VINCENT HAMLIN. "Now, Sergeant Oop, I'd like you to meet your personal physician." Pen and ink on paper. 254x203 mm; 10x8 inches (sight). Signed in ink, lower right. An Alley Oop military themed cartoon published in the Air Force Hospital's monthly magazine, September 1944. Framed and matted with an autograph letter signed by hamlin to the recipient (a recently active serviceman) dated 4 April, 1987 on Hamlin's stationery.
In addition to visiting wounded servicemen, Hamlin drew a series of cartoons for the Air Force Hospitals in Nashville and Sarasota, depicting the steps a service person would have to take during the convalescence process. They were published in their magazine "Review" and, according to Hamlin in the accompanying letter "although not in comic strip form, I consider them to be among the best of my work even tho done in 1944." By this time, his eyesight was so poor that he added as a postscript "Disregard errors in this-remember I cannot read what I write."
