAMER KELLER.  Collier’s  March 31, 1951.

3.  TED KEY.  The Saturday Evening Post  November 5, 1949.

4.  CORKA.  (Jon Cronin)  Collier’s  March 24, 1951.

5.  HARRY LYONS.  The Saturday Evening Post  January 5, 1957. 

6.  JAN & STANLEY BERENSTAIN.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 24, 1948.

7.  IRVING ROIR.  Esquire  February, 1952.     

8.  JOHN RUGE.  The Saturday Evening Post  April 18, 1959

9.  JERRY MARCUS.  The Saturday Evening Post  June 22, 1957.   

10. DAVID GERARD.  Collier’s  November 12, 1949.

11. ED NOFZIGER.  The Saturday Evening Post  December 10, 1949.

12.  JERRY MARCUS.  The Saturday Evening Post  June 8, 1957.

13.  KATE OSANN.  Collier’s  March 11, 1950.

14.  FRANK BEAVEN.  Collier’s  August 14, 1943.

15.  HANK KETCHAM.  Collier’s  March 31, 1951.