Monday Cartoon Day
Irwin was another one of the second tier cartoonists, at lest if you consider the New Yorker as the first tier. Cartoonists like Irwin Caplan, Virgil Partch, mort Walker Hank Ketcham, Bo Brown, Chon Day, Dan Tobin, the Berenstainns, Cavalli, Jerry Marcus, Stan hunt, Rob't Day, Ned Hilton, Boltinoff, Colin Alen and others all worked for the better paying clients such as The Saturday Evening Post, Look, True, The American Weekly, This Week and Collier's on a regular basis. Here is sme of Caplan's work for Collier's. Always stylisticly impressive, always a bit funny (but not laugh out loud). He did very well in the forties and fifties and even managed to end up with a daily newspaper cartoon when the marlets dried down.
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Always did enjoy Caplan's linework - it's almost like calligraphy. Very precise and controlled.
I'm not familiar with the newspaper feature he did. Was it a panel or a strip?
His feature was a panel. I got the information from Alan Holtz' book (of course). He mentions two: Famous Laat Words (Hall Syndicate 1956-1962) and Forty-Odd (General Features 1962-1964, wwritten by Pat Bracken and Roderick Lull).
From Wikipedia: Famous Last Wors had actually started as a series in The Saturday Evening Post. I will try and find some samples. Wikipedia also mentions: "his other syndicated feature was 48 States of Mind." Bu that actually was a series of articles (and presumaly a book) by Walter Davenport he illustrate. He dies in 2007.
Thanks! I would love to see those samples, if you can find them.
I am Caplan’s granddaughter. I would love to hear where you got your information, samples, etc., if you still have them.
Hi, it was hard to find this post, since my template did show your reaction but not where it was placed. As I said above, my information came from the always reliable Alan Holtz and the not always so reliable Wikipedia. I too would love to know more about your granddad. Feel free to contact me at geapelde@upcmail.nl
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