Showing posts with label 1940. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1940. Show all posts

Friday, July 5, 2019

Otto Soglow: W. C. Fields for President

Fields for President is a 1940 book by W. C. Fields with drawings by cartoonist Otto Soglow. The first edition with its original dust jacket is apparently hard to come by. A quick search reveals that later editions of this book are inexpensive and even ubiquitous. A paperback edition was published as recently as 2016. But this first edition is the one I'd want to have. Note how Soglow has rendered Fields's party affiliation by showing him atop a hybrid of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.





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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

E. Simms Campbell: Not Painting Me

Yesterday we saw an example of how cartoonist E. Simms Campbell was able to suggest "offstage" sexual activity merely by showing us the calm reaction to it of another character, in that case a young woman's well-to-do father surreptitiously observing from upstairs. A 1940 Esquire cartoon ups the ante on this type of suggestive gag by showing us a female nude posing in an artist's studio. The model is clearly alarmed at what she sees that we can't. The caption sets up a sort of negative riddle—describing only what's not going on—readily solved by the reader. No doubt this is one of the magazine's more risqué cartoons, but it's all in the power of the suggestion.
"Why, Mr. DeMunson!  You're not painting me at all!"
E. Simms Campbell
Esquire, 1940, page 56




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 Yes, the year was 1940. Does anyone know the specific month of this issue of Esquire?


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Friday, June 6, 2014

Constantin Alajálov: A.D. 1940

The January 1941 issue of Fortune found Europe thrown into the cataclysmic upheaval of war. Russian-born illustrator Constantin Alajálov provided four allegorical illustrations for the article "A.D. 1940" in the January 1941 issue of Fortune. The subject is America's newfound perceptions of three European nations--Russia, France, Great Britain--and of America herself. The illustrations were probably created about a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Ballet Russe

France

Great Britain

U.S.A.

France
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Great Britain


U.S.A.


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