Happy Halloween!

Every October, cartoonist Bill Kresse would organize a Berndt Toast Gang spooky drawing event for charity. Fellow cartoonists would bring in an original they drew and some money, and the drawing would be given to someone else randomly, with the money raised to be given to charity. Since Bill passed away in 2014, the event has been renamed the "Bill Kresse Memorial Spooky Drawing" drawing and run by current Berndt Toast Chair Adrian Sinnott. Above is my contribution.

 

 

Related:

One Hour of The Great Pumpkin Waltz from "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" by Vince Guaraldi

Gag Cartoons from 1944 Booklet "Say 'Ah!'"

Here's something to buy for your loved one who is sick: "Say 'Ah!'" It's the "Fun Book for Convalescents." The 64 page 6"x9" staple-bound booklet comes with this RX cover warning:

WARNING!

LAUGHS ON

EVERY PAGE

CARTOONS - GAGS

- - - STORIES - - -

DON'T SEND THIS

TO ANY ONE TOO

WEAK FOR HEARTY

LAUGHTER, OR ANY

ONE WHO MIGHT

"BURST HIS STITCHES"

It's compiled by R.M Barrows and copyright 1944 by Book Production Industries, Inc. Featured writers include Ogden Nash, Robert Benchley, Hilaire Beloc, Cornelia Otis Skinner and others. The cartoons are mostly by Charles Cartwright and Martin Garrity, with more by Frank Beaven, Ed Graham, Marjorie "Marge" Henderson Buell, Herbert Middlecamp, Bill O'Malley, Herb Williams, Ralph Pekor and Barbara Shermund. All of the material was previously published in magazines or syndicates.

BBC Yearbook Covers

It's the BBC's 100th anniversary and here are a few of the great illustrated covers to their BBC Yearbooks (as well as a few Handbook covers and a map of the "broadcasting house" in 1932).  I just love the design work on these and am sad that illustration in general is not seen as much these days.

 

Video: 'You Need To Do Something': Russian Cartoonist Draws Anti-War Images In Exile

Via Radio Free Europe:

Twenty-four-year-old comic author Gleb Pushev left his hometown, St. Petersburg, after posting a caricature of the Russian president in bloody clothes with a knife in his hand on social media. In early March, fearing arrest, he went to Belgrade, where he continues to draw anti-war cartoons.

 

Video: CXC 2022: Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC

Join three award-winning cartoonists as they debate the end of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, whether cartooning awards are worth it, and the current state of editorial cartooning. Presented by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Panelists include Lalo Alcaraz, who was snubbed for the Pulitzer in 2021 but won the Herblock in 2022, Clay Jones, a Herblock finalist who won this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartooning, and Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. 

Moderated by Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher. Recorded at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Video production by Nicolettecinemagraphics: https://www.nicolettecinemagraphics.com/ 

Part of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus - October 6-9, 2022

 

Midcentury Pop Up Book: Bennett Cerf’s Pop Up Silliest Riddles

Some of the jokes and puns from Bennett Cerf’s Pop Up Silliest Riddles, which I photographed on a nice sunny, fall day outside on a palette next to my shed.

No artist given credit. The title page states: "Designed and published in cooperation with Random House by Graphics International, Inc., New York. 1967, All rights reserved. Printed in Japan"

Bennett Cerf was the publisher/editor at Random House, but may be best known for his regular appearances on the What's My Line TV game show.

 

Related:

Carl Rose Illustrations from TRY AND STOP ME by Bennett Cerf

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK