Saturday, March 30, 2024

 

One-Shot Wonders: Every Day is April Fools' Day by Archie Gunn, 1897

 

This is a public service announcement: on Monday beware offers of tinned nuts, requests for you to fetch implausible seeming items, notices of lottery winnings, and check mirrors often for "Kick Me" signs on your back. 

Here we have Archie Gunn's take on April Fools Day, seen through his bread-and-butter lens of the pretty girl cartoon. And he certainly did a nice job on this New York Journal funnies section cover. I also love these early Journal covers for their contributor lists (see upper left), giving pride of place to the Journal's impressive bullpen of writers and cartoonists.

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