Hank Barrow was an interesting artist, who worked at the AP bullpen like (and sometimes alongside) Milt Caniff, Mel Graf, Noel Sickles and George Wunder. I have show some of his stuff here earlier, including a long run following Milt Caniff on The Gay Thirties, many of his political cartoon from a private stash I have from 1941 to 1944 and what I consider his best solo work - the illustrations for the late forties Sundy only feature Things To Come. He also did spot illustrations and specialty pieces for AP - some of which I have show as well, but I found a couple new ones. I also cme across his obituary from 1985 and from that, some of his earliest work for a local paper in 1930.
Here are two originals for Things To Come I came across earlier this year. If there is one thing you want to take a look at in my links underneath, it's this delightful and totally forgotten feature.
2 comments:
Hank Barrow was a first rate and, usually, unacknowledged talent.
Thanks for this.
I have just scanned in one of his Ap assignments from my own collection: Bambino, the story of Babe Ruth. Wait till you see that.
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