Adding To The Fun

Monday Cartoon day.

Just as comic strip as were a staple of Sunday newspapers in the forties nd fifties, cartoon ads were very frequently used in magazines. Often using the same artists that were doing the cartoons in that same magazine. Of course Virgil Partch was a favorite, adding a sense of absrudity to the ofen dull ads. Sam Cobean ,a great cartoonist who dies too young in the early fifties, was used a lot as well.

Unforgettable

Monday Cartoon Day.

Two great cartoonists from the forties: Sam Cobean died young (in the early fifties) and Henry Boltinoff went on to do lots and lots of gag pages for DC.

Woofday Adverwoofing

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Sam Cobean was a wonderful and well respected cartoonist, who dies too young. He was one of the few cartoonists who worked for the sophisticated New Yorker and for the more bourgeois Saturday Evening Post/Colliers crowd. Although he did a couple of books during his lifetime, a lot of his gags remain unreprinted and that's a shame. Like most popular cartoonists of his period (early postwar) he did a lot of advertising as well, with just as much result. I think the Ken-L series survived his death in the early fifties. In a world where cartoon cats are everywhere, his dogs are refreshing.

Draw It Again, Sam

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Sam Cobean would have one of the greats if he hadn't died in 1951 in a car accident. In fact, he was one of the greats when he lived. He sold cartoons to the top tier of magazines, from the New Yorker to Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. He did illustration work for those magazines as well and was asked frequently to illustrate advertising campaigns. His one book The Naked Eye still sells well. One of the best running was his series for Ken-L Ration, for which he did many.