They Don’t Speak Our Language, six-page article by H.T. Webster, published in The Forum, December 1933
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Showing posts with label H.T. Webster. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
H.T. Webster—They Don’t Speak Our Language
Saturday, December 13, 2014
On Webster’s Wall – The Thrill That Comes Once In A Lifetime
| “Take all that stuff off the walls and get rid of it —” |
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T.H. WEBSTER drew this large one-panel cartoon for the New York Tribune daily newspaper of 2 October 1937, in his series The Thrill That Comes Once In A Lifetime, and thought up the joke, captioned ‘The new art editor decides to clean house,’ staged in an editor’s-office with walls filled with original artworks, 17 of the visible drawings are signed and drawn by different American fellow artists. Webster, ‘Webby’ for friends, was 52 at the time. Did Webster enjoy himself composing this wall? Did he personally know these originals? Or the artists? Were there any New York Tribune colleagues among them? The eldest of the 17 shown here was born in 1851, the youngest in 1884. How many of them were not among the living anymore? Who was the eldest? And who was the youngest? Were all these sub-signatures ‘signed’ by Webster himself, you think?
1. DAN SMITH
(1865-1934, Dan Smith)†
(1865-1934, Dan Smith)†
The Story of Superstitions
2. A.B. FROST
(1851-1928, Arthur Burdett Frost)†
2. A.B. FROST
(1851-1928, Arthur Burdett Frost)†
Our Cat Eats Rat Poison
3. F. Opper
(1857-1937, Frederick Burr Opper)†
3. F. Opper
(1857-1937, Frederick Burr Opper)†
Happy Hooligan
4. SWINNERTON
(1875-1974, James Guilford Swinnerton)
4. SWINNERTON
(1875-1974, James Guilford Swinnerton)
Little Jimmy, Little Bears And Tykes
5. Frueh
(1880-1968, Alfred Joseph Frueh)
5. Frueh
(1880-1968, Alfred Joseph Frueh)
theatrical caricature
6. HERRIMAN
(1880-1944, George Joseph Herriman)
6. HERRIMAN
(1880-1944, George Joseph Herriman)
Krazy Kat
7. ZIM
(1862-1935, Eugene Zimmerman)†
7. ZIM
(1862-1935, Eugene Zimmerman)†
This & That About Caricature
8. Davenport
(1867-1912, Homer Calvin Davenport)†
8. Davenport
(1867-1912, Homer Calvin Davenport)†
Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport
9. J.N. DiNg
(1876-1962, Jay Norwood Darling)
9. J.N. DiNg
(1876-1962, Jay Norwood Darling)
Tillie Clapsaddle
10. C.G. BUSH
(1842-1909, Charles Green Bush)†
10. C.G. BUSH
(1842-1909, Charles Green Bush)†
The Political Cartoon
11. TAD
(1877-1929, Thomas Aloysius Dorgan)†
11. TAD
(1877-1929, Thomas Aloysius Dorgan)†
Tad’s Favorite Indoor Sports
12. McCUTCHEON
(1870-1949, John Tinney McCutcheon)
12. McCUTCHEON
(1870-1949, John Tinney McCutcheon)
Bird Center cartoons
13. BRIGGS
(1875-1930, Clare Aloysius Briggs)†
13. BRIGGS
(1875-1930, Clare Aloysius Briggs)†
When a Feller Needs a Friend
14. Herbert Johnson
(1878-1946, Herbert Johnson)
Cartoons by Herbert Johnson
14. Herbert Johnson
(1878-1946, Herbert Johnson)
Cartoons by Herbert Johnson
15. T.S. Sullivant
(1854-1926, Thomas Starling Sullivant)†
(1854-1926, Thomas Starling Sullivant)†
Fables for the Times
16. Art Young
(1866-1943, Henry Arthur Young)
16. Art Young
(1866-1943, Henry Arthur Young)
Journey through Hell
17. F. Fox
(1884-1964, Fontaine Fox)
17. F. Fox
(1884-1964, Fontaine Fox)
Toonerville Folks
18. WEBSTER
(1885-1952, Harold Tucker Webster)
18. WEBSTER
(1885-1952, Harold Tucker Webster)
The Timid Soul
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THANKS TO
Rob Stolzer, Brian Walker, Richard Marschall, Ulrich Merkl and Alex Jay
VAN OPSTAL, 2014
Rob Stolzer, Brian Walker, Richard Marschall, Ulrich Merkl and Alex Jay
VAN OPSTAL, 2014
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Billy Ireland and the Indian Doctor
A rare instance of one cartoonist, H.T. Webster, drawing another cartoonist’s recollection. Billy Ireland was Milton Caniff’s mentor. From Cartoons Magazine, Volume 11, 1917.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Webster on the Pallophotophone
Famous Artists Give Addresses From WGY Here. Schenectady Gazette, 17 Mar 1923
Charles Dana Gibson and H. T. Webster spoke on WGY, the General Electric Radio station in Schenectady, NY “by use of the pallophotophone, a reproducing device which photographs sound.” The speakers, “whose voices were heard… themselves were elsewhere.”
