Comics in Colliers Ads

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Leave it to the Hollywood Animation Archive to come up with some great commercial comics from Colliers Magazine in the 1930’s (click through for the complete versions). When I first saw the ad presented above, I thought it was a modern day tongue-in-cheek alternative comic, but it is genuine. And so is the guy below…

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One Response to “Comics in Colliers Ads


  • Scott Phillips
    February 9th, 2008 18:47
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    The Sanka one looks suspiciously like a Wm. Steig.

    And in the upper one, the character on the right has a good point–a fellow’s a fool to risk B.O. in the summertime.

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