Author: MCCUTCHEON, JOHN T. (HONOREE AND SIGNER), CLEVELAND, CHESTER W. (EDITOR). CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, MILTON CANIFF, GEORGE MCMANUS, HAROLD GRAY, RUBE GODBERG, CARL ANDERSON, RUDOLPH DIRKS, CHESTER GOULD, FONTAINE FOX, PAUL A. PLASCHKE
Title: Saga of a Hoosier Boy: A Collection of Pictorial Tributes by the Contemporaries of John T. McCutcheon, the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize Winner and Dean of American Cartoonists.
Description: Indiana Society of Chicago. 1940, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Scarce tribute volume for Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist John T. McCutcheon, and SIGNED by him on the titlepage as most copies of the low edition book probably were. Most of the leading cartoonists of the day, both the political cartoonists and the "funny paper" cartoonists have contributed a full page, custom cartoon for this souvenir book. Unpaginated, with then-modern, newly patented red plastic comb-binding. Condition: crack to plastic comb does not affect structure of binding. Moderate finger smudges to covers, crease to corner of back cover. short 1/2" tear to one page, with no loss of material. Title on cover "29th Annual Dinner of the Indiana Society of Chicago, Greatest Show on Earth" A high point of American cartoon history. Contributors include: Fontaine Fox (Toonerville Folks), H. D. Webster (NY Herald Tribune), D. R. Fitzpatrick (St. Louis Post Dispatch), James Montgomery Flagg, Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates), Joseph Parrish and Carey Orr (Chicago Tribune), John Cassel (Brookyn Eagle), George McManus (Bringing up Father), Charles Kuhn (Indianapolis News), Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie), Clifford Berryman (Washington Star), Carl Anderson (Henry), Rube Goldberg, Rollin Kirby (New York Post), Dorman H. Smith (San Francisco Examiner), Frank King (Gasoline Alley), Frank Willard (Moon Mullins), Jacob Burck (Chicago Times), Edmund W. Gale (Los Angeles Times), Edmund Duffy (Baltimore Sun), Zack Mosley (Smilin' Jack), Gus Edison (The Gumps), Jimmy Murphy (Toots and Casper), Burt Thomas (Detroit News), Rudolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids), Vaughn Shoemaker (Chicago Daily News), Nelson Harding (New York Journal and American), Jay N. (Ding) Darling (Des Moines Register and Tribune), William F. Heitman (Indianapolis Star), Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), Sol Hess (The Nebbs), Charles G. Werner (Oklahoma Times), Walter Berndt (Smitty), Carl Somdal (Chicago Tribune), James H. Donahey (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Cy Hungerford (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Harold Talburt (Washington News), Carl Ed (Harold Teen), Hal Coffman (Forth Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Battenfield (Chicago Times), Martin Banner (Winnie Winkle - The Breadwinner), Will B. Johnstone (New York World Telegram), Karl Kae Knecht (Evansville Courier). Good.

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