"...25 pounds of potatoes, 5 pounds of sugar..." (Gag Cartoon by George Smith)

 

"I never saw anyone so stubborn!" (This Week)

 

"That's what the little basin is for, dear!" (Liberty Magazine)

 

"Santa Who?" George Smith's Globe Santa Cartoons (The Boston Globe)

George Smith drew these cartoons for The Boston Globe's Globe Santa campaign, which collects toys for children at Christmas. The Globe noted that Smith, creator of The Smith Family and the father of 12, "knows first hand the hopes, needs, and desires of little ones at Christmas time." Also included is a "Bertha" gag panel: "Isn't Bertha carrying this begging routine a bit far?"

 

The Smith Family: "Grow Up, Will Ya?" and Other Daily Strips

"I guess I'm just not hungry." (Original Art by George Smith)

"I suggest waiting until it hardens." (The Saturday Evening Post, February 25, 1950)

Patience is a virtue, especially on a fresh sidewalk. In this George Smith gag from the February 25, 1950 Saturday Evening Post, a stubbled man in a long coat stands at a BUS STOP sign reading his paper, ankle-deep in wet cement, with a trail of footprints behind him, while two workmen with a wheelbarrow and shovel offer their advice.

Details

• Publication: The Saturday Evening Post
• Issue date: February 25, 1950 (Vol. 222, No. 35)
• Printed page: 62
• Caption: "I suggest waiting until it hardens."
• Signature: script scrawl, lower right (reads as "Geo. Smith")

"I didn't know you could skate backward." (The Saturday Evening Post, November 5, 1949)

Some skating lessons are learned the cold way. In this George Smith gag from the November 5, 1949 Saturday Evening Post, a soaked skater with icicles hanging off his sweater and cap glides away from a fresh hole in the pond ice near a warning sign. A small kid in a pom-pom cap skates alongside him, impressed by the wrong thing.

Details

• Publication: The Saturday Evening Post
• Issue date: November 5, 1949 (Vol. 222, No. 19)
• Printed page: 133
• Caption: "I didn't know you could skate backward."
• Signature: script scrawl, lower right (reads as "Geo. Smith")

AFTER-DINNER SPEAKER (The Saturday Evening Post, July 17, 1948)

George Smith tells this whole story without a single word. In four panels across the bottom of a page in the July 17, 1948 Saturday Evening Post, a banquet speaker rises and gets more and more worked up. The poor guest sitting beside him gets the worst of it. Anyone who has sat through a long dinner speech will understand.

Details

• Publication: The Saturday Evening Post
• Issue date: July 17, 1948 (Vol. 221, No. 3)
• Printed page: 92
• Title: AFTER-DINNER SPEAKER (wordless, four panels)
• Signature: scrawled script signature, lower right of the last panel
• Source: archive.org scan

"Everything was fine till you yelled, 'Pull over!'" (The Saturday Evening Post, June 12, 1948)

Here's a back-seat driver with a lot to answer for. In this George Smith gag from the June 12, 1948 Saturday Evening Post, a car has ended up wrapped right around the post of a ONE WAY sign. The two people inside are tangled up on top of it. The driver knows exactly who to blame.

Details

• Publication: The Saturday Evening Post
• Issue date: June 12, 1948 (Vol. 220, No. 50)
• Printed page: 103
• Caption: "Everything was fine till you yelled, 'Pull over!'"
• Signature: "G. Smith '47" in script, lower right
• Source: archive.org scan