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Thursday, 6 October 2011

Harry Devlin: From Serious to Zany

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During Harry Devlin's ten year association with Collier's magazine, he was often called upon to create editorial cartoons that graced the back page of each weekly issue.

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Here once again, Devlin demonstrated his admirable range - from more realistic, serious and illustrative...

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... to lighthearted...

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... to outright zany.

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Devlin generally reserved his most hilarious stylings for those occasions when he was called upon to illustrate Collier's popular "Q&A" series of articles.

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Here are a few more for your amusement. In my opinion, they'd have felt just as at home in the pages of Mad magazine as in Collier's.

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