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Jan 21, 2022

Some of the first cartoons my Grandparents sold back in 1940s and 1950s these were all donated to The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum - Thank You from The Smiths for all that you do





 
































































































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  • Mt Angel Home for Cartoonist Family - Monday October- 1st - 1951 - The Boston Globe Daily
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  • Celestial Cuisine fit for the Gods Indescribably Delicious Incredibly Tasty - Rapture - Bliss - Ambrosia - Nirvana
        
  • THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE - JUNE 27 1954
     
  • THE PROBLEM WITH MAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HE LOOKS AT THINGS RATHER INTO THINGS -
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Cartoonist George Smith and his wife Virginia began "The Smith Family" comic strip in 1950, after they had to call the fire department to rescue one of their youngsters from a treetop. Virginia and George had ten girls and one boy 44 grandchildren 118 great grandchildren and were once the subject of a protest by the Planned Parenthood League. Smith says The Boston Globe was the first newspaper to buy his comic strip. "The Smith Family" comic strip ran in the Globe for nearly 50 years. The Globe rescued me from plodding around the streets of New York free-lancing cartoons to magazines.
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  • -Ginny it looks like Dolores has something in her mouth take a look.
  • × The Interior News SMITHERS BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA Wednesday December 9 1987
  • 100 Monkeys Story By George
  • 1941 - 1942 - These are some of the oldest cartoons I have been able to find - Elk's Magazine - George Smith finished his Art program at the Pratt Institute in 1941
  • 1941-1942 - Early WW2 Cartoons by George Smith - Liberty Magazine
  • 1942 - One man's Burst is another man's Dud - The Comic's go to War
  • 1944 - In San Francisco alone 21000 Smiths are registered - In New York there are 14000 Smiths of whom 1500 are J J Smiths 300 are John J Smiths and 80 are J A Smiths
  • 1944 PVT Geo Smith - LAUGH IT OFF - by Marione R Derrickson Post script's editor
  • 1946 - 1950 - ESQUIRE The Magazine for Men - George Smith
  • 1946 - 1951 American Legion Magazine
  • 1946 Liberty Magazine
  • 1946 September Issue -True Magazine - Dr Quinlan just discovered what's wrong with my stomach
  • 1946 The Best Cartoons of The Year - Pic Magazine - Reader's Scope - Liberty- Collier's -American Legion
  • 1947 - Oh Alice Poor Alice
  • 1947-1948 PIC Magazine
  • 1948 - LOS ANGELES TIMES - Sunday Feb 8
  • 1948 - A Cartoon Sequence by George Smith - American Legion Magazine
  • 1948 - Parting Shots - American Legion Magazine
  • 1948 - Parting Shots American Legon Magazine
  • 1948 -1950
  • 1948 -1954 - The Los Angeles Times PAGE 193 Sunday February 14 - Don't worry Honey - Don't let George do it - Lucky Eighth
  • 1948 PIC Magazine - Whats Funny about It?
  • 1948-1951 Parting Shots American Legion Magazine
  • 1949 - Argosy Magazine & The American Magazine
  • 1949 - Bring me an old rag dear.
  • 1949 March - Argosy Magazine - Geo Smith
  • 1951 - KIP what are you doing - Blowing Bubbles
  • 1951 - The Boston Globe
  • 1951- Father Smith in the flesh with Virginia 7 -Ellen 2- Christine 14 months- and Kathleen 3 1/2
  • 1951- I'M GIVING UP GUM-DROPS FOR THE NEW YEAR- IM GIVING UP BATHS!- IM GIVING UP- Merry Christmas from 1951
  • 1951- THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
  • 1951-1955 - Boston Globe
  • 1952 - Anything for Thanksgiving Daddy ?
  • 1952 - Kip - Ellen -Tina - Hoppy Cisco Wild Bill !!
  • 1954
  • 1954 - December runs 12/1 - 12/4 - 12/6 - 12/8 - 12/11 - 12/ 13 - 12/15
  • 1955 - Best Cartoons selected by the editors of TRUE The Man's Magazine
  • 1955 - Oh No - Here comes that Miss Feasance from "Planned Parenthood Group" With a lot of Hooey about the Horrors of a large family!
