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Lawrence Lariar contributes two wartime gag cartoons to a page in the July 1942 College Humor. Syd Hoff is there on the page as well, wit...

Readers of Michael Maslin's Ink Spill  learned last week that over the course of his career cartoonist Alan Dunn (1900-1974) published...

National Doctors' Day comes around every year on March 30. I always assumed the date was chosen for its proximity to April Fools' Da...

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...

Cartoonist Reamer Keller's sole contribution to the April 1938 College Humor is a caveman gag with a prehistoric double entendre. Wha...

In the February 1938 issue of College Humor, cartoonist Reamer Keller weighs in with a carnival gag. "This makes the fifth time t...

Two gags by cartoonist Reamer Keller are in the October 1937 number of  College Humor. The setting for the first is a police pullover.   A...

Cartoonist Reamer Keller had but one gag in the September 1937 issue of College Humor. It's good to know when it's okay to break ...

Maybe it isn't the cleverest pun ever coined, but maybe this cartoon set in a fancy restaurant is still good enough for those undemandi...

What sort of gags did cartoonist Reamer Keller create for the bright young crowd who perused the College Humor issue of May 1937? Why, hi...

In the July 1942 issue of College Humor, cartoonist Syd Hoff published the single-page feature I Married an Angel. You see,   "Jeane...

Syd Hoff's three gag cartoons in the March 1939 issue of College Humor have one thing in common: strong-willed characters. In the fir...