World Encyclopedia of Cartoons S-V

Ronald Searle's St. Trinian's series.

They actually have entire movies on YouTube. Who knew?


Before Ralph Steadman was best known as Hunter Thompson's illustrator, he was a gag cartoonist, mainly for Punch.


Here's a cartoon William Steig did for Look.


Saul Steinberg in Liberty


An example of Sunflower Street, which doesn't seem to have any links online, so once again, I'll consult The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons from which this came.

“SUNFLOWER STREET, the creation of Tom Sims (writer) and Tom Little (artist), started in 1934 as a daily panel for King Features Syndicate. In 1929 Sims went on to write the Thimble Theater strip, and by 1940 Little remained as sole author of the feature. Sunflower Street was unusual in that it had an all-black cast of characters (its closest antecedent was E. W. Kemble's Blackberries). Although not devoid of stereotypes, Sunflower Street was far from being a funny-paper Amos 'n' Andy. The people in it—the gentle but shrewd Pap Henty, the sagacious Granny Lou, the white-bearded Mr. Native, the ne'er-do-well Cousin Bobo, the panel's children, Eenie, Meeny, Miney and Moe—had real character and much charm. The pace was relaxed, and the humor always low-key.

“Nothing really disturbing ever happened on Sunflower Street, and its critics have pointed to the fact as proof of the panel's failings; but the same omission also characterized most small-town features of the 1930s and 1940s. Little poured a great deal of heart into Sunflower Street, as well as many fond remembrances of his rural Tennessee childhood. It was therefore with great reluctance that he finally discontinued it in 1949, due to falling readership.”


Maurice Sinet (Siné) in Lui (NSFW).

Image Shack deemed this forbidden, even though racism is OK with them. If anyone knows of a storage site that doesn't censor, let me know.


T. S. Sullivant


Arthur Szyk cover for Collier's.


From the Monmon series of serigaphs by Hideo Takeda.


Still from Dusan Vukotic's Ersatz, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject in 1961, and probably the inspiration for The Simpsons parody of European cartoons.

Cartoon Cavalade: World War I and the Impudent Decade

Clare Briggs, New York Tribune 1917


Eugene “ZIM” Zimmerman, Judge 1917


Torbell, Life 1917


Orson Lowell, Judge 1917


Thomas Starling Sullivant, Life 1918


Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, Des Moines Register 1918


Ellison Hoover, Life 1920


Clare Briggs, New York Tribune 1920


Here's a two-pager from Henry Mayo Bateman, Golden Book 1921



Thomas Starling Sullivant, Life 1922


McGurk, New York American 1922


James Robert Williams, The World 1924


“Marge” Henderson Buell, Saturday Evening Post 1925


Gluyas Williams, Life 1925

Cartoon Cavalcade

This book came out in 1943. It's mostly panels from the New Yorker but those are in print elsewhere so I'll skip them. I'll skip the strips that are in other collections. The stills from Disney cartoons can all be seen in other places in color. Even leaving out all that, there's still a lot in this 444-page collection covering the medium up until then. Even though it curtails the use of paper during wartime, it still uses more paper than books produced recently in which such sacrifices are not made.

In the introduction. Author Thomas Craven says, “The first consideration, in selecting the illustrations for this book, as I have pointed out in the text, was that the drawing must be funny. It was a long and complicated business involving both a sense of humor and that curious quality known as artistic temperament. Deceased cartoonists were well satisfied with the illustration in their name; but living cartoonists had their own ideas on which pictures represented them in a volume dealing not only with the course of laughter but the causes of laughter through the passing years. For the solution to the endless difficulties of selection, procurement, and appeasement, I am indebted to Florence and Sydney Weiss[...] I am particularly indebted to William Murrell's A History of American Graphic Humor, the only work of it's kind and a monumental contribution to Americana. Murrell's history, besides being invaluable for reference, has recalled to me the old artists and funny men whose cartoons were a part of my education”


The endpapers have the signatures of most of the (then living) cartoonists in this volume:


C.H. Ebert Scribner's, 1901


Carl Hauser, Fun for the Millions, 1900


Walt Kuhn, Judge 1908


George McManus, New York Evening-Journal 1904


Walt Kuhn, Judge 1907


Thomas Starling Sullivant, Harper's Weekly 1912


L. M. Blackens, Puck 1907


Thomas E. Powers, New York Evening-Journal 1907


Harrison Cady,Life 1906



George Bellows, The Masses 1911


Robert Minor, The Masses 1915


Crawford Young, Judge 1917