A forgotten magazine cartoon by James Trembath was posted by Michael Maslin on his Ink Spill blog ten days ago after fellow cartoonist Paul Karasik brought it to his attention. The drawing had appeared in the November 18, 1929 issue of Judge and lampooned an ongoing series of manhole drawings by Otto Soglow that were appearing in The New Yorker at the time. The impeccably illustrated discussion appears here.
Trembath was born in Michigan in 1888. He was a regular contributor of covers and cartoons to Judge and other publications, but his work never appeared in Harold Ross's New Yorker. His art isn't that familiar today, but I can share here a couple of obscure cartoons from College Humor, Volume 11, No. 1, the January 1940 issue.
Compared with the sendup of Soglow, I find these to be a little disappointing. Of course, they reflect the attitudes of their time filtered through the sophomoric lens of a magazine aimed at the college crowd:
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| "Why, no, ma'am—what makes you think there's a cop in the kitchen?" James Trembath College Humor, January 1940, p. 13 |
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| "It's no use, Inspector, she won't stop talking." James Trembath College Humor, January 1940, p. 19 |
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