I said that in my continuing series of 1928 cartoonist promotional photos that I’d throw some less famous ink slingers at you. You may or may not know Walter Hoban. I love his strip “Jerry on the Job”, it could actually get quite wacky and surreal at times. This promotion says that Jerry is the wittiest of the office boys. That’s because he had a number of competing office boys in the comic strip world, like Smitty for instance. I think cartoonists had a soft spot for office boys as many cartoonists themselves started at newspapers in that position.

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