The SATURDAY EVENING POST pages in the '50s were like a Who's Who of cartoonists. All the greats ended up there sooner or later. This book, THE NINE TO FIVERS, is a collection first published in 1962. These cartoons are from the 1964 Popular Library paperback printing. They brought back a lot of memories for me of getting to my parents' subscription copy of the magazine so I could read all of the panel gags. When my parents had read the magazine I cut out all of the cartoons, and had hundreds of them at one time, now all lost. This book is a reminder to me of how much I enjoyed them at the time.
I have a lot more of these to come.
Copyright © 1962 E. P. Dutton Co.
Just wonderful gag cartoons, Harry. So sorry to hear that your SEP gag cartoon clippings file was lost. Ouch!
ReplyDeleteConsidering that The Saturday Evening Post had a conservative reputation (if not politically than at least culturally) these cartoons are downright subversive!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the collective thumbs-up. I appreciate all of you joining in.
ReplyDeleteMike, on collecting: I could fill a warehouse with the things I've lost over the years, including things I've thrown, given away or sold that I wish I had back. But then I already live in a virtual paper museum with less living space each year.