SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 2

Above: Pete Wyma with a now-politically incorrect kiddie suicide cartoon.


Some more SATURDAY EVENING POST (and a few COLLIER'S) cartoons from the 1950s.





Fat jokes are a no-no in today's market, but cartoonist Andy Habbick sold this one no problem. Andy was one of many ex-GIs who studied with veteran gag cartoonist Jack Markow at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (now known as the School for Visual Arts).





Some of these cartoons are downright hostile toward children in a time when we think of the nuclear family as the center of happiness. Look at the expressions on the childless couple's faces in the above cartoon by Cy Olson.


Above: an early Joseph Farris cartoon. Joe is currently a New Yorker contract cartoonist.



Some nice wash work by Ted Key, who would not only was doing the Hazel panel in the Saturday Evening Post, but would go on to create Peabody & Sherman for the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and write movies for Disney, including Million Dollar Duck.





Above: a cartoon by Bob Barnes. "Don't Squeeze the Frog" should be on a t-shirt.


Harry mace's clean line can pack so much detail into a cartoon: the living room, the cold snow outside, the kid, in mid-scooter stride and Dad in motion.




Above: a grand example of what to leave out to make it even funnier.







I like Tom Henderson's smooth, bold lines.





A big thanks to Kristin Cawood for passing along a large scrapbook of these gag cartoon treasures from the late 1950s. More to come!

The SATURDAY EVENING POST 1950s gag cartoons blog entries:

• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 1
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 2
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 3
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 4
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 5
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 6
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 7
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 8
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 9
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 10
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 11
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 12
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 13
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 14
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 15
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 16
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 17
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 18
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 19
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 20
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 21
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 22

SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 1

Here are some SATURDAY EVENING POST (and a few COLLIER'S) cartoons from the 1950s.

Last week, out of clear blue, a very nice woman named Kristin Cawood contacted me and asked if I wanted it. She wrote:

A few years ago in a thrift shop I came upon a scrapbook given by an aunt to her nieces in 1958 with several hundred pasted cartoons mostly from the Saturday Evening Post, some from the newspapers and some from Colliers.

I thought it was really cool, but now I am trying to clean up some clutter and just couldn't throw it out. I saw your blog and thought you might appreciate the collection. It was so lovingly assembled. Anyway, would be glad to mail it to you if you have any interest.

Well, I sure do and a big public THANK YOU to Kirstin for sending this on. I'll be posting more of these in future.





















-- From a blog entry of November 1, 2010.

The SATURDAY EVENING POST 1950s gag cartoons blog entries:

• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 1
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 2
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 3
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 4
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 5
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 6
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 7
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 8
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 9
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 10
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 11
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 12
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 13
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 14
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 15
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 16
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 17
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 18
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 19
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 20
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 21
• SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 22

The Garden As of Early July

Zinnias, tomatoes and cucumbers.

Above are some tomato plants, along with a bunch of sunflowers. The cucumbers are small and in the back. 

A boxful of zinnias and basil, as well as some "volunteers:" tomatoes, morning glories and more sunflowers.

A couple of lupines on the lower left. The rest of this box has gone to seed with sunflowers, stray tomato plants and grass.

Harrah's 1962 Scenic Calendar Art

I suppose today that some Harrah's staffers would be sent out in Las Vegas and neighboring parts to take photos with their mobiles. Then these photos would be sorted into the twelve best and put in a promotional calendar.

But in the early 1960s, Harrah's hired a professional artist to depict the life in Vegas and Nevada. Here is a complete scan of Harrah's Scenic Calendar.

I don't know the name of the artist, nor is s/he credited. If you have a good guess, please let me know! My thanks to Robert Spillane for these amazing scans!