15th Anniversary - 15 Original Drawings to Buy - Day 2

Continuing a week of celebrating the 15th anniversary of my blog with fifteen original cartoons and illustrations that you can buy for $15 each.

Rules: Every day this week I will post three original drawings a day. You may buy one of these originals for only $15.00 and I will mail it to you. The money will go to the American Civil Liberties Union. This is first come, first serve. 

Here are the second three. Email me if you want one. Postage paid for US addresses only. If you're outside the US, then you'll pay postage. 

1. "I call it my 'everything-on-the-second-shelf-of-the-fridge' stew." A cartoon from First For Women magazine. Letter size, ink on paper. There is a small bit of something (Mustard?) on the lower right hand side. Sorry about that.

 

 

2. "How to Eat a Lobster" cartoon from the Lobster Therapy book (Down East, 2018). Letter size, watercolor and ink on paper. You can see I tried out some color on the upper left of the original. 

 

 

3. Protest "TomMAYto, ToMAHto" cartoon. Letter size, ink on paper with a watercolor wash.

15th Anniversary - 15 Original Drawings to Buy - Day 1

Time flies.

It's been 15 years since I began my cartoon blog here.

I've written over 6800 blog entries, had millions of visits from all over the world, and I still can't believe it.

 

My thanks to everyone who is a professional cartoonist, on his/her way to becoming a pro, or just a big fan of cartooning. You have kept this going.

 

To celebrate, every day this week I will post three original drawings a day. You may buy one of these originals for only $15.00 and I will mail it to you. The money will go to the American Civil Liberties Union. This is first come, first serve. 

Here are the first three. Email me if you want one. Postage paid for US addresses only. If you're outside the US, then you'll pay postage. 

 

1. Illustration. Dude with a portfolio waiting at a bus stop. Letter size, ink on paper. 

 

2. Illustration. Kid drawing at school desk, a big thought balloon above with a dinky lightbulb inside. Ink on letter size paper.

 

3. Cartoon from Lobster Therapy book (Down East, 2018). Fisherman getting fished himself. (There is a little bit of ink on the upper right where I tried out the pen. Ink on letter size paper.

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Vintage Gag Cartoons 1946 - 1967

It's Friday! It's Date Night and time to go out .... Oh, wait. Stop. We DON'T go out. At least not until people get their vaccinations. Fortunately, we can stay in and gorge ourselves on some vintage magazine cartoons courtesy of Dick Buchanan! Thanks and take it away, Dick!

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VINTAGE GAG CARTOONS
(1946 – 1967)

It’s time once more to delve into the illimitable Cartoon Clip File and extract a few assorted vintage gag cartoons clipped from mid-century magazines . . .

1. MEL LAZARUS. Mel appropriated an “L” from Bill Keane and became Mell Lazarus, creator of the comic strip Miss Peach. The Saturday Evening Post June 3, 1950.

2. CHON DAY. Day always gave The New Yorker “first look” at his work. Collier’s October 19, 1946.

3. AL ROSS. 1000 Jokes Magazine June- August, 1960.

 

4. HERB WILLIAMS. The Saturday Evening Post June 22, 1946.

 

5. SIVIC. SIVIC is a contraction of Sid Gordin’s surname with his wife, Vicky. This Week Magazine March 17, 1946.

6. WILLIAM F. BROWN. Brown started as a gag cartoonist but is best known for writing the book of the musical, The Wiz (1974) and many other Broadway shows. American Magazine August, 1956.

 

7. JOHNNY HART. Another gag cartoonist best known for his later creations, the comic strips B.C. and The Wizard of Id. The Saturday Evening Post December 25, 1954.

8. RAY HELLE. Helle created the comic strips The Flibbertys (1953-1972) and Box Seat for the Chicago Tribune. Collier’s August 7, 1953.

9. TOM HENDERSON. American Legion Magazine October, 1967.

10. SYD HOFF. Collier’s May 26, 1951.

11. JEFFREY MONAHAN. American Magazine February, 1950.

12. BILL KING. The Saturday Evening Post July 22, 1950.

13. BILL MITTLEBEELER. The Saturday Evening Post December 5, 1953.

14. VIRGIL PARTCH. True Magazine July, 1950.

15. FRANK RIDGEWAY. Ridgeway created the comic strip Mr. Abernathy with artist Ralston Jones in 1957. The Saturday Evening Post July 5, 1962.

16. FRANK O’NEAL. O’Neal created the popular comic strip, Short Ribs. Collier’s July 11, 1953.

17. ANTON. (Antonia Yoeman) Punch December 15, 1948.

 

18. LEO SALKIN. Salkin’s 55-year career as film animator and screenwriter began in 1932. In 1983, he received the Winsor McCay Award from the International Animation Film Society in Hollywood. Collier’s November 30, 1946.

 

19. HANK BAEB. Henry (Hank) Baeb was art director of a New York advertising agency as well as a gag cartoonist. His cartoons appeared in the major magazines of the 1950’s. Collier’s March 28, 1953.