  • 1955-1958 The Boston Globe
  • 1960 - 1961 - Jersey City - New Jersey - Poor Pop - By George
  • 1960-63 Poor Pop
  • 1961-1962 Poor Pop By George
  • 1964 Fort Worth Star
  • 1968 - Georgie slipped 3 packets of dye into Suzy's bath -
  • 1970's Daily Comic Strips
  • 1982 - Ruminations - It Occurred to me this A.M That the Advent of the Bomb ended the idea of "Defending Sovereignty'
  • 1988 - 1997 -The Prattville Progress - Alabama - The Garbage You Are Now Will Rot Into The Manure You Will Be Someday- The Stuff Out Of Which Rich Personality Grows -
  • 1988 - Burns Lake
  • 1997 - The Prattville Progress - Prattville ALABAMA
  • 25 years of Post cartoons Cartoon Festival by Marione R Nickles
  • 46 is a Murderous Age - A life of ease self indulgence rotten diet Are beginning to take their toll The Grim Reapers taken notice
  • A comics perspective As a child
  • A dollar went a long ways back in 1952
  • A four page Cartoon Sequence By GEORGE SMITH November 1948 Mom is Sick- American Legion Magazine
  • A scab is a beautiful thing - A coin the body has minted - With an invisible motto - In God We Trust - Our body loves us
  • Ah the Poor Weeping Willow - You poor tree don't be sad - Mom I think Carol blew her stack !
  • American Legion 1948 Book of Humor and Cartoons
  • An old familiar friend has changed her image
  • AND TO BLISS WE GO AND MERGE AGAIN - WHAT IS THE SMILE THAT INVESTS ALL SMILES?
  • April - 9 - 1949 - The Saturday Evening Post
  • Are you ready for your stewed prunes Tish -
  • Argosy Magazine - April - 1950 - Number Please - By George Smith -
  • Aspirin is here mam - Just stack it in the Garage
  • Awww sniff it woulda fell troo anyway.
  • BABS goes along with everything you say Dad - Celestial signs the Exquisite and Constant Order of all Things I am Ravished and Amazed....
  • Baltimore Sun
  • BERTHA - Dog Fancy Magazine
  • British Columbia Canada
  • Brute Force that is JACK-ASS Power Leaves us un-gratified restless fretful and bored sick - Man has no being only a history- An old sage once shrewdly observed - Selfishness is Nothingness
  • By Mr and Mrs George Smith 1951
  • By Mr and Mrs Smith
  • Cartoon Classics from Medical Economics 1963
  • Cartoon's from 1946 - 1949
  • Cartoons
  • Celestial Cuisine fit for the Gods Indescribably Delicious Incredibly Tasty - Rapture - Bliss - Ambrosia - Nirvana
  • Chorklit Cake Meatloaf Creamed Banana's & Biscuits - Visible Investure of The Creative - Throbbing Heart of the Ground of All Being - Vibrant Sacred Cradle !!
  • Comic Relief - Drawings from the Cartoonists Thanksgiving day Hunger Project
  • Complete Runs - April 1954 - 4/16 - 4/30 - Nov - 11/1-11/15 - August - 8/16 - 8/21
  • Dear Lucretia Van Landers Some of the advice you dish out is really Pew
  • Don't Worry Honey by George Smith - Wile Mrs. Smith was in the hospital presenting George our cartoonist with his fifth daughter he took charge at home
  • Drawing principles with The Smith Family
  • Eleven Bambino's
  • Epilogue - Father Smith in the flesh
  • Everything you have you Owe to Dirt - Dirty Is Beautiful
  • February 1954
  • February and December 1950 True magazine Gags by George Smith
  • First Day Of School
  • Fort Worth Star Telegram 1964-1970 - Oh SUZY how could you ?
  • From the very Beginning Men and Women have had nothing in Common Except STUPIDITY They was given brains and All they
  • Full Page Daily Comic Sections 1951-1997
  • Fun Love Confusion
  • Gee it must be wonderful to have a brother and eight sister's Tish.
  • Gee Suzy was right -That Was A Ham n Cheese Ketchup OL Sock Toot Paste an Paper Napkin Samwich!!
  • George and Virginia
  • George and Virginia photos with family.
  • George Smith is the Father of 12 knows first hand the hopes needs and desires of the forgotten children at Christmas time
  • George Smith served as chief artist for the 58th Signal Battalion during WW2-
  • George Smith was well known for his wordless cartoons. He was very clever at just letting the picture tell the story 1948-1950.
  • Georgie where Ya been keeping Yaself I missed Ya all day - WOW All day long Politicians Prattling!!
  • Ginny where did you get that Divine outfit - Oh we shop in the most Exclusive shops Sacks Ginsbergs....
  • Grandma & Grandpa
  • Grandma says you're in your second childhood
  • Guy on TV described us As - The Grandeur Of Reason In Existence - Just before the news - I have trouble with That.....
  • HE WHO LAUGHS LASTS.
