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Monday, December 04, 2023

Obscurity of the Day: A New Worry Every Day

 




Carl "Mort" Mortison (1910-1963) was reportedly a cartoonist-in-residence at the Waterbury Republican-American for over forty years. In addition to editorial cartoons, he penned a humor panel called A New Worry Every Day. Unfortunately beyond that my crystal ball gets decidedly blurry. 

The panel is mentioned in Mortison's obituary, so I assume it ran for a long time, but my only samples are from 1940. Based on the very flimsy evidence I have in my files, I think it might have been a replacement for a cartoon quiz feature Mortison did titled Lester G.'s Kartoon Kwizz, for which I have examples earlier that same year. 

Does anyone have access to online archives or the microfilm of this Waterbury paper to fill us in on Mortison's feature, or features?

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3 comments:

  1. EOCostello12/04/2023 9:28 PM

    Some interesting stuff here: apparently, there was an auction of Mortison artwork earlier this year, but the items didn't sell. https://timsauctions.com/auction/220-31st-annual-cabin/lot-298a-carl-l/

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  2. EOCostello12/04/2023 9:30 PM

    There's also a current auction on eBay that appears to show a "New Worry Every Day" panel from some time in the mid to late 1950s. https://www.ebay.com/itm/296073929048

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  3. Allan Holtz12/05/2023 7:44 AM

    Great catch there; yes, I would agree that's gotta be 50s. We'll call it strong circumstantial proof that the panel ran a very long time in Waterbury.

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