COLLIER'S COLLECTS ITS WITS: 66 Cartoonist Self-Portraits

 

COLLIER'S COLLECTS ITS WITS is a large trade paperback from 1941, which may make it the first trade paperback. As the cover splash says, the book contains

339 colossal cartoons by

103 extraordinary artists

 enthusiastically edited by

GURNEY WILLIAMS

with 66 life stories and 66

devastating self-caricatures

 It's the self-caricatures that I wanted to post. Here are a few highlights:

Reamer Keller:

Charles Addams:

Syd Hoff:

Helen Hokinson:

And, below, are the 66 stories and caricatures of some of the great COLLIER'S cartoonists:

Above: the back cover.

 

-- Edited from a July 14, 2011 entry.