  • Here is a little family scene when there were only eight children
  • Hmm I wonder if Carol is to young to go to the store. Carol I want you to go get me a pound of butter.
  • HOW ABOUT A HORSEBACK RIDE DAD- HI-O SILVER
  • Humorama was a line of risque gag cartoon and pin up digests from the late 1950s and 1960s. The group included some 20 titles: Jest Joker Eyeful Romp Stare Snappy Zippy Breezy
  • I don't know what I would do if it wasn't for Mr Smith.
  • I Figured it out That a Mother of Nine Cooks 1085 meals a year Walks 1800 miles Gives 450 spankings Washes 3 tons of dishes monthly Changes 4000000...
  • I Had a wild garlic sandwich What did you have?
  • I Love You Mom
  • I'm YA LiL Brother Georgie - Well WHATSA idea following me around- GWAN home !
  • Illustrated by George Smith How it was a Humorous look at Catholic parenting in the 50s
  • It turned out to be the SMITH kids I was to sit with all Eleven of them - How GHASTLY!
  • July -10 -1951- Meet The Smith Family
  • July 1942 - Private. George Smith
  • June 1951
  • June 1951 - GAGS Magazine
  • Kip -Ginny - Ellen- Tina- Lorraine - Tish- Carol- Dolores- Georgie- Suzy- Babs work on the bathrooms theyre a fright!
  • LA FAMILIA SMITH - La cena esta lista
  • Let the Women run the World - It could only get better - Would a Sweet Jewish Momma Do Like Menachem Begin?
  • Life Is A Little More Fun Than Before - I didn't know The Smith Family made it all the way down to BRAZIL
  • Like many young artists in the late ’40s George Smith contributed gag cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post most of these cartoons are from the year 1947
  • Like my new dress Dear?
  • Lucky Eighth. George Smith had about given up the idea of having a son when along came number 8 and Bingo!
  • Made with LOVE by Tishy for Charley
  • Magazine cartoons from the early days
  • May 1951 - Gags Magazine -George Smith
  • May-20-1953 The Boston Globe - LA FAMILIA SMITH - La cena esta lista !
  • Meet The Smith Family - The Evansville Courier PAGE 2 Evansville Indiana Sunday May 02 1954
  • Merry Christmas from The Smith Family -
  • MIND THE BABY
  • MOM Irving gave me half his puddy Cats!
  • Mr Quinlan's window just fell apart - Penny for your thoughts - Sweet Pertater Sour Punkin Pie -
  • Mt Angel Home for Cartoonist Family - Monday October- 1st - 1951 - The Boston Globe Daily
  • Much Love From "The Smith's" Virginia and George Smith
  • My Aunt Virginia Mary "Ginny" Smith 3/24/1943 - 12/08/2008 She was my grandparent's first of eleven children - My Mom Babs is the the baby in the photos below was the last child
  • My Dad said Jewish Mammas can Cure Anything
  • My reply from Lucretia Van Landers should come today
  • Never hear of senior delinquents except among Politicians around election time - Baboons act just like people or more correctly People act just like Baboons...
  • Never underestimate the power of a women - Superabundance of Destructiveness WE Have !!
  • Oakland Tribune Sunday 1955
  • October 1941 The American Legion Magazine
  • October- 24-1951 - Ginny go get me a Can of Beans for Supper
  • OH Dolores not with the Stuffing from the chair - Yeah im a big girl now - Almost as big as Ginny -Kip-Ellen-
  • Original Art work - By George Smith
  • Original Art Work By George Smith
  • Original Art Work by George Smith Single panel's
  • Original artwork from the 1980's - I Never saw anyone react as Bernies dog did to your cookies.
  • OUR MOST CONSPICUOOUSLY ABSENT PRECIOUS RESOURCE IS THE GRANDMOTHER ADVISOR CONFIDANTE AND PRESSURE VALVE-
  • Overcoming Separation Manifesting Love - Social Evolution is in Full Flood
  • Pity the money Grubbers Champions of Ugly - Grasping - Greedy - Ravishing - Plundering - Blind to all but Profit -Reducing strong men to Sniveling Tosspots !!
  • POOR POP by George Smith Was a daily cartoon feature about fathers everywhere
  • Post Scripts 1951
  • PRESS TO OPEN -1949-1950- By George Smith -The Star Tribune
  • Pucker Up Sweetie Pie
  • Quesnel Cariboo Observer QUESNEL BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA Sunday March 15 1992
  • Quinlan Sporting Goods
  • Random newspaper articles
  • RUMINATION'S - Charley my 2 1/2 year old Grandson
  • Rusty can ride a bike - Oh what A Kook
  • Saturday evening post cartoons
  • September - 1950 - GAGS Magazine - George Smith
  • September -1946 original issue of PIC Magazine -The Magazine For Young Men - PICartoons By Geo Smith Back to college issue
  • She Had to say it right in front of Suzy!