20. FRED LUNDY. Lundy was an artist with the Oakland Tribune from 1935-1935 and an editorial cartoonist for the San Francisco Examiner from 1935 until his retirement in 1976. Collier’s September 14, 1946.

Mike's Amazing World Comic Book Cover Resource

 

What comic books were on sale when you were ten years old? "The Newsstand" feature over at Mike's Amazing World has the answer. It is truly a fun place to spend time on the internet.

Cartoons from The Daily Worker

Via Rob Stolzer (with thanks):

I've just run across this incredible archive of the Red Cartoons annuals that were issued by the Daily Worker from 1926 to 1929. Marty Goodman has done an incredible job of scanning and organizing these rare volumes as individual PDF pages. There are tons of Robert Minor cartoons, as well as tons of work by the oft-forgotten Fred Ellis. Really terrific stuff.

 

 

#HourlyComicDay

Oh gosh. Well, Monday was Hourly Comic Day, something I didn't know until my friend Linette mentioned it on Twitter later that morning. Hourly Comic Day has been going on, once a year, for a while. Cartoonists draw, hour by hour, true stories about what happened that day. Here's 13 hours of my day from Monday. Hard to do since I was so busy, but fun nonetheless. These were drawn on a cheap newsprint little sketchbook. The tools: Pigma pens (the Graphic 1 and an .01 Micron). No pencils, directly to ink and little planning as possible so as to make it all spontaneous. Some drawings I drew too quick.

Video: Maru and the Sled

The big nor'easter is here, and that reminds me of Maru the cat. He has many videos on YouTube and this is just one of them. 

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Single Joke Cartoons 1948 - 1969

Here is Dick Buchanan with a sampling of gag cartoons from Great Britain. Only, they're not called gag cartoons there. Here is Professor Buchanan to explain! Now spit your chewing gum out, sit up straight and pay attention. 

(And thank you, Dick!)

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SINGLE JOKE CARTOONS
1948 - 1969


The Cartoon Clip File, located somewhere in New York’s Greenwich Village (just around the corner from the Old Joke Cemetery) contains thousands of gag cartoons, clipped from the great American magazines of the mid-20th century. There are also cartoons clipped from British magazines, where they’re called “Single Joke” cartoons. The best of these are found in the Cartoon Clip File folder “Jokes for Blokes.”  Here are just a few cartoons found in that folder.  Take a look . . .

1.  SMILBY.  (Francis Wilford-Smith)  Lilliput  December – January, 1953.

 

 

 

"And stay away from my wife . . . ."

 

 

 

2.  ERIC BURGIN.  Punch July 2, 1958.

 

 

3.  ANTON.  (Antonia Yoeman)  Punch  February 17, 1954.

"Perhaps it's lost."

 

 

4.  PAV.  Francis Minet signed his work PAV. Punch  November 5, 1958.

5.  SEMPE.  Jean-Jacques Sempe, one of the most famous French cartoonists, was best known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny, Le petit Nicolas.  Punch  August 11, 1958.

6.  SHEILA DUNN.  Punch  December 16, 1948.

7.  BILL TIDY.  Punch Almanack November 8, 1957.

8.  RUSSELL BROCKBANK.  Punch July 9, 1958.

9.  MICHAEL HEATH. Heath’s cartoons have appeared in all the major magazines.  He has been the cartoon editor of The Spectator since 1991.  Punch June 25, 1969. 

10.  LESLIE STARKE.  Lilliput  October – November, 1953.

"No, those aren't the ones either. Mine are sort

of brown suede with plastic buckles."

 

 

11. SPROD.  George Sprod  Punch  February 24, 1954.

12.  DAVID LANGDON.  Lilliput  October – November, 1952.

13.  IONICUS.  Joshua Armitage, one of the last “realistic” artistic-cartoonists, was a Punch contributor for over 40 years. Punch  April 7, 1954.

 

"Now, squeeze -- don't pull."

 

14.  HOFFNUNG.  Gerald Hoffnung was an artist, musician and raconteur.  Lilliput  October – November, 1951.

"I grow all my own vegetables . . ."

 

 

15.  NORMAN THELWELL.  Thelwell’s first contribution to Punch appeared in 1952. Over the next 25 he drew more than 1500 Punch cartoons, including 60 covers.  Punch  April 7, 1954.

 

16.  SMYTHE.  Reginald Smythe created the internationally popular comic strip, Andy Capp in 1957.  John Bull  April 9, 1949. 

 

17.  J.W. Taylor.  Punch August 11, 1958.

 

18. A.F. WILES.  Arnold Wiles.  Lilliput  January 1, 1951.

 

19.  KENNETH MAHOOD.  Punch  December 27, 1950.

 

"He's on their side now." 

 

 

20.  RONALD SEARLE.  This is one of Searle’s most famous cartoons. Punch  June 9, 1954. 

 

 The Child-hater