George Sixta: Rivets at the Thanksgiving Table

For the Thanksgiving holiday, Dick Buchanan dipped into his cartoon clip files and found a long-forgotten panel by George Sixta. It is a 1949 example of the Rivets feature he created for the Saturday Evening Post back in 1944. It was later to become a syndicated newspaper feature. Here Sixta provides us with an accomplished overhead view of the Thanksgiving table. Rivets alone fails to appreciate the solemnity of the moment.

George Sixta

Rivets

The Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1949, page 103

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Note:  My thanks to Dick Buchanan, who today makes his thirty-seventh contribution to the blog just one day after his thirty-sixth. Dick maintains the superb Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files. He also contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, just this week a new post entitled "From the Dick Buchanan Files: Gag Cartoon Clichés Part 8 1946 - 1956."

Dick also notes that John Ruge had a competing dog panel in Collier's called Clancy, about an Irish Setter. 

For those keeping score, this is George Sixta's first appearance on the blog.


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