My meager budget precludes me from being a collector of original art, but when this cartoon by Brad Shaw for an old and long gone men’s magazine became available at a price I could not resist, I did not resist it!
Sadly, I couldn’t find any information on Brad Shaw, but the BRAD signature looked familiar as did the style. He was one of an army of cartoonists who hammered out these cartoons complete with a gag line and mailed them off to various magazines. Maybe the editor would use it. Maybe he wouldn’t. This one was for Sex to Sexty which was a girlie/humor magazine published in Arlington, Texas between 1964 to 1983. It was the kind of ribald humor magazine that would be among the stacks of comic books and issues of Sports Illustrated for customers to read at the barber shop. The cover usually promised LOTSA of LAFFS and LASSES.
I don’t know how old the cartoon is or when it was published, but my guess is that it is from from the early ’70s. This was very much the style of a lot of cartoons and greeting cards at the time. The big bowtie, ruffled collar and cuffs, and the flared slacks were all very much of that era. Simple and clean line work. Politically incorrect. I had to have it.
It looks like it was drawn on typing paper. I imagine all of his work was done that way, and he probably pounded out several during the course of a day. He wasn’t going to get rich, but you never know. He probably told family and friends that Charles Schulz had started out that way.
I’d agree, early 70s. And ‘sly’ humor…
I miss those magazines. All they needed was a market and time on a printing press.