April 12, 2024
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ARTWORK 6/24/30- POP MOMAND
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KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' ORIGINAL COMICART...............6/24/30............ARTHUR (POP)MOMAND. .................................. LAST ONE! Pop Momand's art is definitive period art--bigfoot style cartooning that dominated the 1920s-30s. His strip Keeping Up With the Joneses' is a true classic and originals from it a fairly rare..In a lot of years of looking, I've seen very few examples. This one has blue pencil Ben Day rendering in the third panel. Arthur R. Momand was an early American newspaper comic artist. he was born in San Diego, and attended the Trinity School in New York City. He began his career as a sketch artist for The New York World in 1907. In 1916, he created the strip 'Keeping up with the Joneses', a title that would go down in history as a phrase meaning trying to keep up with the standards of your acquaintances. Momand drew his parody of American domestic life until 1945, and always signed it Pop. Underneath the strip ran a tier strip, called 'Cat Tales'. Afterwards, Momand became a portrait painter in Manhattan. He died in a New York hospital in 1987, at the age of 101. "According to his own account, cartoonist Arthur R. ("Pop") Momand lived in a community w many people tried to keep up with the Joneses. Momand and his wife resided in Cedarhurst, New York, one of Long Island's Five Towns, w the average income
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