"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
The charming Christmas cartoon by Hilda Terry that you see above was scanned by me yesterday, on Christmas Eve, from a vintage Christmas card that I purchased for a couple of bucks on ebay earlier this year. Hope you like it!
With best wishes,
RC
Below are the last ten pages of the comic book A-1 #15 (Teena #3), a collection of strips by Hilda Terry:
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Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 1 to 10 (post 1 of 3)
Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 11 to 20 (post 2 of 3)
Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 21 to 30 (post 3 of 3)<–YOU ARE HERE
Check out the Hilda Terry category here at RCN for more comic strips and book covers by a first-rate cartoonist whose work is absolutely crying out to be reprinted!
Below are the second ten pages of the comic book A-1 #15 (Teena #3), a collection of strips by Hilda Terry:
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Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 1 to 10 (post 1 of 3)
Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 11 to 20 (post 2 of 3)<–YOU ARE HERE
Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 21 to 30 (post 3 of 3)
Check out the Hilda Terry category here at RCN for more comic strips and book covers by the cartoonist who drew teenagers as beautifully as anyone in comics ever has!
Below are the first ten pages of the comic book A-1 #15, also identified in the indicia as Teena #3, a collection of strips by Hilda Terry:
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Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 1 to 10 (post 1 of 3)<–YOU ARE HERE
Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 11 to 20 (post 2 of 3)
Look Here, Read: TEENA #3 by Hilda Terry, pages 21 to 30 (post 3 of 3)
Check out the Hilda Terry category here at RCN for more comic strips and book covers by — who else? — Hilda Terry!
Apologies in advance for the poor quality of the images this time around: I scanned all nine of the single-panel comics by Hilda Terry displayed below — seven from 1942, two from 1945 — from printouts that I made from microfilm of back issues of The Saturday Evening Post. I’ve made some adjustments to my scans of the printouts to make them more readable, but they’re definitely a lot rougher than I’d like. And yet, I still think they’re well worth posting. Enjoy!
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Publication information is in the file names. Looks like I forgot to record the day and month of the issue of The Saturday Evening Post from 1942 that included the comic with the caption, “We just came in for a glass of water!” I also neglected to record the page numbers. Sorry!
To see more energetic and attractive work by the wonderful Hilda Terry, start here.
Light and Fantastic by Winifred Wolfe, with cover art by Hilda Terry (author of the underrated comic strip, Teena — see here, here, and here), is the second in-card novel that I’ve posted here at RCN. The first was Ask Any Girl by the same author, with cover art by the same artist. In that case, I posted four different covers; this time, I have five:
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From my previous post, here’s what an “in-card” novel looks like with the various flaps folded out:
I wonder how many people ever actually tried to seal one of these up and send it…
From the paperback library of yours truly, four “In-Card” paperbacks with cover art by Hilda Terry:
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What’s an “In-Card”? Simply put, it’s a paperback book with a special cover that allows it to double as a greeting card and triple as a postcard. The following rough composite explains all:
I have more “In-Card” paperbacks, all with covers by Hilda Terry. So stay tuned for further “In-Card” posts… at a later date…
Back in 2008, Mike Lynch posted a bunch of cartoons that he had scanned from Ever Since Adam and Eve, edited by Alfred Andriola and Mel Casson, who dedicated the book to the National Cartoonists Society. Here are the links:
Featured artists include Alfred Andriola, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Walter Berndt, Milton Caniff, Irwin Caplan, Al Capp, George Clark, Chon Day, Gregory D’Alessio, Harry Devlin, Rube Goldberg, Harry Hanan, Al Hirschfeld, Hank Ketcham, Frank King, George Lichty, Marty Links, Kate Osann, Russell Patterson, Alex Raymond, Carl Rose, Charles Schulz, Ronald Searle, Barbara Schermund, Noel Sickles, Otto Soglow, Henry Syverson, J. W. Taylor, Hilda Terry, and Mort Walker.
Quite a few heavy hitters in there, I think you’ll agree. But of all the cartoons and drawings from Ever Since Adam and Eve that Mike posted, here’s the one that interests me most:
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The artist is Gregory d’Alessio, and the model is his wife, cartoonist Hilda Terry, whose work has been featured several times here at RCN:
In addition to being a syndicated cartoonist, a painter, and an influential guitar music enthusiast, Gregory d’Alessio was vice-president of the Art Students League in New York from 1937 to 1944 and was an instructor in drawing at the League from 1960 until his death in 1993 at the age of 88. D’Alessio’s wife of 55 years, Hilda Terry, also became a regular instructor at the League in the 1980s (after her “retirement”), teaching a class in drawing twice a week, and continued in that capacity, near as I can tell, pretty much right up until her death in 2006 at age 92.
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A reader by the name of Tim recently posted to say that he would love to see more of Hilda Terry’s “Teena” here at RCN. Well, Tim, today is your lucky day! Because just this morning I scanned ten more “Teena” Sunday strips for your (and my, and everyone else’s) reading pleasure. And here they are (with more to come at a later date, if reader response is good — 😉 ):
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Now I’m no expert in publishing, but I have long thought that the good folks at Drawn & Quarterly ought to make a concerted effort to acquire the rights to reprint “Teena,” from start to finish, in a series of archive collections. Because it seems to me that Hilda Terry would fit in perfectly on D&Q’s current author list alongside John Stanley, Kate Beaton, Tove Jansson, Doug Wright, and Lynda Barry. And I’m almost certain that cartoonist and comics historian Trina Robbins would jump at the chance to assist with (or edit!) such a project. So hop to it Chris Oliveros! Make it happen!
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