Cartoonist Richard Taylor's New Yorker work will be familiar to many readers here. To date I have found only one cartoon of his in the pages of College Humor. If he published further work in that magazine, as he very likely did, I think it's safe to surmise on the basis of the single cartoon from the March 1938 issue that it was a degree or two less sophisticated than his work for the New Yorker.
Note: The March 1939 number of College Humor is one of more than 5,600 magazines at last count residing in the Steven Boss humor magazine collection at Columbia University. I accessed a very small part of the full collection at the Butler Library's Rare Book and Manuscript Library on March 10, 2016 and I've been going to town with it ever since. Back then the Butler Library was open to the general public during certain hours but for the time being, of course, it is closed altogether. When it does reopen, Curator for Comics and Cartoons Karen Green will be the person who can get you in.
In the meantime, Attempted Bloggery is eager to receive scans or photographs of original art by Richard Taylor as well as obscure published cartoons, illustrations, and the like. More of his work from College Humor would be especially welcome.
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| "Well, Miss Wilson, this is a pleasant surprise!" Richard Taylor College Humor, Vol. 9, No. 3, March 1939, page 9 |
Note: The March 1939 number of College Humor is one of more than 5,600 magazines at last count residing in the Steven Boss humor magazine collection at Columbia University. I accessed a very small part of the full collection at the Butler Library's Rare Book and Manuscript Library on March 10, 2016 and I've been going to town with it ever since. Back then the Butler Library was open to the general public during certain hours but for the time being, of course, it is closed altogether. When it does reopen, Curator for Comics and Cartoons Karen Green will be the person who can get you in.
In the meantime, Attempted Bloggery is eager to receive scans or photographs of original art by Richard Taylor as well as obscure published cartoons, illustrations, and the like. More of his work from College Humor would be especially welcome.
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