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Sale 2709 - Lot 220

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRANK KING (1883 - 1969)
The Rectangle: Charge to Overhead.

Ink over graphite and blue pencil on Bristol board, 1917. 368x586 mm; 14½x23⅛ inches. Signed in final panel.

Publication
Top half-page cartoon published in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 25, 1917.
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Additional Details

A precursor to his renowned Gasoline Alley comic strip, Frank King's Pages of Fun revived a format popularized by 19th-century humor magazines: individual strips and panels often unified by a single theme. Running from 1913 to early 1920, the feature included both standalone cartoons and recurring segments such as "The Rectangle." King's satirical illustrations, which filled entire newspaper pages, reflect a formative period in his career as he honed the style and characters that would define his later work. Early versions of Gasoline Alley characters frequently appeared in these strips, eventually spinning off into a one-panel cartoon before evolving into the full-fledged daily and Sunday strip known today.

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