Smilby: Breakfast Reading

Dick Buchanan has gone into his vast Cartoon Clip Files and found a vintage Valentine's Day cartoon from Punch by Smilby (1927-2009). Smilby is a pen name for British cartoonist Francis Wilford-Smith. Dick writes, "In America, his cartoons appeared in the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. In 1960 he began a successful relationship with Playboy magazine, for which he produced more than 350 full-page color cartoons."

Smilby
Punch, February 12, 1958, page 232

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Note:  This is Dick Buchanan's fifty-second contribution to Attempted Bloggery, so at last we are playing with a full deck. Now on to the jokers. Dick, of course, maintains the peerless Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files which he gradually has been turning into a digital archive. He also contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a post entitled "From the Dick Buchanan Files: Even More Cops and Robbers Cartoons 1939 - 1970." Mike calls Dick "the great magazine cartoon connoisseur of our time." I second the motion.

Attempted Bloggery seeks works published and unpublished by Smilby that are new to the internet.

Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:

Valentine's Day

Smilby

Punch

Dick Buchanan

Attempted Bloggery's Well-Read Index

03167