Who drew those 'Army Life' cartoons...
...that appear on the backdrop/curtain during the "Gee, But I Wish I Was Back In The Army" number? I have watched this movie countless times, but it wasn't until the last couple of viewings that I started wondering: "Where have I seen cartoons about soldiers like that before?"
Maybe because I got some books on WWII-era cartooning as gifts...one was about the work of Bill Mauldin ("Willie and Joe")...the other was about the wartime comic strips by Roy Crane ("Buz Sawyer")...and I started to wonder.
Were those images just something done in generic WWII-era style by an anonymous studio artist at Paramount? Or were they professionally done by a well-known graphic artist or cartoonist?
I stopped the film and looked more closely...they resemble something out of Fifties comic books..."Beetle Bailey" (by Mort Walker) and "The Sad Sack" (by George Baker) come to mind.
Anyone else notice those drawings...and wonder who drew them? They are very well-done cartooning. They even show a soldier reading a comic book. Inside joke, maybe?
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