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Friday, July 6, 2025

Old Skool Ink Slinger Say Cheese! Pt. 7: Joe McGurk

Here’s a guy that I’m really not familiar with, but the esteemed comic strip historian Allan Holtz calls him one of the “form’s masters” and that’s good enough for me! I wasn’t able to find any examples of Joe’s comics on the web, if somebody has some I’d sure love to see ‘em. But, what’s interesting is that I found a New York “Bantam-Weight Champion” and a “Light Weight Champion” listed just before this 1928 cartoonist’s promotion. Being that McGurk did a boxing strip could this be our McGurk?!? And, on the web I found this nudie flapper painting by McGurk and the gallery selling it has a clipping about the cartoonist so the painting must be by our man!  Finding this fascinating stuff is why God invented Google! “Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings” has already gone to press, but I’m already thinking about a follow-up book “Dirty Drawings by Clean Cartoonists” so maybe McGurk’s painting could be in there.

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(Order Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings)

— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

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This entry was posted on Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pm.
Posted in Classic Cartoonists | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Old Skool Ink Slinger Say Cheese! Pt. 7: Joe McGurk”

1. Kirk Taylor Says:
   
   July 6th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

   Howdy Craig,

   I’m enjoying the clippings from the cartoonist newspaper promotion, but this last post on McGurk reminds me of something…can’t quite place it though.

   Good luck with your “Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings”!

   Regards,
   Kirk

2. Craig Yoe Says:
   
   July 6th, 2007 at 3:14 pm

   seriously, kirk, are you joking, or are you serious, sorry sometinmes (often times) i’m dense.-craig

3. Taylor Morse Collection Says:
   
   July 7th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

   Craig, no need to apologize….Hey, I zapped you off a little sumpin’ I came across…thought it’d interest you. - Kirk

4. Dancin' Dave Says:
   
   July 9th, 2007 at 9:39 am

   I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to see this dirty drawing. What’s the Internet coming to? I’ve never seen such obcenity on the web.

5. Stephen Says:
   
   July 11th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

   Craig, will “Dirty Drawings” be available at San Diego Comic-Con? Will you be signing copies?

I.T.C.H is looking forward to your thoughts. Please, no flame. Thanks!