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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

A Syd Hoff Salute

If Peter Arno was The New Yorker's quintessential elite Manhattan cartoonist, Syd Hoff was the cartoonist who best represented the working-class sensibilities of the Bronx. Back in the day, my own family members were New Yorkers born and bred in the Bronx, and so it's fitting that today Attempted Bloggery begins a long-overdue salute to the great Syd Hoff. But first let's have him give us a salute in an original drawing right out of the pages of a personally-inscribed copy of his 1944 collection Feeling No Pain. This is how a salute is done in the Bronx, at least without the Cheer.

Feeling No Pain, 1944
Inscribed "April 1945
Very best wishes
and greetings to
my good friends
the Tafts
from
Syd Hoff"

Syd Hoff
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Feeling No Pain, 1944
Inscribed "April 1945
Very best wishes
and greetings to
my good friends
the Tafts
from
Syd Hoff"

Note: Be sure to catch up on your reading about Syd Hoff on the Syd Hoff website here and on Ink Spill here.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Book Review: Feeling No Pain by Syd Hoff

Today cartoonist Syd Hoff would have been 100 years old. I really do like his work, particularly the cartoons for the New Yorker, Esquire, and other publications. These days I would imagine he is best known for the children's book Danny and the Dinosaur (1958).

Syd Hoff, Feeling No Pain, 1944, Cover

Syd Hoff, Feeling No Pain, 1944, Title Page

http://hairygreeneyeball.blogspot.com/2008/11/syd-hoff.html

Syd Hoff, Feeling No Pain , Back Cover

Feeling No Pain: An Album of Cartoons (1944)
By Syd Hoff

As a cartoonist, Syd Hoff brought a Bronx working-class sensibility to his gag drawings, something The New Yorker needed to balance out some of its early humor about snooty society ladies and gentlemen. He published cartoons in many other venues as well.

His style was considered by some too similar to that of the great William Steig, but while I see perhaps some resemblance, I really don't think they can be readily mistaken for one another. Hoff had his own distinctive brand of humor and this 1944 collection presents what I think are some of his best gags.