1929 Jimmy Hatlo Original Comic Art Gag Panel
Featuring College Football Gags
Originally Published in the San Francisco Call-Bulletin
Signed by Artist

Gag 1
Pop Warner extols a Stanford Indian to Jack up a Hurdle "Higher! Higher! Higher!" as a Mickey Mouse looking Cal Golden Bear jumps over hurdles for Santa Clara, Saint Marys, Washington State, Penn, Olympic Club, USC, Montana, Washington on their way to the Conference Title.

Gag 2
The Trojan War Horse Shakes Hooves with the Santa Clara Bronco and says "Put her there boy! You're technique was even better than mine!" as a Stanford Indian lays crashed in a barn with 2 hoof prints on his behind with the Caption "Horses! Horses! Horses! He just can't do a Goldarn Thing With Horses."

Gag 3
A USC Trojan sits in a Chair with a Dunce Cap on his Big Toe and a Newspaper nearby that states "Notre Dame 13, Trojans 12. Failure to Kick Goal Loses Game for Trojans." With the Caption "Of all the words of Tongue or Pen - The Saddest are these: It Might Have Been."

Gag 4
Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels is Depicted holding back a gang of football players with Cartoonishly elongated arms with the Caption "The Significance of that Number 'Eleven' is Obvious - A Whole Football Team Just by Itself."

SIZE - 21.5" x 23" Wide

CONDITION - Excellent for Age and Use. Yellowing of Paper with Pinholes at Corners and Sides and a bit of Water Damage at Top Right.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jimmy Hatlo was an American cartoonist who created in 1929 the long-running comic strip and gag panel They'll Do It Every Time, which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963. Hatlo's other strip, Little Iodine, was adapted into a feature-length movie in 1946.

In an opinion piece for the July 22, 2013, Wall Street Journal, "A Tip of the Hat to Social Media's Granddad," veteran journalist Bob Greene characterized Hatlo's daily cartoons, which credited readers who contributed the ideas, as a forerunner of Facebook and Twitter. Greene wrote: "Hatlo's genius was to realize, before there was any such thing as an Internet or Facebook or Twitter, that people in every corner of the country were brimming with seemingly small observations about mundane yet captivating matters, yet lacked a way to tell anyone outside their own circles of friends about it. Hatlo also understood that just about everyone, on some slightly-below-the-surface level, yearned to be celebrated from coast to coast, if only for a day."

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