"This'll run forever!"

Saturday Bonus Day.

In the fifties and sixties everyone who used to make a living selling cartoons had to find something else to get a regular income. Some went into dvertising, some created their own newspaper characters and some sold a daily cartoon series, often using a new and unique theme. Also, some succeeded nd some did not. One of the les successful series (by a ver acomplished cartoonist) was Famous Last Words by the always stylish Irwin Caplan. It ran for the second half of 1956 and maybe some time after that.

 

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Irwin was another one of the second tier cartoonists, at lest if you consider the New Yorker as the first tier. Cartoonists like Irwin Caplan, Virgil Partch, mort Walker Hank Ketcham, Bo Brown, Chon Day, Dan Tobin, the Berenstainns, Cavalli, Jerry Marcus, Stan hunt, Rob't Day, Ned Hilton, Boltinoff, Colin Alen and others all worked for the better paying clients such as The Saturday Evening Post, Look, True, The American Weekly, This Week and Collier's on a regular basis. Here is sme of Caplan's work for Collier's. Always stylisticly impressive, always a bit funny (but not laugh out loud). He did very well in the forties and fifties and even managed to end up with a daily newspaper cartoon when the marlets dried down.