Cartoonist Reamer Keller published two gags in the March 1939 issue of College Humor. The first is set in a classroom and is a joke about the cliche of giving an apple to the teacher. Written on the chalk board is puss and the rhyme schus, a reference to College Humor cartoonist Adolph Schus. On the other side of the dunce cap are the words pin, bin, and linn. Linn must be a name; possibly it is a reference to cartoonist Bandel Linn, but was he on College Humor's cartooning roster at the time?
The second cartoon shows a sultan playing favorites:
Note: The March 1939 issue of College Humor referenced above is one of more than 5,600 magazines in the Steven Boss humor magazine collection at Columbia University. I photographed these two cartoons and quite a few others in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on March 10, 2016. The Butler Library opened in 1934 just five years before this issue of College Humor that it now holds was published. In addition to the Boss collection, the Butler Library houses a couple of million other volumes. It is currently closed until further notice, but when it does reopen Curator for Comics and Cartoons Karen Green can give members of the general public access to the collection if they bring her an apple.
Attempted Bloggery seeks additional published work by Reamer Keller, from College Humor and elsewhere. Today I'm sharing the final College Humor Keller cartoons I was able to photograph at the RBML. Fortunately I still have work by a few other cartoonists to share.
I'd like to have some sort of corroboration regarding Keller's reference to Linn or to hear alternative possibilities.
External Links:
Reamer Keller's Wikipedia Entry
Reamer Keller on Lambiek Comiclopedia
Stripper's Guide: "Reamer Keller, Portsmouth Gift To The Pen-And-Ink Brigade, Tells How" by Wayne Paulson (Portsmouth Times, October 24, 1937)
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| "Only 23 apples! Who's absent today?" Reamer Keller College Humor, Volume 9, No. 3, March 1939, page 23 |
The second cartoon shows a sultan playing favorites:
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"You're holding a few of my wives for shoplifting—I'd like to bail out the tall blonde."
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Note: The March 1939 issue of College Humor referenced above is one of more than 5,600 magazines in the Steven Boss humor magazine collection at Columbia University. I photographed these two cartoons and quite a few others in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on March 10, 2016. The Butler Library opened in 1934 just five years before this issue of College Humor that it now holds was published. In addition to the Boss collection, the Butler Library houses a couple of million other volumes. It is currently closed until further notice, but when it does reopen Curator for Comics and Cartoons Karen Green can give members of the general public access to the collection if they bring her an apple.
Attempted Bloggery seeks additional published work by Reamer Keller, from College Humor and elsewhere. Today I'm sharing the final College Humor Keller cartoons I was able to photograph at the RBML. Fortunately I still have work by a few other cartoonists to share.
I'd like to have some sort of corroboration regarding Keller's reference to Linn or to hear alternative possibilities.
External Links:
Reamer Keller's Wikipedia Entry
Reamer Keller on Lambiek Comiclopedia
Stripper's Guide: "Reamer Keller, Portsmouth Gift To The Pen-And-Ink Brigade, Tells How" by Wayne Paulson (Portsmouth Times, October 24, 1937)
Daily Reamer
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