Dick Buchanan delves back seventy-two years in his Cartoon Clip Files to bring us a postwar Mother's Day gag by cartoonist Don Tobin. The baby boom began in 1946, just two years before the Saturday Evening Post published this cartoon. Dick writes, "Don Tobin was a Disney animator who left after the 1941 strike, as did Partch, Ketcham, Dedini and others, to become a very successful gag cartoonist."
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| Don Tobin The Saturday Evening Post, May 8, 1948 Scan by Dick Buchanan |
Note: My thanks to Dick Buchanan for his fifty-fourth contribution to Attempted Bloggery. Dick maintains the invaluable Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files. He also contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a scholarly post entitled "From the Dick Buchanan Files: Puck Magazine Cartoons 1879 - 1890." I, for one, learned a lot. Don Tobin is brand new to this blog. Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives: 03253 |