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(34) When a Feller Needs a Friend. When You Meet Her Daddy and Somehow You Feel So Inadequate, 1923.
Published by N.Y. Tribune, Inc., November 5, 1923.
Ink over graphite underdrawing with paste-on.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03607 (34)
Capturing moments in the lives of everyday Americans, Clare Briggs (1875 - 1930) looked back on the past with a wistful nostalgia. His sense of humor appealed to Americans looking toward the simple past as they faced a changing society, when airplanes, automobiles, and radios made rapid communication possible in the 1920s. Briggs drew cartoons that dealt with the challenges in coming of age, relationships between men and women, and especially feelings, from inadequacy to joy. At the time of his death, Briggs was one of the top visual humorists in the field of cartooning. |