Fine early original pen & ink cartoon drawing by Irving Breger.  Breger’s cartoons can be found in the 1930’s Saturday Evening Post, Colliers and New Yorker magazines.  Additionally, he was included in the cartoon compendiums, “The Judge” (1938) and “Cartoon Cavalcade” 1943.  He was a resident of Evanston, Illinois and filed (1929) and received a design patent (1930) for a watch face that would use his cartoon character’s hands as sweeping time keepers (Des. 82,245).  That would pre-date the first Mickey Mouse watch by 3 years as I understand it.  Another famous cartoonist named David Breger who produced the GI Joe comic strip was from Chicago.  I was not able to tie the two together and found only one reference in the artist Aaron Bohrod’s archive that lists correspondence with cartoonists “Dave and Irv Breger.”  If not related, it would be difficult to believe they didn’t at least know of each other. 

This great original drawing was done on what appears to be a page from a high school or college yearbook that reads on both sides…Photographs of My Classmates.  The inscription on the cartoon reads, “July 20, 1926, Duly performed for Frieda Tenenbaum by Irving Breger.  Our Young Generation – She – ‘Gosh, why don’t you shave?  Your whiskers scratch worse than Harry’s!’  He – ‘Yea – that’s what Alice told me last night.”  The pen & ink work on this is exquisite.  The page is somewhat unevenly trimmed and the bottom left corner is creased and there is a light bend along the right edge from top to bottom.  It measures 7 x 7 inches. 

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