Cartoonist Garrett Price (1896-1979) started working for the Chicago Tribune in 1916 and for The New Yorker in 1925. He drew the comic strip White Boy from 1933 to 1936. In 1940, he moved east to Westport, Connecticut.
A hand-drawn Christmas card of his currently listed on eBay features caricatures of fellow cartoonists at the Tribune. The biggest names of the era—John McCutcheon, Carey Orr, and Gaar Williams—are not to be found here. Those cartoonists labeled with only one name, or with a nickname, aren't easily identified. Gary Sheahan (1893-1978) is helpfully indicated by both first and last name. Today he has his work archived in the Chicago History Museum here. In 1942, he was to do a wraparound cover for The Line Book, published by the Tribune, fifteen years after The New Yorker's Peter Arno had that very honor.
The eBay seller of the Price drawing notes that it had been given to a fellow Tribune cartoonist, and that it bears evidence of having been kept in a scrapbook. It is dated by the seller to circa 1927, plausibly enough.
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| Garrett Price eBay listing accessed February 12, 2022 |
Note: I would appreciate hearing from anyone who can identify Walt, Gross, Lundy, Cagh, Cy, Milt, or Wag of the Chicago Tribune.
Additional art by Garrett Price, just Price to his fellow Chicago cartoonists, is welcome for future blog posts.
Here's that Line Book cover I mentioned by Gary Sheahan:
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| Gary Sheahan The Line Book, 1942 |
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