The March 1937 installment of Peter Arno's "Side-Show" is definitely a keeper. I'm keeping my copy. The magazine is College Humor. These Arno cartoons must have created a sensation among young readers, but they were never collected and have been lost to popular culture for many decades. My guess, though, is that the people who encountered these drawings when they were coming of age remembered them fondly for life.
"Hurry, dear! Our guests are beginning to arrive!" Peter Arno College Humor, March 1937, p. 18 |
Here's the original art for each of these as seen on a 1985 contact sheet from the Nicholls Gallery:
"Hurry, dear! Our guests are beginning to arrive!" |
"Gosh, I forgot to look at your teeth, didn't I?"
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Note: For those keeping score at home, I am still looking for the published versions of three of the Peter Arno College Humor cartoons consigned to the Nicholls Gallery in 1985. There's also a "rather dumb" Otto Soglow psychoanalysis cartoon that should be in one of these issues as well.
"It's the master's idea—says it keeps them out of the Stork Club." Peter Arno Original art College Humor, c. 1936-1937 |
"It isn't every student I'd let mark her own examination paper, Miss Dawson." College Humor, c. 1936-1937 |
"You may shut off the heater now, Oglethorpe." Peter Arno Original art College Humor, c. 1936-1937 |
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