Described By:Rachel HFA VX NMTT

Title:Vintage 1936 Girligags By Clarence Gettier Original Art

Description: The popular Girligags comic strip ran from 1924 – 1939 featuring pin up girls and cute cheeky sayings. This one has the companion saying in typed text on the back, it reads “ It isn’t the thought of having been hooked that embarrasses the man,” says Reno Ritzi, “but it is that of being referred to as a poor fish.”

Measurements:
Total size: 5.75 x 7.75 in

Signature:Gettier inscribed on the bottom right corner

Subject matter:Women and men

Condition:The state of preservation of these original illustration drawings that are on average over 65 years old is quite exceptional. Very, very few have any creases, tears or losses to the paper and the ink has remained uniformly vivid thanks to the family’s dry flat storage. Given that these were working drawings from which prints were made the expected edge annotations, highlighting, inscriptions, pasted labels, tack holes, staples, glue residues and scattered corrections can be found variously on the examples as illustrated in the photographs. These all add to the authenticity and immediacy of the Wartime newsroom and pressroom atmosphere, serving to reinforce the iconic status of these rare surviving testimonies to the political illustrator’s art. In a few examples additional notations have been made in the description section of the catalogue text for significant damage.

Provenance:The Prestigious Charles L Howard collection of comic illustration and political cartoon illustrator drawings and original art. Mr. Howard was a railway executive whose life collecting passion was assembling an example from nearly every illustrator at nearly every newspaper beginning WWI onwards to circa WWII. Many of the cartoons dealt with the railroad, trains and railway issues and many U.S. presidents appear in the drawings, other artworks include popular culture themes such as the depression, pin-ups, baseball, and soldiers at war.

Estimated size of package:9 x 5 x 5

Estimated weight of package: 8 oz

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