Hmm.. Maybe This Is A Little Too Much..

Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1945

Beautiful covers by kinda forgotten cartoonist Don Herold an early master of minimalism in cartooning a lot of his drawings take whatever is being depicted and boil them down to the simplest shapes to near stick figure proportions but you can tell he knows how to exaggerate the simplicity to make good gags.

Concept drawings by Mel Shaw for Disney’s THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (1986).

I was 10. Across the street from us lived two beautiful twins. Dark hair, eyes as blue as robin’s eggs, long legs. They were older and usually hung out with my brother, but maybe he was sick that day or something, because it was just the twins and me in the theatre—two ravishing girls and in between them a kid with the biggest grin in the history of mankind on his stupid face. I was glowing radioactively. Jackie Wilson’s “I Get the Sweetest Feeling” was a hit I remember. Everything aligned, and the universe sang to me a little.

Anne Anderson, The Mammoth Wonder Book, The Travelling Companions, 1930s

1928

This punchline for this gag is so good. Peak comics. Simply peak comics.

Ernesto Garcia Cabral

The Independent Record, Helena, Montana, January 3, 1926

By John Held Jr.