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Hello Buddies, September 1954

Sir Knight, circa 1958

Ace, March 1964

Al Ross
Hello Buddies, March 1944

Gluyas Williams
Cavalcave, October 1945

Fun House, February 1979
I think the joke is that she was a baby twenty-five years ago, that's why she's topless and in diapers, but that would also mean she wore high heels and a fur coat as a baby. It was published by Humorama so I know they often would buy the drawings and use them in different magazines with different captions. I just made up “When you see me you'll shit your pants. I know I will.”

Gaze, August 1959

Good Humor, October 1964

Bill Wenzel
Knight, March 1968

Laff, December 1948

Man, April 1966

Man, October 1971

Playboy, March 1970

Comic Art In America: Panel Cartoons

Cartoons from the 1959 book Comic Art in America by Stephen Becker, surveying the history of the medium up until that time. These are from the chapter A Century of Magazines: From Corny Almanacks to The New Yorker

. The captions for these cartoon say:

Room and Bored, created by GENE AHERN after he relinquished Our Boarding House. (1957)

BILL FREYSE

An Out Our Way by J. R. Williams [the Elder], reprinted by NEA in 1959. Machine shops were one of his first loves.

A GLUYAS WILLIAMS panel from the thirties. His dissections of Suburbia were delicate and accurate.

DENYS WORTMAN's view of humanity—unvarnished but compassionate. (1935)

The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All Trains—sooner or later. (1949)

Mr. Bang explodes again. Note the delighted caddie. (1954)

Katrinka in action. Even the cat is disinctive, and the little boy in the foreground is obviously ecstatic. (1954)

Two byLICHTY. Seemingly slapdash, the style suits the attitude perfectly.

The Franciscan virtues in action . A Brother Juniper by FATHER JUSTIN McCARTHY, from More Brother Juniper. (1958)

A poignant sequence from DORGAN's satirical serial, Silk Harry's Divorce Suit.

[LEFT]TAD DORGAN's sidelight on crapshooters, in an Indoor Sports of 1929.

When a Feller Needs a Friend, a BRIGGS panel from 1922.

Movie of a Woman Trying to Get a Line on a Phone Conversation, a CLARE BRIGGS panel from 1925. an obvious variant of Briggs's later Mr. And Mrs.

The Days of Real Sport, a BRIGGS panel from 1922.

The last three panels of a Sunday Mr. And Mrs. by CLARE BRIGGS. (1921)

H. T. WEBSTER's Caspar Milquetoast in a panel.

Another WEBSTER panel. This one entitled Bridge.

World Encyclopedia of Cartoons T-Z

Here's the last of The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, the 1980 book I got these from. I'm sure I missed some (that are scannable), so I'll probably go back to it at some later date.

Hilda Terry's feature Teena


Arne Ungermann


Still from Duṥan Vukotić's Concerto for Sub-Machine Gun



Werner Wejp-Olsen (WOW)


Gluyas Williams


Adolphe Willette, 1903


Artist unknown, it was between the W and Y sections. Is it supposed to represent the letter X or is it just a nice drawing?


The Yarns of Captain Fibb, for Judge in 1909


Bill Yates, for Saturday Evening Post


There was a syndicated strip of Yogi Bear in the early '60s.


Pino Zacarria (“Zac”)'s Kirie and Leison.


Heinrich Zille for Simplicissimus

CARTOON CAVALCADE 1939-1941

Continuing more from this 400+ page tome:

Richard Taylor (see write-up here), Saturday Evening Post 1939


Two-pager by Gluyas Williams , Fellow Citizens 1940



Otto Soglow, Collier's 1941


William Steig,Collier's 1941


Crockett Johnson, Collier's 1940


Douglas Berstedt, Collier's 1940


Ed Nofziger, Saturday Evening Post 1939


Dave Breger, PM 1941


Don Freeman, Don Freeman's Newsstand 1941


Larry Reynolds, Collier's 1941

As per The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons in 1980:

Larry Reynolds (1912-?) American cartoonist born in Mount Vernon, NY. Larry Reynolds went into advertising and illustration work after graduating high school. He sold his first cartoon to Collier's in 1932. His work subsequently appeared in most major publications of the time, including the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, and the New York daily PM.

Reynolds was drafted into the army during World War II and subsequently created his famous weekly panel Butch, for Look magazine (his first cartoons there were signed “Corporal Larry Reynolds”). Butch was a burly but lovable burglar who helped little old ladies across the street, kept apologizing to intended victims, and generally made a mockery of the profession of robbery, much to the disgust of his diminutive accomplice, Slug. Butch was Reynolds's most enduring feature, lasting until the demise of Look in 1971.

In recent years Reynolds has been freelancing with mixed success. He prefers to use wash for his cartoons, and his style is clear and airy. His humor, soft in tone and with malice toward none, has made him a favorite of many.


Bo Brown, Collier's 1941


Paul Webb, Collier's 1941

As the Encyclopedia said:

Paul Webb (1902-?) American cartoonist and illustrator born in Towanda, PA. Paul Webb grew up wanting to be an illustrator and greatly admiring the work of Wallace Morgan. He took his art training in the 1920s at the School of Industrial Arts and the Academy of Fine Art, both in Philadelphia. While in school he won scholarships that allowed him two summer-long trips to wander throughout Europe. His art training was interrupted by a time at home caring for his ill mother. During this time he began freelancing magazine cartoons to the old Life, the New Yorker, Judge, Collier's, and College Humor magazines Once The Mountain Boys, which Webb had created in 1934, became popular, the feature took all the cartoonist's time.

In the 1930s, Esquire syndicated the feature to newspapers. Two Collections of The Mountain Boys were published in that period: Comin' Around the Mountain (1939) and Keep 'em Flying (1941). In the mid-1960s, Paul Webb briefly drew the hillbillies for Columbia Features Syndicate. A paperback collection of The Mountain Boys was published at the time.

Paul Webb is now semi-retired. He devotes part of his time to giving humorous after-dinner speeches on the banquet circuit; his topic:”A Few Ill-Chosen Words About Nothing in Particular”.