Gardner Rea (1894 – December 29, 1966) was an American cartoonist, and one of the original contributing artists to The New Yorker.[1] Of Rea, one commentator has written: “He was bawdy without being obscene, absurd without being obscure. His captioned and uncaptioned gags were pithy and true.”[2]
A native of Ironton, Ohio, Rea was born into an artistic family and planned to become a painter. When he was fifteen years old, he sold a gag cartoon to Life magazine.[1]
He began contributing not only drawings and covers but also gags to The New Yorker after it was founded in 1925.[1] Artists such as Charles Addams and Helen Hokinson drew cartoons based on gags written by Rea.[1]
Gardner Rea in the mid 1930s was a regular contributor to the Communist Party's literary magazine "New Masses," with work appearing in nearly every weekly issues in the years 1936 and 1937.[4]
References
^ abcdefgh. Brookhaven/South Haven.org. December 29, 1966. Archived from the original on November 24, 2009. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
^Heller, Steven (September 24, 2009). "Rah Rah Rah for Gardner Rea". Print magazine. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
^Lee, Judith Yaross (2000). Defining New Yorker humor: Studies in popular culture. University Press of Mississippi. p. 377n. ISBN9781578061983.
^"New Masses 1926-1948 archive]". Early American Marxism. January 26, 2020.
External links
Gardner Rea cartoons at the New Yorker's Cartoon Bank
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