The Best Defense

Monday Bonus clip.

Let me do a quick new post to make up for the fact that I repeated myself on the previous one. This is a small editorial bij Alfred Andriola. It has been said about Amdriola that he never did anything himself and had assistents for everything. And I can certainly see some of those assistants in some of his work. But he was a greaat president of the National Cartoonists Society together with Mel Casson in the late fifties and a formidable promotor of newspaper comics. As is shown in this piece from 1954.

 

With that I have another newspaper article that is more of the regular promotional stuff. From 1957.

Lahdida.

Monday Advertising Day.

I am selling a lot of Best of the Year cartoon books compiled by Lawrence Lariar. They were a staple in the forties and fifties. What makes the early ones so special is that they contained self written on paragraph bio's of all the cartoonists, usualy with a self portrait even. For Ebay I photographed them all (and I am saving them here). I have 1942 and 1944 so I am still looking for 1943. From 1946 the bio's disappear.

Ha! Not only did I redo a set of images I had already shared... I also chose the same title!

 Well, I'll just leave it up here.

 

Gotto Ketcham All

Monday Easter Surprise. 

 Two posts ago I shred some of Gill Fox' ads in his 'Hank Ketcham stylr" of the late fifties. Around the same time he also did the Sunday filler newspaper strip Bumper to Bumper and  a daily Dennis the menace type panel (only smaller) called Wilbur. These two ads for Larry Graebern's carpet stores seems to have been  one- (or actually two-) off.