Jimmy James Swinnerton Mr. Jack Cat Cartoon Comic Strip Swinnerton is an Extremely Well Known Artist Whose Southwest Landscape Paintings Often Bring in the $40,000 to $60,000 range Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description: Jimmy James Swinnerton “The Escapades of Mr. Jack” 6 Panel Cartoon Comic Strip from the prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection exhibited.
Signed in bottom sixth panel with penciled title top margin, print title label bottom margin and ink and penciled inscriptions on the reverse with Charles L. Howard exhibition labels: Avoca School Wilmette, Ill 1942, and Howard School, Wilmette, Ill 1942.

A key late 19C artist, Jimmy James Swinnerton studied at San Francisco School of Design and is an extremely well known artist whose Southwest Landscape paintings often bring in the $40,000 to $60,000 range.

Swinnerton experimented with continuity, this script was originally called the “Naughty Adventures of the Vivacious Mr. Jack”.
We are very proud to present this historical example of the of the cartoonist’s community. Some of Mr. jack’s deeds were considered unsuitable for juvenile readers. Last appearance in Sunday comics 1904, revived in editorial pages 1912 to 1919. This work with Howard exhibition label.

Winning bidder will receive a Certificate of Authenticity with the drawing.

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 11.50 by 10.50 image site, 12.50 by 11.50 overall

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Estimated Weight of Package: 7 lbs.

Package size: 26 x 26 x 2

Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number 566 in the Charles L. Howard Collection, one of two hundred lots that will be continuously added to this online catalogue on a daily basis between today and the day of sale. The first 100 to 125 lots will be Important Original Illustration Art and the second 100 to 125 lots are comprised of Original Railroad Art. Please check our listings regularly during the coming days for many exciting discoveries.
Low & High Ests: 800 1000 Starting Bid: 100

Light toning to outer edges. 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, highlightings, 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, however the condition sensitive collector is encouraged to contact our sale expert for additional lot details in advance of the auction date.