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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

A Trove of Specialty Drawings, Part 2 of 4

Please see yesterday's post for the story behind this large collection of cartoonist specialty drawings. On day two, we'll dip into the humor cartoonists:

Walter Berndt, creator of Smitty and his little brother Herby

Bill Dyer (one of the few actual alumni to appear in the booklet) and Patsy from The Adventures of Patsy


Bill Holman and his creation, Smokey Stover


Bud Fisher and his creation, Mutt and Jeff (art presumably ghosted by Al Smith)

Ernie Bushmiller and his creation, Nancy


Carl Anderson's Henry; Carl was dead before the booklet saw print


Chic Young's Blondie

Clifford McBride's Napoleon, with a one-size-fits-all gag


McEvoy and Striebel's Dixie Dugan offers some unfortunate stereotypical mushmouth vernacular


Lank Leonard's creation, Mickey Finn


Cliff Sterrett's Polly and her Pals


Martin Branner's Denny Dimwit from Winnie Winkle

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2 comments:

  1. Unknown12/02/2014 1:03 PM

    Great stuff!
    Re: Dixie Dugan strip.... the black man looks 'human' at least. Times changing....

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  2. Shade12/03/2014 7:08 AM

    I agree. At least he's looks human. 'Looks like they were trying to have it both ways here. During the '40s, the NAACP started to make noise about the depiction of African-Americans and Africans in the media.

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