Evening star. [volume], December 20, 1959, Page 15, Image 139

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
’tis the season to be jolly!
And here’s bow seven cartoonists say Merry Christmas with a smile
When an English painter named John Calcott
Horsley designed a card in 1843 to wish his
friends a Merry Christmas, he had no idea what
he was starting.
This week the U.S. Post Office is swamped
with two and a half billion Christmas cards,
making this the jolliest season yet from the
point of view of greeting-card manufacturers.
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Ronald Saorlo, most famous of the
British cartoonists. has a romping
good time drawing outrageous portraits
°f h*s fdlow Englishmen. Now he has
taken us on in a newly-published book.
By Backing Chair Across America"
Merry Chhutmai and a Happy New Year...
The staggering success of painter Horsley’s
idea can be explained by the endless ingenuity
of his fellow artists of succeeding generations,
such as these contemporary artist-illustrators
of U.S. and Great Britain, who have sent us
their own cards.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
to you! That’s what Mr. Horsley said in 1843!
ft. O. Blachman, who conceited the
traffic tie-up below, is a 29-year-old
New Yorker who says he became an
artist because he was bad at everything
else. He has published a book of
drawings, "The Juggler of Our Lady"
LAST LAUGH
Arnold Varga, who grew that sun
flower above, gardens in the great,
green front yard of American adver
tising. He's 33, a native of McKees
port, Pa., and an award winner mans
times in exhibitions of graphic arts
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The late Gerard Haffnung, whose
Santa is confronted with an unusual
chimney, was a warm-hearted spoofer.
He once put on a highly comic music
festival in London featuring the
'music" of an Espresso coffee machine
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