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Midpacifican Military Cartoon - WWII -

Artists: Bourke Sweeney (Penciller) , Bourke Sweeney (Inker)

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Title:	Midpacifican Military Cartoon - WWII -
Artist:	Bourke Sweeney (Penciller)
Artist:	Bourke Sweeney (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	216
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	11/26/2022
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Around 2016, I wandered into an antique store on Long Island where I found a pile of art pages that had recently been offered for sale from the notebook of Staff Sergeant Bourke J Sweeney (1919 - 1997 or 1998) who served in WWII. Sweeney. a Long Island native was also a cartoonist that contributed to numerous military magazines during his service. His art was used in the Midpacifican among other wartime periodicals. .

Years later his originals found themselves in various hands. I know that a few universities keep them in their records and of course the pages that were found in the antique store. When I went back to that antique store a week or two later the remaining pieces were gone. Glad I picked up what I did of this slice of American History.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 11/27/2022

There is a great tradition of cartoonists drawing for the armed services! These may not hold the wide appeal as they used to, but their significance can't be denied.

Andrew Buzzetta
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 11/27/2022

Marcus Wai wrote:

There is a great tradition of cartoonists drawing for the armed services!� These may not hold�the wide appeal as they used to, but their significance can't be denied.��

One of the things that I am kind of dismayed at is that at some point someone "mounted" each page on the cardboard backer that is resides on. It seems to be basic elmers glue but I am leery of trying to separate the page from the cardboard so it does not damage each page.

To me the value is the historical nature of each of these. Brown University holds some of his work in their collection from what I saw after seeking out information about him. What really surprises me is that a decent amount of his work survived.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/27/2022

Andrew Buzzetta wrote:

One of the things that I am kind of dismayed at is that at some point someone "mounted" each page on the cardboard backer that is resides on.� It seems to be basic elmers glue but I am leery of trying to separate the page from the cardboard so it does not damage each page.� �

To me the value is the historical nature of each of these.� Brown University holds some of his work in their collection from what I saw after seeking out information about him.� � What really surprises me is that a decent amount of his�work survived.��

Might be a sign of respect for the art that they would take the time to individually mount it back then. Otherwise, it might not have survived at all. There's probably no military code on how to handle original art. Great score to appeal to both comic art and military memorabilia collectors.

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