Thursday, February 01, 2018

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Gag Cartoon Clichés 1947 - 1965 Part 2

Courtesy of Dick Buchanan, here is another selection of gag cartoon clichés. Once again, he gives us three examples per cliché. Despite some of these tropes being pretty darn old hat, there are some funny cartoons below!

Part one of Gag Cartoon Clichés is here.


Thank you and take it away, Dick!

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GAG CARTOON CLICHÉS
1947 – 1965

Here is the second installment of the gag cartoon clichés which were part of the every cartoonist’s arsenal in the mid 20th Century.



THE BOSS and SECRETARY

1. DICK CAVALLI. The Saturday Evening Post November 22, 1952.



2. LEE LORENZ. True Magazine April,1960.  



3. MORT WALKER. American Legion Magazine November, 1959.



 ESKIMOS

1. MICHAEL BERRY. Liberty May 25, 1946.



2. JEFF KEATE. Liberty December 28, 1946.



3. JACK TIPPIT. American Legion Magazine January,1960.




WOMEN DRIVERS

1. SALO ROTH. Judge June, 1947.




2. LAFE LOCKE. American Legion Magazine December, 1953.




3. NED HILTON. Look Magazine June 6, 1961.




PATENT OFFICE

1. GEORGE GATELY. 1000 Jokes Magazine December-February,1965.



2. JOHN MULLIGAN. American Legion Magazine May, 1949.




3. LEO GAREL. 1000 Jokes Magazine Aril-June, 1958.





MARRIAGE COUNSELORS

1. BRAD ANDERSON. The Saturday Evening Post October 15, 1960.



2. BOB BARNES. True Magazine January, 1959.




3. MISCHA RICHTER. Collier’s September 7, 1956.






More from Dick Buchanan's collection of gag cartoons:

From the Dick Buchanan Files: William Steig Gag Cartoons 1946 - 1965

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Favorite Gag Cartoons 1947 - 1958

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Hank Ketcham Gag Cartoons 1944 – 1952

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Hank Ketcham Roughs

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Holiday and Winter Cartoons 1948 - 1960

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon Files: More Cops and Robbers Gag Cartoons 1947 - 1968

Dick Buchanan's Favorite Gag Cartoons 1946 - 1964

From the Dick Buchanan Files: More 1960s Cartoons from PUNCH

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Virgil Parch Part One; VIP in the 1940s

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Virgil Parch Part Two; VIP in the 1950s

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Even More Color Cartoons 1940 - 1956

From the Dick Buchanan Files: "Captions? Who Needs 'Em?" Wordless Gag Cartoons 1947 – 1970

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Orlando Busino Gag Cartoons 1956 - 1966

From the Dick Buchanan Files: CARTOONYFELLERS’ DIGEST, "a 1955 rag for cartoonists by cartoonists"

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Magazine Cartoons from Life and Judge 1931 - 38

From the Dick Buchanan Files: June 1953 Cartoonist's Market Newsletter

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: More Mid-Century Gag Cartoons 1946 - 1964

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: Color Gag Cartoons 1946 - 1956

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon Files: Cops and Robbers Gag Cartoons 1945 - 1968

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon Files: Gahan Wilson: Early Gag Cartoons 1954 - 1964

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: Inkyfellers' Gagzette

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: The Years of Al Ross - 1947 – 1968

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon Files: New Yorker Cartoonists Abroad 1966-1968

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: 1945 - 1962

From the Dick Buchanan Files: "How I Create Humor" from 1950s - 60s Gag Cartoon Insider Journal "The Information Guide"

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: 1950s Color Magazine Gag Cartoons

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: Funny Vintage Magazine Gag Cartoons 1946 - 1963

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon File: Wordless Gag Cartoons 1944-1964

1953 George Booth Drawings for American Legion Magazine

Dick Buchanan: Winter/Christmas/Holiday Gag Cartoons 1940s-60s

Dick Buchanan: Some PUNCH Magazine Cartoons 1948-1963

Dick Buchanan: Gag Cartoon Clip File 1946-64

Dick Buchanan: Gag Cartoon Clip File 1947-62

Dick Buchanan: Some Favorite Magazine Gag Cartoons 1940-60s

Dick Buchanan: Gag Cartoon Clip File 1931-64

2 comments:

Ger Apeldoorn said...

You found a Mort Walker cartoon I haven't got yet. I knew he worked for The American Legion magazine. I even bought a couple of complete years. But I stopped looking after 1953, since I know Mort had stopped drawing new cartoons in 1951/2. Okay, he had had a couple published in 1000 Jokes and Gags/Here! (even into 1954) but they had probably been sold earlier and one of his biggest buyers, Saturday Evening Post stopped around 1952 as well. Now I see I have to go and check AL for the full length.

Dick Buchanan said...

I have one from May, 1953 and two from 1954--May and June. My guess would be they may be unsold cartoons he did earlier. The ones from 1000 Jokes signed "Mort" are likely some of his unsold favorites he could finally publish when he became editor. Just one crackpot's opinion--you are the true expert.