Betty Sunday by CA Voight from 1/24/1937 Very Large Full Size Page GGA

Description: This is a "Betty" Sunday Page by CA Voight. This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday Comics section of 1937. Size: Full Size: 15 x 22 inches. Paper: some light tanning, some slightly trimmed, some may have archival reinforcement along mid-fold, otherwise: Very Good! Pulled from Bound Volumes! (Please Check Scans) Please include $6.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $25.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls. Thanks for Looking! Charles A. Voight BornApril 28, 1887 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. DiedFebruary 10, 1947 (aged 59) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Area(s)Cartoonist Notable worksBetty Charles Anthony Voight (April 28, 1887 – February 10, 1947) was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip Betty. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, Voight was 14 when he dropped out of school and became an art staffer at the New York World. During this period, he also did advertising art. Comic strips In 1908, he drew his first comic strip, Petey Dink, for the Boston Traveler. When it moved to the New York Herald it became simply Petey (sometimes titled Poor Little Petey). He also drew for the New York World, and for Life, he created a series titled The Optimist. His popular glamor girl Sunday strip Betty began in 1919 with the McClure Syndicate, moving to the New York Herald Syndicate with the April 4, 1925, edition. Comics historian Don Markstein described the strip and characters: Betty Thompson's life was filled with cocktail parties, cotillions and affairs of that nature. She wore all the latest high-class fashions, amply displayed by Voight's lush, stylish and highly individual illustration. While Tillie the Toiler, very much a working girl, may seem to have little in common with Betty, they had one strong point of similarity. Both went through handsome, dashing men by the carload, but through the years stuck with one short, dumpy, seemingly uninteresting guy. Betty's equivalent of Tillie's Mac was Lester DePester, who had little going for him besides loyalty... During the 1930s, heyday of the adventure comic (lesser ones including Dan Dunn and Red Barry), Voight experimented with storylines about crime and sci-fi. But this didn't stop the page from looking like a 1925s period piece. Its datedness may have had something to do with the fact that despite the obvious quality of the work, Betty never moved out into other media, such as movies and radio shows. Or it may have been more attributable to the times, in which stories about rich people didn't speak to the American public. Betty was an influential strip, notably on the illustrator and comic book artist Bernard Krigstein. Jerry Robinson, in his book The Comics: An Illustrated History of the Comic Strip, commented: The classic beauty was seen in Betty. Charles Voight employed an exquisite pen style in defining the visual delights of the long-legged, cool sophisticate in the extreme fashion of the day, including beachwear that revealed areas not previously shown in the comic pages. Voight continued to do artwork for advertising agencies, such as his 1932 Rinso Soap ads. Comic books After Betty ended its run in 1943, Voight began drawing for comic books, including He-Man in Tally-Ho Comics (1944) and work for Prize Comics (1945). In 1946, he drew Impossible Man for Captain Wizard and the superhero satire Captain Milksop for Atomic Bomb Comics #1. Voight lived for a time in Pelham, New York. When Fontaine Fox first came to visit his friend Voight, he rode the Pelham trolley that inspired him to create the Toonerville Trolley for his long-running cartoon panel, Toonerville Folks. *Please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job I can usually only mail packages out on Saturdays. I send out Priority Mail which takes 2-3 days to arrive in the USA and Air Mail International which takes 5 -10 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an Archival Sleeve with Acid Free Backing Board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and I will do my best to make it right. Many Thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the World. Enjoy Your Hobby Everyone and Have Fun Collecting!

Price: 10 USD

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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