In the book I’m working on now, Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings (Last Gasp, July) I have 65 Clean Cartoonists as of today and I’m trying to have a caricature or photo of each of them to accompany their bios. I’m going to have a visual of each of them so far except Bazooka Joe cartoonist Wesley Morse who I can’t find a thing on. But, one task I’ve given myself is to try and find an UNUSUAL pic of each of the ink-slingers. So I’ve got a photo of Alex Raymond in an Indian headdress, Otto Soglow bare chested wearing boxing gloves, Jack Davis riding a tricycle, a photo of Al Smith with a very nekid stripper, Bob Kane dressed up in a very strange looking Batman suit, etc. I’ll have an unpublished (dirty!) caricature of George Herriman from my colllection and a self-caricature of Chuck Jones done especially for me!

I just got this rare self caricature of Mort Walker that I’m gonna use, speaking of the creator of Beetle Bailey artist as I have been this week. My good friend Alan Kaplan turned me onto the 1949 publication with this in it. This caricature with the sexy pipe smoke will go nicely in the Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings book. The publication also had some great Walker cartoons from that year. The first cartoon has Beetle before he joined the army and before he became a newspaper comic! The last gag is about the wacky musician Spike Jones who I love. Tomorrow I’ll show you another cartoonist who referenced Spike Jones that will greatly suprise you.

“We have a bet on. If you won’t kiss me, I get to kiss you.”
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“Here comes Betty with your blind date”
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“Listen, darling, Spike Jones is playing our song on washboard.”
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Great news! I just checked and you can now pre-order Clean Cartoonists’s Dirty Drawings at a terrific discount on Amazon. You’ll be the first on you block to have one! Click to order HERE.