Der Grosse Mordillo

Cartoons from DER GROSSE MORDILLO. Scans are by Dave Miller, who also provided scans for color Mordillo cartoons here.

Thanks, Dave!

DER GROSSE MORDILLO Copyright © 1974 Guillermo Mordillo

William Steig's Punch and Judy

An excerpt from CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE by William Steig.

William Steig, circa 1930s.

CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE By William Steig, Duell, Sloan and Pearce. First edition. Copyright © 1959, 1961 The New Yorker Magazine. Copyright © 1963 William Steig.

Harry Shorten was a publisher who started out as a cartoonist in the early 1940s. "There Oughta Be A Law" was his version of the successful "They'll Do It Every Time" panel by Jimmy Hatlo. In the 1940s he worked at M.L.J. Comics doing features like The Shield, and then moved on to Archie. He founded Tower Comics in the 1960s, as well as being a publisher of paperback books. Shorten retired in 1982, and died at age 76 in 1991.

THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW, Belmont Books, 1969. Copyright © 1969 Harry Shorten