Illustration: 1930s Colliers Illustrations

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You might remember a post we had here a couple of weeks back on mid-1940s illustrations from Colliers Magazine. Well, here for comparison are some examples from the pages of mid-30s issues. Colliers was the "Rolls Royce" of weekly magazines, with a tremendous circulation. The artists who illustrated the articles and advertisements were highly respected and very highly paid. They were worth every penny- check out those masterful ink wash duotones!

Archive volunteer Gary Francis has been scouring the swap meets for vintage magazines for us to digitize. Keep up the good work, Gary!








(Advertisement by Fontaine Fox, creator of Toonerville Folks.)




(For more great work by cartoonist Gluyas Williams, see David King's gluyaswilliams.com)








If you enjoyed this post, check out... Colliers Magazine From the Mid-1940s and also... John Held Jr.'s Flappers, Arthur Szyk's The New Order and Artzybasheff's Neurotica, Machinalia and Diablerie.

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Stephen Worth
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ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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