Rose Halverson has written me that her “dear Max” has passed away after a two month brave fight against cancer. Max got an early start in cartooning drawing postcards at the tender age of fifteen for a few small publishers. These included anti-Axis cards done in a charming animation style. Max had incredible enthusiasm for cartooning and did it for family and friends till the end.

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The above card is from the collection of Susan Hack-Lane, the Arf co-publicist at YOE! Studio.

Max sent the above incredible cartoon cacophony and told me “while in high school I did all the cartoons for their publications”.
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Here’s a self portrait Max did for me.
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Following are the newspaper panel cartoons Max did while he was in the war. They were distributed by the The Register and Tribune Syndicate. They were done in a delightful Halverson meets Bill Maudlin style.

“Two years in combt and then I do this playing baseball!”
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“I finally got that box from home—It was a pair of lounging slippers! ”
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“That settles it—tomorrow I’m changing to summer underwear! ”
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“Well, well—if it ain’t Bill Jones—what the hell are you doing here?”
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This last one below Max informed me was “one I never sent in”.

“I wish that you would make your boys stop whistling
at me while I’m taking a sunbath!”
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