A Bio Of One Clubber, D.T. Carlisle
If you read yesterday’s Spill post, you might remember I singled out D.T. Carlisle — an Ink Spill one clubber (One Club members have but one drawing appear in The New Yorker in their career). In a segment where I was speaking of the nearly 700 cartoonists who have contributed to the magazine thus far, I said this:
Quite a crew, these nearly 700 contributors. Some remain a mystery to me — their bios lost to time. For instance: what ever happened to D.T. Carlisle who had one drawing in the issue of July 23, 1938, and then never another. Who was D.T. Carlisle? I may never know.
Well thanks to The Daily Cartoonist‘s D.D. Degg alerting me to Alex Jay’s fine work on The Stripper’s Guide, I now know more about D.T. Carlisle than I know about most of my own relatives.
Below, from Mr. Jay’s Carlisle entry on The Stripper’s Guide, is just a tidbit of his research on Mr. Carlisle:
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The earliest signs of Carlisle’s budding artistic talent were in the children’s publication, St. Nicholas. The April 1905 issue featured his art (above) and the July 1905 issue included Carlisle for his drawing. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 1934, said Carlisle “was a cartoonist on the Chicago Tribune when but 14 years old.”
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And Now….The Twist:
Here’s where this story takes an unexpected turn. Out of respect for Mr. Carlisle, I was going to post his one New Yorker cartoon today. Upon looking at the July 23, 1938 issue where it is listed on The New Yorker‘s database (what I relied on to list him as a One Clubber — it lists his one contribution as a “cartoon”) I found his drawing on page 3 below right:
Mr. Carlisle’s one contribution to The New Yorker is not a cartoon — it’s an illustration.
Unfortunately, and perhaps ironically, this means Mr. Carlisle’s A-Z entry will likely be removed (a first for the Spill), as the Spill’s A-Z does not (at this time) list the magazine’s illustrators (I’ve talked about this before on this site. The number of New Yorker illustrators and “Spot” artists is mountainous, with many of the early drawings unsigned or signed in such a way it would take forever to decipher many of the names).
— my thanks again to D.D. Degg, and to Alex Jay for educating me about D.T. Carlisle.