1000 Jokes
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1000 Jokes was a humor magazine launched by Dell Publishing
in 1938. With a later title change to 1000 Jokes Magazine, it was published quarterly over three decades. During the 1950s, it was edited by Bill Yates
with associate editor John Norment
.
The format featured brief humorous essays, short satires, cartoons and light verse. Pantomime cartoons were grouped into a section titled "Too Funny for Words". "Louder and Funnier" featured one-liners, such as, "Then there is the rich Texan who has a different dentist for every tooth."
and others. This eventually made a transition to photo covers. Cartoonists included Bob Barnes, Irwin Caplan
, Chon Day, Leo Garel, Jerry Marcus
, Don Orehek
, Virgil Partch, Bob Schroeter, Eli Stein, George Wolfe and Pete Wyma. The magazine paid $15 for a cartoon and an equal amount for an 18-line verse. Many of the cartoons were later recycled into paperback cartoon collections. Cartoonist Lee Lorenz
described cartoonists making rounds and making a sale to 1000 Jokes:
A sister Dell publication was For Laughing Out Loud, and Dell revived the Ballyhoo title in the early 1950s. Both employed the 1000 Jokes format of mixing cartoons with short humorous essays.
Today, Margate Entertainment
owns Colliers Media Company, which publishes 1000 Jokes and other magazines.
Dell Publishing
Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte, Jr.During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included 1000 Jokes, launched in...
in 1938. With a later title change to 1000 Jokes Magazine, it was published quarterly over three decades. During the 1950s, it was edited by Bill Yates
Bill Yates
Floyd Buford Yates , better known as Bill Yates, was a cartoonist who drew gag cartoons and comic strips before assuming the position of comic strip editor for King Features Syndicate in 1978.Yates learned to cartoon by taking the W. L...
with associate editor John Norment
John Norment
John Murray Norment was an American illustrator, gag cartoonist, magazine editor and photographer.Born in Lebanon, Tennessee, Norment attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1933-34, and he exhibited in the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists annual shows in...
.
The format featured brief humorous essays, short satires, cartoons and light verse. Pantomime cartoons were grouped into a section titled "Too Funny for Words". "Louder and Funnier" featured one-liners, such as, "Then there is the rich Texan who has a different dentist for every tooth."
Cartoonists
Covers during the 1940s and 1950s featured caricatures of comedians by Rowland B. WilsonRowland B. Wilson
Rowland Bragg Wilson is an American animation production artist and gag cartoonist who did watercolor illustrations for leading magazines, notably Playboy and TV Guide. His work was usually signed Rowland B...
and others. This eventually made a transition to photo covers. Cartoonists included Bob Barnes, Irwin Caplan
Irwin Caplan
Irwin Caplan , nicknamed Cap, was an American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist, best known as the creator of The Saturday Evening Post cartoon series, Famous Last Words, which led to newspaper syndication of the feature in 1956.Caplan grew up in Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood...
, Chon Day, Leo Garel, Jerry Marcus
Jerry Marcus
Jerry Marcus was a prolific freelance gag cartoonist who also created the syndicated newspaper comic strip, Trudy....
, Don Orehek
Don Orehek
Don Orehek is an American freelance cartoonist who has contributed gag cartoons to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and books...
, Virgil Partch, Bob Schroeter, Eli Stein, George Wolfe and Pete Wyma. The magazine paid $15 for a cartoon and an equal amount for an 18-line verse. Many of the cartoons were later recycled into paperback cartoon collections. Cartoonist Lee Lorenz
Lee Lorenz
Lee Lorenz is an American cartoonist, most notable for his work in The New Yorker.Lorenz is an alumnus of Carnegie Tech and Pratt Institute. His first published cartoon appeared in Colliers in 1956, and two years later he became a contract contributor to The New Yorker, which has published more...
described cartoonists making rounds and making a sale to 1000 Jokes:
- After The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
stop, they moved on: Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Ladies' Home Journal, American Legion, True, Cavalier, PlayboyPlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
. "At the end of the day," Mr. Lorenz said, "you'd go to 1000 Jokes, published by Dell, and the editor would sop up whatever was left."
A sister Dell publication was For Laughing Out Loud, and Dell revived the Ballyhoo title in the early 1950s. Both employed the 1000 Jokes format of mixing cartoons with short humorous essays.
Today, Margate Entertainment
Margate Entertainment
Margate Entertainment LLC is a worldwide communications company based in Henderson, Nevada. Operated by Tom Ficara and Charry Kennedy, it supplies sports and entertainment programming to new electronic media distributors from its 10,000 title program library...
owns Colliers Media Company, which publishes 1000 Jokes and other magazines.