Those Whacky Cartoonists

Saturday Cathing Up Day. 

There has never been a lot of information published about cartoonists. A little bio here and there, a few biographies of the bigger ones. The Stripper's Guide has a few decent pieces about a few by the incomperable Alex Jay, but that's it. Here is a piece in some magazine I found on The Internet Archives from the Chicago Daily News 1945-01-07.

 

 

And here are two pages from the 1947 october issue of American Legion. 

 

And ad by Mort Walker in Art Direction (from The Internet Archive):

And finally the third, fifth and sixth installment of a series from Publisher and Publisher in july, September andNovember 1959 (also from the Internet Archive):

Good One

Friday Adventure Day. This romantic pirate strip was so well distributed that it is somwhat know to many fans and collectors. Although it was credited to the unknown artist Hale Skelly and written by his wife Hale, most people also know that she was helped by Secret Agent Corrigan (and comic book) writer Archie Goodman. I gathered a long run of Sundays of this strip, not all of them completely clean. But I hope it is enough to get a feel for it.