During the heyday of TV Guide magazine, TV Jibes was a popular feature, consisting of television-themed cartoons created by some leading practitioners of the art. A dozen pages of these cartoons were collected in A Treasury of TV Jibes, which was included as an insert with the magazine. Hence there is no price on the cover. Alas, there is also no copyright date.
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Johnny Carson
Ronald Searle
TV Jibes
Scan by Tom Bloom |
Even without a date of publication, we know TV Jibes couldn't have appeared before Ronald Searle's TV Guide cover of 1968 featuring Johnny Carson, and most likely it didn't appear immediately afterward either. Hence, a reasonable estimate for the publication date is 1970.
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Johnny Carson
Ronald Searle
TV Guide, August 31-September 6, 1968 |
Here then is the rest of this issue of TV Jibes, the whole kit and kaboodle, as heroically scanned by Tom Bloom.
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TV Jibes The Young Set
J. B. Handelsman Claude Smith
Henry Martin Charles Rodrigues
Charles Rodrigues Chon Day
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TV Jibe: Debatable Tactics TV Jibes
Brian Savage Copper[?] Hageman[?]
Al Kaufman |
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TV Jibes TV Jibe: The Younger Set
Charles E. Martin Sidney Harris
Henry Martin
Charles Rodrigues |
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TV Jibe: It Must Be Football My Fellow Americans...
Paul Peter Porges Brian Savage
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TV Jibe: And Now a Pause for the Program... TV Jibe: An Evening at Home
Sidney Harris Charles Rodrigues
Paul Peter Porges
Larry [Terence Parkes] |
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TV Jibes TV Jibe: Poor Reception
Charles Rodrigues Larry [Terence Parkes]
Mort Gerberg Joseph Farris
Val Charles Rodrigues |
Note: First off, my sincere thanks to Tom Bloom for this contribution. As I've already called his scanning heroic, I haven't left myself too much else to add. This is Tom's seventeenth contribution to Attempted Bloggery.
We are not alone. Postino writes informatively about this very TV Jibes cartoon booklet in the blog Insomnia Notebook here.
Cover artist Ronald Searle's extensive TV Guide work is surveyed in Perpetua, the Ronald Searle Tribute blog, here. There's no mention of TV Jibes, though, but that could change.
Numerically speaking, Ronald Searle's centenary closed on March 3, which marked 101 years since the artist's birth. Nevertheless, since the pandemic interrupted any proper recognition of his achievement, I have taken the lead from the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany, and will continue to celebrate his centenary. Indefinitely.
Three of the cartoonists shown above in the pages of TV Jibes are unfamiliar to me. I will tentatively identify them as Copper, Hageman, and Val, although I am not sure I'm reading the first two signatures correctly. Does anybody recognize the cartoonists or know a little something about them? Do tell.
Also--can anyone tell me with which issue this insert was distributed? I'm kind of a stickler for these things, especially when they're of no importance.
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