It's been a while since I've shared the cartoon feature Peter Arno's "Side-Show" which appeared in the magazine College Humor for maybe a couple of years in the 1930s, mostly 1936 to 1937. Recently, I've obtained four issues with Arno content and another three are on the way. This one is September of 1936. Arno knew how to give the college crowd what it liked, just as he did with the upscale readers at the far tonier New Yorker.
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| "I'd like a picture of my boy." "Psst, Granville! You've ripped something!" "I think she's in trouble again." Peter Arno College Humor, September 1936, pp. 10-11 |
The "Side-Show" format gave Arno the freedom to produce three different types of cartoons for the two-page spread. Here we have a man who misunderstands the paparazzi, a sophomoric—if you will—cartoon about hurdling, and a rather sophisticated take on the tribulations of a very small dog. Arno's technique seems effortless; it probably wasn't. You can see why, throughout his career, he was an extremely popular cartoonist.
Note: And he's still popular on this blog. I'm ready to post examples of obscure Peter Arno cartoons published in off-the-beaten-track publications like College Humor. Just send me images of what you've got and tell me what you know. And, for heaven's sake, don't rip anything.
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