Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gag, Greek to the average reader, has a mystic meaning to the New Yorker staff which publishes it once a year. It is a memorial to a type of U.S. humor which The New Yorker helped to bury...
...cartoonist who helped slay the stereotyped two-line gag was a bald, weedy-looking New Jerseyite named George Price, who last month rounded out his tenth year as one of The New Yorker's most delirious funnymen...
Cartoonist Price's first big dent in U.S. humor was made with a New Yorker drawing depicting a man floating near the ceiling over his bed, while his wife remarks casually to a visitor: "He's been up for three weeks now, and there's nothing we can do about it." Since then Price has specialized in a sort of incongruity that borders on surrealism. Key to his humor is the casual gravity with which his long-faced, sprain-skulled characters regard the most highly improbable situations. Drawn with a fast line that gives them the appearance...
...inspector of soldering, did odd layout jobs in printing offices, finally landed with a poster and theatrical scenery outfit where he painted backdrops for vaudeville houses. In 1927, he went to Paris, spent four months drawing. After he got back to the U.S. he crashed The New Yorker with a $30 cartoon, has been cartooning ever since...
Today, with The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's all clamoring for Price drawings, Cartoonist Price has a hard time keeping up with the demand. He gets $80 and up from The New Yorker. His biggest money comes from advertising accounts (General Electric's "bulbsnatching" series, etc.), which pay him up to $350 each for hundreds of drawings a year...