Bo Brown - Mid 20th Century Pen and Ink Drawing Original Signed Cartoon

Description

Bo Brown - Original Mid 20th Century Pen and Ink Drawing. Without text. Stamped on the back with Bo Brown's name and address in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. In fine condition.

Size

Size: 18.8 x 14.9cm (7.4" x 5.9")

Collection Information

Robert F. “Bo” Brown’s cartoons appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, the New Yorker and about 600 other local, regional and national publications. He created a syndicated cartoon strip called “Such Is Life” in 1936. He received the National Cartoonist Society’s Gag Cartoon Award for 1981. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928. He was a student in the university’s law school in 1930 when he sold two cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, and did so well that he took a leave from Penn to pursue cartooning. With the help of his wife Marge, he sold more than 30,000 cartoons over his career. He also created the cartoon character Professor Quagmire that ran from 1946-1971 in the Pennsylvania Gazette, the alumni magazine for the university. Brown died at the age of 90 in August 1996. He had met his last deadline two weeks before.