Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Blog

As we inch closer and closer to our moving date at the Cartoon Library, we’ll be tossing more and more single gags your way on the blog to keep you laughing all the way to the front door of our new building this Fall. Summer is in full swing, and our movers arrive in just a few short weeks!

Today, a magazine cartoon from Charles Pearson, from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection. Pearson is yet another unsung but highly prolific cartoonists of the 1940s and 50s, contributing work to True Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, and more. We know that Pearson was in the service as well, as he had also contributed to Yank: The Army Weekly. If you have more information about his work and background, we’d love for you to share it!

Charles Pearson original magazine cartoon, circa 1950. From the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (click to enlarge)