Thursday, November 20, 2025

Barbara Shermund: Working Girl

Yesterday at Heritage Auctions, a fine original cartoon by Barbara Shermund was sold. It's a color piece from her syndicated panel series that appeared in "The Cheering Section" of Pictorial Review for June 1, 1947.

"We had a terrible argument. I told him lots of girls kept right on with their jobs after marriage."
Barbara Shermund
Original art
Pictorial Review, June 1, 1947

The online bidding started strong almost two days before the live bidding.

Barbara Shermund
Heritage Auctions listing accessed November 17, 2025, almost two days before the sale


Barbara Shermund
Heritage Auctions item description


Sold!




January 22, 2025 Update:  Yesterday, D. D. Degg of The Daily Cartoonist posted a black-and-white scan of the newsprint cartoon from newspapers.com dated June 1, 1947. I have corrected the publication date above accordingly.






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