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Gent, June 1963

Mort Gerberg is still working an can be seen frequently in The New Yorker.

Screw, February 1970

Dude, September 1964

Scene, April 1962

Maurice Sinet

Spree, February 1959

World Encyclopedia of Cartoons S-V

Ronald Searle's St. Trinian's series.

They actually have entire movies on YouTube. Who knew?


Before Ralph Steadman was best known as Hunter Thompson's illustrator, he was a gag cartoonist, mainly for Punch.


Here's a cartoon William Steig did for Look.


Saul Steinberg in Liberty


An example of Sunflower Street, which doesn't seem to have any links online, so once again, I'll consult The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons from which this came.

“SUNFLOWER STREET, the creation of Tom Sims (writer) and Tom Little (artist), started in 1934 as a daily panel for King Features Syndicate. In 1929 Sims went on to write the Thimble Theater strip, and by 1940 Little remained as sole author of the feature. Sunflower Street was unusual in that it had an all-black cast of characters (its closest antecedent was E. W. Kemble's Blackberries). Although not devoid of stereotypes, Sunflower Street was far from being a funny-paper Amos 'n' Andy. The people in it—the gentle but shrewd Pap Henty, the sagacious Granny Lou, the white-bearded Mr. Native, the ne'er-do-well Cousin Bobo, the panel's children, Eenie, Meeny, Miney and Moe—had real character and much charm. The pace was relaxed, and the humor always low-key.

“Nothing really disturbing ever happened on Sunflower Street, and its critics have pointed to the fact as proof of the panel's failings; but the same omission also characterized most small-town features of the 1930s and 1940s. Little poured a great deal of heart into Sunflower Street, as well as many fond remembrances of his rural Tennessee childhood. It was therefore with great reluctance that he finally discontinued it in 1949, due to falling readership.”


Maurice Sinet (Siné) in Lui (NSFW).

Image Shack deemed this forbidden, even though racism is OK with them. If anyone knows of a storage site that doesn't censor, let me know.


T. S. Sullivant


Arthur Szyk cover for Collier's.


From the Monmon series of serigaphs by Hideo Takeda.


Still from Dusan Vukotic's Ersatz, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject in 1961, and probably the inspiration for The Simpsons parody of European cartoons.

World Encyclopedia of Cartoons

When I can't find any links to the artists I feature, I consult this book. It was written in 1980 but that's okay because the artist either died before the book was published or didn't do much since then. I've had it since I was a teenager. It's 676 pages. The editor, Maurice Horn, did all kinds of cartoon and comics history books like The World Encyclopedia of Comics, Sex in the Comics, 100 Years of Newspaper Comics, etc. Most of the art in this book is excerpts and stills from animated films, or in my copy, poor reproductions. However, there are lots of complete cartoons worthy of showing. Here are some which I'll be showing off each Saturday.


This first cartoon, from introductory chapter Caricature and Cartoon is by John T. McCutcheon for the Chicago Tribune in 1920.


By Yvan Le Louarn a/k/a Chaval for Paris-Match


This is one of the few cartoons to not have a caption identifying the author or date.


The syndicated daily panel Citizen Smith by Dave Gerard.


Political cartoon from 1906 by Frederick Opper of Happy Hooligan fame.


Richard Doyle in Punch


The man who brought down the Tweed Ring in New York, and who current political cartoonists would like think they have the impact of, Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly


Art Young in the leftist magazine, The Masses.


Black humor by Siné


Still from Au Fou!(which, according to Babelfish, means “With the insane one!” in French), a 1967 animated cartoon from Japan directed by Yōji Kuri


(NSFW)


The Cow That Watched Trains Go By, a cartoon from 1875 by Caran D'Ache



The Duel with the Fashionable Pointed Shoes by Adolf Oberländer, from 1885



Love Story ca. 1885, by Alexandre Steinlen