Sports: Indoor and Outdoor

I could care less about sports (is it could or couldn't? Whichever one means “who gives a shit?”). I just see a bunch of flying colors when they're on the screen. I never even know when the Superbowl is. If you were to show me a picture of a strong person and falsely tell me they were a professional athlete, I'd believe you. Mention a team name, I won't even know what sport that is. That said, I like these cartoons.

These cartoons, from Comic Art In America in 1959, represent what was prominent on the sports pages of newspapers at that time. The captions to all these cartoons say more than I ever could.

As much as I like these cartoons, they still haven't convinced me to care about sports.

Herewith the captions:

Floyd Johnson never reached the top, but HYPE IGOE did. The cross-hatching was almost an IGOE trademark.

Sketches of Tim Hegarty and Kid Lavigne, by the great DORGAN, from the New York Evening Journal in December 1904.

TAD DORGAN once more. This Outdoor Sports was drawn shortly before he died.

RUBE GOLDBERG's preview of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. This was done fifteen years after he left San Francisco, and the figures at the right give some idea of the kind of thing he had been doing all along.

Four immortals drawn by BOB EDGREN for the New York World in 1927. He used many techniques; this was soft pencil.

Some of EDWARD WINDSOR KEMBLE's baseball figures, from Harper's Weekly of July 28, 1900.

A typical Believe it or Not, this one from 1935. Two of the items are on sports,ROBERT RIPLEY's first love.

The lost days of fistic glory: comment by BURRIS JENKINS. JR., on the Ross-McLarnin fight, September 1934.

BILL CRAWFORD helps the Dodgers toward victory.

Golfing luminaries as drawn by PETE LLAZUNA in 1931.

[BELOW LEFT]WILLARD MULLIN's comment on the desertion of the Dodgers and the Giants.

[BELOW RIGHT] Another MULLIN. His bums—originally Brooklyn Dodger fans—are now classic.

LOU DARVAS, in the Cleveland Press, comments on the infrequency of Floyd Patterson's heavyweight title defenses. 1958.

MURRAY OLDERMAN's comment on Bill Veeck, a startlingly individualistic baseball executive.

A group of sketches by KARL HUBENTHAL for the Los Angeles Examiner. Hubenthal does editorial cartoons for the same newspaper.

This is one of TOM PAPROCKI's great cartoons for the AP. Pace, Variety, and good drawing. Drawn in April, 1937.

JOHN PIEROTTI looks askance at the complicated struggle for the middleweight championship.

LEO's version of the old Brooklyn Dodger fan.

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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.