[LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration]

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Clipping from LIFE Magazine featuring a grand prize winning cartoon by Basil Wolverton. The cartoon appears to be a man with very pronounced teeth and ears smiling with this neck extended forward. The text below notes the detail that the artists wife thought the subject was too human to win a cartoon contest. The backside of the leaf includes lists of editors and contributors of the magazine and some advertisements.

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24 x 27 cm. ill.

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Wolverton, Basil [1940..1952].

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Clipping from LIFE Magazine featuring a grand prize winning cartoon by Basil Wolverton. The cartoon appears to be a man with very pronounced teeth and ears smiling with this neck extended forward. The text below notes the detail that the artists wife thought the subject was too human to win a cartoon contest. The backside of the leaf includes lists of editors and contributors of the magazine and some advertisements.

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24 x 27 cm. ill.

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Wilson Hicks (1896 - 1970) was an American journalist and author who made major contributions to the advancement of photojournalism in the period of the 1930s through the 1950s. After working for the Associated Press from 1929 to 1937, he embarked on his most significant period of work, as picture editor and executive editor of LIFE magazine. Beginning in 1937, soon after the magazine’s inception, he had built a staff of 40. It was the most accomplished pool of photojournalists assembled by any publication up to that point. Hicks left the magazine in 1952.

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  • Preferred Citation: Jack Evans and George E. Harris Collection (The Dallas Way) (AR0788), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Publications pertaining to issues relevant to the LGBT community. The collection includes The Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper for the gay community in North Texas that has been published since 1984.

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Wolverton, Basil. [LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration], clipping, [1940..1952]; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1730007/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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