My Naughty-Graphs scrapbook image

My Naughty-Graphs
Place Unknown
1944
A graphic designer, illustrator, and cartoonist, Charles Forbell was a staff artist for the New York World as well as a regular contributor to magazines including Life and Judge, where he created series including "In Ye Goode Old Days" (Life) as well as "In Ancient Times" and "Ancient Sources of Modern Inventions" (Judge) throughout the first three decades of the twentieth century. Forbell also created the short-lived newspaper comic "Naughty Pete" in 1913.

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I'm curious, how did this scrapbook work? Are the pages following the two (one?) shown, blank? (Charles Forbell is new to me, though he's represented well enough on the web.)
posted on 07.02.09 by John McVey



It was a typical blank book with pages to fill in. All of them are wonderful, though I have a pretty strong suspicion that there wasn't much of a copy editor (typos aplenty!) I'll post more pages in it soon and you can see for yourself. He was an incredible illustrator, by the way, and clearly a precursor to people like Chris Ware.
posted on 07.08.09 by jessica helfand













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