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GEORGE LICHTY - Two Early (1930s) Cartoons for One LOW Price!

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Title:	GEORGE LICHTY - Two Early (1930s) Cartoons for One LOW Price!
Artist:	George Lichty (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	FS: $100 + Shipping
Views:	49
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Added to Site:	1/17/2026
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Okay, you�ve heard me yammer on and on about George Lichty (1905-1983) in the past. And you know I devoted a blog post to someone I consider one of the greatest ink-slingers in the newspaper funnies pages. So I won�t rehash my effervescence about Lichty. If I have turned you into a fan by now, there may be no hope! But for all of you Lichtyites out there, I recently came into a nice batch of some of the earliest originals I have seen by the ink-slinging master. In the 1930s, while he was drawing Grin and Bear it, Lichty drew a lot of advertising cartoons for Botsford, Constantine and Gardner, a Portland-based advertising firm. I have not yet been able to find published examples of these advertising cartoons, but as best I can figure, they appeared in Advertising & Selling, a publication devoted to the advertising business. Lichty�s name comes up in a 1937 issue, so I put these two cartoons at circa 1937. All of the cartoons that I acquired relate to advertising, referring phrases such as: �The rule of three, 1+1+1� and �the fourth family�. You can see how Lichty's drawing at this point was boxier and more angular. There's a great weight to the figures, and while he maintains some figural looseness, he hasn�t quite gotten to that reckless abandon of his later work. The piece with the pastor measures 12�x 9�� and is in Fine+ condition. The cartoon with the sales girls measures 12�x 11�� and is also in VG condition. You can make out a faint water stain in the upper part of that second cartoon, barely going into the word balloon. Both cartoons are drawn with ink and litho crayon on Coquille board. Lichty�s 1930s cartoon originals have been wildly scarce before this, but I picked up this batch at a good price and I�m passing the savings onto fellow Lichtyite. Both cartoons for $100.00 + 15.00 shipping.

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