[Collection]: Early Artwork of Connecticut Cartoonist Walt Munson: Regular Contributor to The New Haven Register and The Brooklyn Eagle

Edité par [Connecticut], 1917

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A collection of early artwork by Connecticut cartoonist Walt Munson. The collection includes a 1917 sketch book bound by hand with string, an unbound sketch from 1914, a card, and a sheet of proofs for the Ledger Syndicate. Also included is a 1932 copy of the Ledger Syndicate Catalog that has a photo of Munson, short bio, and comments on his work. Walt Munson (Walter Fredrick Munson) was born October 4, 1887, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He took to drawing at an early age, publishing his first cartoon in the *Waterbury Republican* as a seventh grader. The earliest piece in this collection was drawn not long after that when Munson was just 16 years old, it's an unbound pencil sketch of a blacksmith working in his shop Signed by Munson and dated April 17, 1914. The sketch shows the young artist experimenting with shading and depth-of-field, and despite its flaws it demonstrates that the burgeoning artist had promise. The sketch book, which measures approximately 6" x 8½" and consists of 55 pages illustrated in ink and pencil, is dated 1917 with the earliest noted month being January and the latest being July; suggesting that many of these drawings were done during the eight months leading up to his enrollment in the Navy. Records indicate that Munson served two years, during which he became the Art Editor for the publication *Our Navy*, presumably his first position as an artist. The drawings in the sketchbook show significant improvement over the blacksmith sketch, with masterful shading and line work, as well as displaying a deft hand at portraiture. Though many of the sketches employ the cartoonish style Munson would go on to use in his comics, only a handful of the drawings here have captions: One shows a mouse scurrying across the keys of a piano, with "Running the scales" written underneath. Another shows a clown lying in bed and thumbing his nose to a ringing alarm clock with the caption, "When the bell on the stand rings in vacation time." The sketchbook also shows full-length sketches of men and women (often in formal attire), clowns, a wonderful sketch of a speeding race car, and caricatures of African Americans that would be considered offensive today. Additionally, there are two explicitly political sketches: One is a small sketch of a woman holding a sign which reads, "Vote for women," the other is a large portrait of a heavyset mustachioed man in a cap drinking (what appears to be) a glass of wine, across from him is a small sketch of a man dressed like a bartender, but with a clown nose, and above his head is written, "Oh Germany why don't you set dear Ireland free?" The card, measuring 3¼" x 5½", is not dated and is the only real use of color in the collection (though one drawing in the sketchbook is colored purple). Illustrated in ink and colored with crayons or pastels, it shows a smiling woman with blond hair, blue eyeshadow, and rosy cheeks with the caption, "To Jack: Why the wolves ‘Howell’ aboard the U.S.S. Baltimore, Best Wishes, Walt Munson." Another inscription is written on the verso in pencil, "Jack - Hope this will do for the locker – Walt Munson." The proofs are on a sheet measuring 11¾" x 21" and printed on the recto. It features six cartoons of Munson’s comic series *Such is Life* (apparently also published under the title *Time to Crab*). The little information about Munson available online tends to characterize him as a "sports comic," and while he did make comics involving sports, this set of proofs shows that Munson also worked with everyday observations, such as a man with a full, bushy beard blaming the bald waiter for the hair in his soup; and a boy experiencing "the first day of the itchy heavy woolen winter underwear" and telling a nearby dog who is busy scratching their ear, "believe me I know how you feel." Written in holograph at the top is, "Proofs of my syndicate series handled by Ledger Syndicate, Philadelphia, PA." And while the proofs print which days in October each comic would run.…

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Titre
[Collection]: Early Artwork of Connecticut Cartoonist Walt Munson: Regular Contributor to The New Haven Register and The Brooklyn Eagle
Auteur
MUNSON, Walt
Éditeur
[Connecticut]
Année de publication
1917
État de l'article
Very Good
Signé
Signé par l'auteur
Reliure
Unbound

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