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Sale 2709 - Lot 221

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRANK KING (1883 - 1969)
The Rectangle: Let us be Thankful.

Ink over graphite and blue pencil on Bristol board, 1916. 370x575 mm; 14⅝x22⅝ inches. Signed in final panel. A number of notes are written in pencil along the lower edge, indicating ideas for the cartoon such as "Series of paradies on ads," "Xmas shopping will have cranberries," and "In memory of (feather duster)."

Publication
Top half-page cartoon published in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, November 26, 1916.
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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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