  • she starred in her dad's syndicated strip. Today she shares her humor on stage.
  • SMATTER BABS - ALL THE ILLS OF MAN
  • SMATTER GEORGIE? WONDER IF HE'S GONNA BE ABLE TO GIVE UP BUBBLING
  • SMITH'S By Mr and Mrs George Smith
  • Smithereens 1951-1953
  • SMITTY OLD BOY
  • Smörgåsbord
  • Some of the first cartoons my Grandparents sold back in 1940s and 1950s these were all donated to The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum - Thank You for all that you do
  • Sunday Globe
  • Suzy is acting a bit droopy
  • Teachers strike was called off
  • Teenage Women give second spot to The Smith Family in 1973 for most popular read comic strip in America.
  • That Toward Which All Life Drives- The Grin Gives Life - The Grimace Death
  • The Artist who draws The Smith Family has somehow caught the realization and breaks through the funny antics giving us a Welcome glimpse of Rare Beauty and Virtue
  • The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE MARYLAND Sunday June 17 1956
  • THE BEST CARTOONS OF THE YEAR 1948 - Edited by Lawrence Lariar
  • THE BEST CARTOONS OF THE YEAR 1951
  • The Book "The Saturday Evening Post Cartoons" edited by John Bailey who was the cartoon editor of the post. Fun fact Cartoonist Mort Walker creator of Beetle Bailey named Beetle after John Bailey
  • The Boston Globe BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS Friday August 24 1951
  • The Boston Globe Daily
  • THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE - JUNE 27 1954
  • The Courier-Journal LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY Saturday October 18 1952
  • The Creative Love That Binds All Things Frowns and is Saddened at the very Thought of Violence and Destruction
  • The Difference Between Wise and Smart Is ?
  • The Grand Desing Unfolds With Man Plainly The Center Of It All
  • The Honolulu Advertiser HONOLULU HAWAII Sunday April 15 1962
  • The Manly Art of Self Defense
  • The Oakland Tribune 1955
  • THE OREGONIAN
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer/ April- 16 - 1972
  • THE PROBLEM WITH MAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HE LOOKS AT THINGS RATHER INTO THINGS -
  • The Radiance of LOVE
  • The Sacred Fire Should Warm The World.
  • The Smith Family Sunday Comics
  • The Smith Family by Mr and Mrs Smith -This would be the first cartoon I have seen signed PAPPA SMITH by my Grandpa -1952 - Courier Journal Louisville Ky
  • The Smith Family Daily
  • THE SMITH FAMILY DAILY. by Mr. and Mrs. George Smith.
  • The Smith Family Prayer for the new year.
  • The Smith Family ranked 20th in popularity But by the next poll it had caught on so well that its rating soared to No 7
  • The Smith Family Sunday and Daily
  • The Ultrasynthetic Sphere of thought....
  • The Washington Star Syndicate
  • There are Countless suggestions from the Depth Dimension that we be Generous Caring Sympathetic Kind to each other
  • There seems to be something Really Quite Contrary about Mary
  • There was a bug in that salad Suzy made for you Dad.
  • This and That was a daily cartoon feature from the George Matthew Adams Syndicate. George Smith was a regular contributor.
  • THREE BILLION YEARS LATER - AND WE STILL DON'T SEEM TO BE ANY WISER
  • Times-Advocate ESCONDIDO CALIFORNIA Sunday September 28 1975
  • True magazine
  • True Magazine was founded in 1944. The magazine flourished throughout the 1940s and 1950s becoming known as a major venue for comic artwork.
  • Viva La Rat !
  • We have a new baby named Suzanne.
  • WE MUST LEARN TO LOVE THE LOWLY DANDELION. IT IS SURELY A DANDY LITTLE FELLOW
  • WELL YES.... I SUPPOSE UP TO THIS POINT LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE BUT.....
  • WHASAMATTER GEORGIE PORGIE?
  • What a Great Day For us When We Discover " THE GLOW OF OUR BEING" "Really does Outshine Every Star" ! What We Really are!
  • What are you going to be when you grow up?
  • Where do we go for wisdom?
  • WHERE'S YOUR FAITH MAN
  • WHY AM I ? WHO AM I? WHAT AM I?
  • WHY IS THE WORLD SUCH A BOTCH GRANDPA?
  • You look pale my brother
  • YOU MUST LOVE EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
  • You suerly don't think the OLD FUDDY DUDDIES would send THEMSELVES to WAR!!
  • You're The Priceless Unique Sacred Irreplaceable One For Whom The Galaxy Was Made - Heavens Masterpiece !!!!

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