Gahan Wilson: The Unquiet Coven

Don't you hate when this happens?

"Could you please make a little less noise?"
Gahan Wilson
Collier's, October 29, 1954

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Note:  You can help support cartoonist Gahan Wilson's medical needs here.

I want to thank Dick Buchanan for once again dipping into his Cartoon Clip Files and finding the perfect cartoon. This post is his 47th contribution to Attempted Bloggery.

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Dan Kilgo: The High Cost of Halloween

The U.S. inflation rate hit a whopping 14.4% in 1947 as the postwar economic expansion got underway. That's why the Saturday Evening Post felt its readers that year would be able to relate to a certain price-conscious Halloween cartoon by Dan Kilgo.

"Can you imagine paying two bucks for a lousy broom like this?"
Dan Kilgo
The Saturday Evening Post, October 18, 1947, page 74

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Note:  Once again I want to thank Dick Buchanan for providing Attempted Bloggery with another gorgeous scan from the celebrated Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files. Dick contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a post entitled "From the Dick Buchanan Files: Color Gag Cartoons 1936 - 1967." Really, it's just like being there.

Today marks cartoonist Dan Kilgo's first appearance on the blog. The cartoon is wonderfully atmospheric, no?


Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:

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The Saturday Evening Post

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Attempted Bloggery's Bargain Counter Index

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Charles Addams Witch's Cauldron

Fred Taraba's website offers for sale this preliminary cartoon sketch in charcoal of witches at a cauldron.  It is, of course, by the legendary Charles Addams, master of the macabre. It has been available for over a year now, so the comment that it's "Just in time for Hallowe'en" is once again accurate.

Charles Addams, “Funny – the recipes never come out looking
like they do in the pictures”

Artist: Charles Addams (1912-1988)

Description: Witches at cauldron

Caption: “Funny – the recipes never come out looking like they do in the pictures”

Publication information: Preliminary drawing for New Yorker cartoon. Apparently not published.

Medium: Charcoal

Size: 17.5 x 14”

Signature: signed, lower right.

Condition: Light horizontal creasing, overall very good, framed.

Comment: Just in time for Hallowe’en… a classic example of the master of the season, Charles Addams.

Price: $1,400.

March 11, 2012 Update:  The price has been reduced to $1,100.

October 18, 2012 Update:  The price has been reduced to $975.

http://www.tarabaillustrationart.com/art73.shtml

Note:  My most recent post about Charles Addams is here.

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