Herbert Johnson (Oct 30, 1878–Oct 13, 1946) was an American
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
. He drew
political cartoons
A political cartoon, a form of editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist. They typically combine ...
in the 1930s and also cartoon covers for magazines including ''
Saturday Evening Post
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'' and ''
Country Gentleman
''The Country Gentleman'' (1852–1955) was an American agricultural magazine founded in 1852 in Albany, New York, by Luther Tucker.Frank Luther Mott (1938A History of American Magazines 1850–1865"The Country Gentleman", page 432, Harvard Unive ...
''.
References
External links
Cartoons by Herbert Johnson at the Library of Congress
1878 births
1946 deaths
American cartoonists
People from Clay County, Nebraska
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