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Comics in Colliers Ads

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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