Wednesday, January 04, 2023
Can You Identify the Mystery Cartoonist?
The Stripper must be getting old and addle-pated, because I feel like I should know who this is. This sports cartoon ran in the February 6 1928 edition of the Atlanta Georgian, a paper that I just clipped up for its cartooning content. As I was clipping this cartoon out, I was just assuming it would be by Feg Murray. But then I looked at the scrawl of a signature, and that sig sure isn't his.
The style seems sort of familiar, in a generic sorta way, and this was no minor local cartoonist since he was syndicated by King Features, but my neurons refuse to fire properly. Help!
Labels: Mystery Cartoonists
Comments:
What do we make of this 1938 swipe, seen here? A possible lead?
https://www.newspapers.com/image/50169863/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/50169863/
Mark -- If there were no sig I could easily be convinced this is Quin Hall. But Quin had a consistent sig he used, so ... ?
Paul -- If Sords swiped it, he could have saved us a lot of trouble and added an "apologies to" line.
Paul -- If Sords swiped it, he could have saved us a lot of trouble and added an "apologies to" line.
There is a signature. Just under 'th new champ' looks like a Q to me. DanB
# posted by 
: 1/08/2023 6:53 PM
: 1/08/2023 6:53 PM
Will Gould is another good guess based on him being a sports guy for Hearst at this time. But he also had a very identifiable signature (block letters enclosed in a box on box arrangement), and the sig on this cartoon is nothing like that.
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