On Halloween I had the privilege of posting Joel Jacobus's images of a scrapbook of vintage Charles Addams cartoons from The New Yorker. At the end of the scrapbook was a bit of a mystery, a small clipped Addams drawing not from The New Yorker with the caption ...slow heating up? without quotation marks. Was it an obscure gag cartoon or a fragment of an advertisement?
...slow heating up? Charles Addams |
Well, now we know. Yesterday, Jeff Nelson came forward with the 1957 advertisement from the Saturday Evening Post that included this Addams art as well as art by three other New Yorker cartoonists: Claude Smith, William Steig, and Richard Taylor. The product is Housepower, an electrical industry-sponsored group promoting solutions to the common problems of inadequate household wiring and outlets.
Charles Addams Claude Smith William Steig Richard Taylor Somebody ought to tell them about full Housepower The Saturday Evening Post, March 16, 1957, page 82 |
Charles Addams Ed Nofziger William Steig Richard Taylor Advertisement for Sanforized shirts The Saturday Evening Post, August 22, 1953, page 46 |
Note: My thanks go to Joel Jacobus for providing the Addams scrapbook cartoon mystery and to Jeff Nelson for solving it.
The full Halloween post about the Charles Addams scrapbook may be seen here.
Take advantages of the wisdom of crowds. If you've got a cartoon mystery concerning a New Yorker cartoonist, perhaps Attempted Bloggery can help solve it. You never know.
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