Gibson spoke on “Laughter as a Tonic” while Webster talked about how cartoons were made. Here’s H. T. Webster >
“The correspondence schools, in their advertising, give the impression that the art is ridiculously simple, and that any person over ten years old who can’t learn to draw first class cartoons after a few lessons is an imbecile. The cartoonist’s life is painted in rosy colors. The inference being that any member of the profession dashes off a drawing before breakfast -- hands it to his third assistant secretary, who rushes it to the paper and comes back a few minutes later pushing a bale of fifty dollar bills in a wheelbarrow.
In other words the correspondence school in cartooning makes the reader feel that of the two occupations -- ditch digging and cartooning -- cartooning should be given the preference.
I want to say, after many years experience, that drawing a daily cartoon is not the carefree frolic it is said to be. It is mighty hard work. There is nothing I can think of just now so nerve racking as to sit and stare at a blank piece of bristol board for an hour or two hoping that an idea will happen. This is the time I usually feel I was hasty in refusing the job in the brickyard when I was a boy. Once the idea is hatched getting it down in black and white is comparatively simple. A few hours of scratching and you are through, with nothing to do but make another one.
George Ade once said every man knocks his own job but sticks to it like glue. I know there isn’t a man on earth I would trade jobs with. There is a lot of satisfaction coaxing a smile out of a man who has just paid his income tax and who defies anyone to make him turn up the corners of his mouth. It doesn’t happen as often as it should. Genuinely humorous ideas are rare. So many of them are obviously artificial. But when one good one does turn up it attracts as much attention as a flapper with her galoshes buckled. One appeared a few weeks ago in Punch. A fare was shown climbing into a taxi; a blizzard was raging outside. The fare remarks ‘rather wintry morning this’ and the driver replies, ‘I give you my word sir, I ain’t seen a butterfly all day.’
Punch published another masterpiece not long ago. It was drawn by Bateman and called ‘The One Note Man.’ A man was shown getting out of bed, bathing, shaving and having a hurried breakfast. He is next pictured running for his train. On his arrival in the city all the details of his activities before reaching his place of employment are faithfully drawn. He arrives at the concert hall and takes his place in the orchestra. The program starts. Our hero sits idly while the horns blare and the drums roll. He glances at the music occasionally. As the number progresses he begins to sit up and show signs of life. Finally along towards the end of the piece he places his flute to his lips and blows one note. The action of the drawing is now reversed. The musician leaves the concert hall, catches his train for the suburbs, walks home from the station, has his dinner, undresses, bathes and goes to bed. This drawing occupied four pages in the magazine as I recall it.”
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
H. T. Webster after the War 1918-1919
Cartoons can be an excellent medium for illuminating the far past. I was aware of the popularity of German souvenirs during both world wars but three of these H. T. Webster cartoons involve spiked Boche helmets -- as presents for little brothers, girlfriends and as mantle-piece victory ornaments.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
H. T. Webster (1885-1952)
Although his last newspaper cartoon appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on April 4, 1953, when I was too young to have appreciated it, H. T. Webster is my favourite among the single-panel slice-of-life cartoonists. Just how popular he was is shown by the number of cartoon collections published in his lifetime. They were >
Our Boyhood Thrills and other Cartoons 1915
Boys and Folks 1917
Webster’s Bridge 1924
Webster’s Poker Book 1926
The Timid Soul 1931
The Culbertson-Webster Contract System 1932
Grand Slams 1938
Webster Unabridged 1945
To Hell with Fishing 1945
Who Dealt this Mess 1948
How to Torture your Husband 1948
How to Torture your Wife 1948
Life with Rover 1949
The Best of H. T. Webster A Memorial Collection 1953
Cover Gallery HERE
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