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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

"Mutts" Salutes Old Comic Strips

The Reuben Awards were this past weekend and Patrick McDonnell used his comic strip Mutts to honor the old cartoonist masters last week. Here are his dailies. Can you identify these old comic strip characters? I knew you could!

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Vintage Gag Cartoons 1935 - 1964

There was a time when all of the major American glossy magazines had single panel gag cartoons. These were read once or twice and, like the magazines themselves, chucked in the garbage many decades ago. Thankfully, Dick Buchanan and his sharp pair of scissors saved thousands. Today, as he has over these past six years, Dick has a batch of N.O.S for you. What is N.O.S? Here's Dick:

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VINTAGE GAG CARTOONS
(1935 – 1964)

Here’s some N.O.S. That’s “New Old Stuff, in this case the stuff is a collection of more vintage gag cartoons clipped from the pages of the great magazines of the 20th century. Perhaps you’re old enough to have seen these cartoons in the magazines in which they were published. Or maybe you came across some of them later in book collections. Now, of course, these days the main source for all sorts of vintage gag cartoons is the Cartoon Clip File, maintained somewhere in New York’s scenic Greenwich Village. Here are some new additions . . . Take a look.

1. HANK KETCHAM. The Saturday Evening Post May 21, 1949.

2. BILL YATES. The Saturday Evening Post May 2, 1964.

3. ROWLAND WILSON. 1000 Jokes Magazine Spring, 1953.

4. RICHARD TAYLOR. Collier’s April 25, 1942.

5. BEN WICKS. True Magazine June, 1964.

6. BOB BARNES. American Magazine July, 1946.

7. CHON DAY. The Saturday Evening Post March 16, 1946.

8. LEONARD DOVE. Look Magazine August 25, 1964.

9. NED HILTON. Life Magazine January, 1935.

10. SIVIC (Sid Gordin) This Week Magazine February 17, 1946.

11. EDWIN LEPPER. Collier’s February 19, 1954.

12. AL KAUFMAN. The Saturday Review October 10, 1953.

13. JERRY MARCUS. 1000 Jokes Magazine October 10, 1953.

14. ALBERT BOIME. American Magazine March, 1955.

15. ALEX GRAHAM. Punch July 8, 1953.

16. IRWIN CAPLAN. The Saturday Evening Post May 21, 1949.

17. WALTER GOLDSTEIN. The Saturday Evening Post April 6, 1957.

18. A.E. BEARD. Punch October 14, 1953.

Monday, September 19, 2022

Video: Mike Luckovich Interview

"One-to-One with John DeDakis" goes one-to-one with Mike Luckovich, the Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His new book is "The Twisted History of the GOP."

Friday, September 16, 2022

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