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DOW WALLING (1902-1987) "Fore!" Original "Skeets" Sunday comic, published January 4, 1948, with N. Y. Herald Tribune pastedown. Pen and ink over graphite with correction fluid on stiff paper. 338x523 mm; 13 1/4x20 1/2 inches, on 14 1/2x23-inch sheet. Signed "Dow Walling" in last panel, and dated in lower left panel. Mounted to foamboard.
Provenance: From the collection of Dick McDonough.
Dow Walling was a self-taught comic artist born and raised on a farm outside of Bellingham, Washington. His childhood upbringing is reflected in the adventures of the spunky young protagonist in his popular comic strip 'Skeets,' which ran in the Sunday New York Herald Tribune and was nationally syndicated from 1932 until 1951. In the strip, Skeets, his friend Button-Nose, and cousin Eggy, wander the fields and streets of small town America, trying to avoid nemesis Cue-ball Benson. Walling also created a short-lived series for Johnson Features syndicate called 'Campus Cowboys,' before selling his cartoons to Life, Judge, and College Humor. He began working on numerous existing cartoons with King Features syndicate in 1931 before he was approached by the Tribune to create 'Skeets.'
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