Paul Goldberg had a life long love of newspaper comic strips, newspaper editorial cartoons and cartoons in magazines. As a child in the 1930s he began writing to comic strip artists asking for small drawings and he must have caught the collecting bug because he continued writing artists requesting drawings through the mid-1980s. As he grew to adulthood, his tastes in art would also mature, which was seen in the work he sought out, with work from artist from such periodicals as Mad Magazine, Playboy and The New Yorker. He would also seek out artists internationally. To view his collection before being broken up must have been a sight to behold.
While his collection did include original comic strip art and other original art, the majority were wonderful little drawings on post cards as well as autographs on post cards (like the autographs he received from Walt Disney, Alex Raymond, and Hal Foster). In his correspondence with artists, Paul would include a post paid, self addressed post card (at first his address was hand written with the haphazard, jagged, misproportioned penmanship of a child and eventually the address had the precise same exactness that only a hand stamp supplied), which is why the bulk of his collection was comprised of drawings on post cards.
He would pass on his love of comics to his daughter, who also wrote to artists requesting drawings. Here is a sampling of drawings from his vast collection.
60 Pieces Ordered By Most Recent Change Order to Title ( 1 through 54 shown)
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