Mike Lynch Cartoons: From the Dick Buchanan Files: CARTOONYFELLERS’ DIGEST, "a 1955 rag for cartoonists by cartoonists"

My friend Dick Buchanan sends on a 1955 copy of the "indistry rag" Carl Kohler's Cartoonyfellers' Digest (one is page missing). Dick reminds me that Alex Toth, Russ Manning and many other then-young cartoonists got their start in hot rod and drag race cartooning, and Carl Kohler was an influence on many.

Here's Dick:

CARTOONYFELLERS’ DIGEST

MAY, 1955

Here’s another obscure “insider publication” rescued from gag cartoon oblivion. This one is really an early “zine”

It was edited & published by Carl Kohler under the auspices of Lew Card. Cartoonyfellers’ Digest like its predecessor, Inkyfeller’s Gagzette, was sent “free to everyone in the cartooning biz.” At the time, that was about 3000.

A bit about CARL KOHLER (spelled backward that’s RELHOK LRAC)

In 1959, Kohler collaborated with cartoonist Pete Millar to create CARtoon Magazine--he left after the first issue. Nonetheless, his wit and style were a perfect fit for the emerging world of hot rod and drag race cartooning, and he thrived as a cartoonist, writer and cartoon editor of Hot Rod Cartoons.

In the early 1960’s he was also a cartoon story writer. He is credited with “Quackodile Tears” (Daffy Duck) and “Martian Through Georgia” (Looney Tunes) for Warner Bros, as well as “Jungle Bungle” for the Huckleberry Hound Show, and 52 episodes of Bozo the Clown.

In 1970, as Lrac Relhok once more, he wrote about cartooning and gag writing in Mother Earth News.

Here is a copy of CARTOONYFELLERS’ DIGEST, a rag for cartoonists by cartoonists.

Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip File

Greenwich Village, NY

-- Originally blogged on October 2, 2017!

1 comment:

Orang Basikal said...: I was an avid reader of CARtoons Magazine in my high school years (1967-71). I have not found much if anything of them online. They're hard to search for, because search engines can't distinguish between CARtoons and cartoons. There's a lot I would like to see again. Much of it would be funny even to people not interested in cars. And indeed some later-famous names turn up in them.; 8:58 PM