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Dr. Miles and his Shatwell Joke Book is HERE on Dull Tool Dim Bulb the Blog
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From an undated Salesman Sample Novelty Gag “A Bumper Crop” circa 1940
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Ten Commandments of LOVE courtesy Dull Tool Dim Bulb the Daily Art Blog
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Eye Trouble The missing postcard artist Chet Warner HERE on Vintage Sleaze the Blog
No Date (circa 1950?) Collection Victor Minx
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All purpose party apology card circa 1920 DULL TOOL DIM BULB the DAILY ART BLOG
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Pop a Wheely Nutz! STORY HERE ON VINTAGE SLEAZE THE DAILY BLOG
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Rose’s and Violet’s Panties (Story of Fishlove Novelty Gag Gift) HERE on VINTAGE SLEAZE THE BLOG
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CREDIT: Bill Wenzel Illustration on Pepper Magazine 1952 Collection Victor Minx “Kissproof”
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Grab your Dreams, Let Go of your Nightmares on Vintage Sleaze the Blog HERE
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Bicycle built for ONE Wallet Sized “Comic Card” circa 1950 (America’s Newest Sensation)
CREDIT PLEASE Vintage Sleaze the Blog Collection Victor Minx
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HORRIBLE POSTCARDS OF ANONYMOUS (with Jim Linderman) NEW BOOK available NOW SEE ALSO HERE
from BLURB.COM
EXCERPT:
The 3” x 5” bad sexist drawing is the art underbelly of America. Millions were produced by printing companies like Curitech and Kropp. They dominated the racks. Candy colored cuties on “linen” or “chrome” slipped in among the pictures of “memorial park” and “sunset on the dock.” One after the other, in the “comic” section or “risque” numbered consecutively with the company logo often placed right where the stamp went. A dividing line indicating who was responsible. A “genuine” something or other with a copyright notice. It didn’t stop the jokes from being copied and traced. One man’s “Wilbur” was another man’s “George” and they all got dropped in the slot with a purple stamp of Lincoln affixed in the corner.
There were so many, it took an extra special artist to stand out from the postcard pack. To make it into the big leagues, where a major publisher would pay you ten bucks a drawing and let you sign away your rights in perpetuity. Some made it, but few are recognized. The genre is, but the illustrators aren’t. Relegated to postal
obscurity with no residuals.
Anonymous here didn’t have the goods, but he tried. In fact he tried TERRIBLY hard. With hardly an atom of creativity, he churned them out hoping for the big break.
It never happened. No rejection letters were found, but it is a safe bet there were some. I can’t really say too much about his work, what you see is what he did and what you get. I date them somewhere between beatnik and punk, but then who knows what time warp (or basement) he lived in. He hand-cut the cards (after drawing them) with one of those meat-cutters only the teacher could use. They aren’t too crisp and scanning was difficult, as he sliced off portions of the hilarious captions in his haste to stack them…as a result, some ride awful close to the edge but each one came with quotation marks
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Cinder Ella! Tijuana Bibles which Aren’t Tijuana Bibles!
NUMBER 21 of the Series HISTORY OF TIJUANA BIBLES
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