Cavalier (magazine)
Encyclopedia
Cavalier is an American
magazine that was launched by Fawcett Publications
in 1952 and has continued for decades, eventually evolving into a Playboy
-style men's magazine. It has no connection with the Frank Munsey
pulp, The Cavalier, published in the early years of the 20th century.
In its original format, Cavalier was planned by Fawcett to feature novelettes and novels by Fawcett's Gold Medal
authors, including Richard Prather and Mickey Spillane
.
, Robert Shea
(1966) and Alan R. LeMond (1967). Maurice DeWalt was the editor in 1973.
, Henry Kuttner
, Clyde Beatty
("Tigers on the Loose") and Stanley P. Friedman
. During the 1960s, the magazine featured such writers as Isaac Asimov
, Ray Bradbury
, Robert Coover
, Leonard Feather
, Richard Gehman
, Nat Hentoff
, John Clellon Holmes
, William Bradford Huie
, Garson Kanin
, Paul Krassner
, John D. MacDonald
, Alberto Moravia
, Robert Shelton
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Theodore Sturgeon
, William Tenn
, Bruce Jay Friedman
and Colin Wilson
. Some stories were reprints, such as Roald Dahl
's "Man from the South" in the June 1960 issue.
Film critic Manny Farber
had a monthly column in the 1960s. Stephen King
was a contributor during the 1970s, and his stories were also featured in Cavalier Yearbook.
were published in Cavalier along with comics by Art Spiegelman
and Jay Lynch
. Illustrators included the Boston-based painter Norman Baer.
Illustrator/painter Robert McGinnis
whose long illustration career had just started to take off around the beginning of the 1960s, painted some female figures (some of them nudes) for some of the Cavalier Magazine issues. (Verified issue examples: June 1965, October 1965, December 1965.)
. In the 1980s, Dugent Publishing relocated their offices to Coral Gables, Florida
.
Cavalier is currently published by Cavalier Publishing, LLC in Tampa, Florida
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
magazine that was launched by Fawcett Publications
Fawcett Publications
Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett . At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the Army, and the Spanish-American War took him to the Philippines. Back in Minnesota, he became a...
in 1952 and has continued for decades, eventually evolving into a Playboy
Playboy
Playboy 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...
-style men's magazine. It has no connection with the Frank Munsey
Frank Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine but spent most of his life in New York City...
pulp, The Cavalier, published in the early years of the 20th century.
In its original format, Cavalier was planned by Fawcett to feature novelettes and novels by Fawcett's Gold Medal
Gold Medal Books
Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, is a U.S. book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation at the time. Fawcett was also an independent newsstand distributor, and in 1949 the company negotiated a contract with New American Library to...
authors, including Richard Prather and Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane , better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally...
.
Editors
During the 1950s, the magazine was edited by James B. O'Connell (1952-1958) and Bob Curran (1959). Editors in the 1960s included Frederic A. Birmingham (1962), Frank M. RobinsonFrank M. Robinson
Frank M. Robinson is an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer.-Biography:Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis...
, Robert Shea
Robert Shea
Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In...
(1966) and Alan R. LeMond (1967). Maurice DeWalt was the editor in 1973.
Contributors
Authors in the 1950s included Jimmy BreslinJimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin is an American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News' Sunday edition. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City...
, Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.-Early life:Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915...
, Clyde Beatty
Clyde Beatty
Clyde Beatty joined the circus as a cage cleaner as a teen and became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He also became a circus impresario who owned his own show that later merged with the Cole Bros. Circus to form the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros...
("Tigers on the Loose") and Stanley P. Friedman
Stanley P. Friedman
Stanley Philip Friedman was a New York City-based author and award-winning photographer.-War service:...
. During the 1960s, the magazine featured such writers as Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
, Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
, Robert Coover
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...
, Leonard Feather
Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.-Biography:...
, Richard Gehman
Richard Gehman
Richard Boyd Gehman born 20 May 1921 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania died 12 May 1972 was a prolific American author of 3,000 magazine articles , five novels and fifteen nonfiction books...
, Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff
Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal....
, John Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Holmes , born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was an author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat"...
, William Bradford Huie
William Bradford Huie
William Bradford "Bill" Huie was an American journalist, editor, publisher, television interviewer, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist.-Biography:...
, Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films.-Film and stage career:...
, Paul Krassner
Paul Krassner
Paul Krassner is an author, journalist, stand-up comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958...
, John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonald was an American crime and suspense novelist and short story writer.MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida...
, Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....
, Robert Shelton
Robert Shelton
Robert Shelton was a music and film critic.Shelton's most enduring claim to fame was that he helped launch the career of a then unknown 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan...
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...
, Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction author.His most famous novel is More Than Human .-Biography:...
, William Tenn
William Tenn
William Tenn was the pseudonym of Philip Klass , a British-born American science fiction author, notable for many stories with satirical elements.-Early life:...
, Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie Friedman, Bruce Jay Friedman graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He then attended the University of Missouri as a journalism major, then served as a First Lieutenant in...
and Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
Colin Henry Wilson is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.- Early biography:Born and...
. Some stories were reprints, such as Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
's "Man from the South" in the June 1960 issue.
Film critic Manny Farber
Manny Farber
Emanuel "Manny" Farber was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic" , Farber developed a distinctive prose style and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics; Susan Sontag considered him to be "the...
had a monthly column in the 1960s. Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
was a contributor during the 1970s, and his stories were also featured in Cavalier Yearbook.
Cartoonists and illustrators
Deadbone and other graphic stories by Vaughn BodeVaughn Bodé
Vaughn Bodē was an artist involved in underground comics, graphic design and graffiti. He is perhaps best known for his comic strip character Cheech Wizard and artwork depicting voluptuous women. His works are noted for their psychedelic look and feel...
were published in Cavalier along with comics by Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
and Jay Lynch
Jay Lynch
Jay Lynch is an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. His work is sometimes signed Jayzey Lynch. He has contributed to Mad, and in 2008, he expanded into the children's book field.-Early life and career:Born in Orange,...
. Illustrators included the Boston-based painter Norman Baer.
Illustrator/painter Robert McGinnis
Robert McGinnis
Robert McGinnis is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of over 1200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffanys , Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films.-Biography:Born Robert Edward McGinnis in...
whose long illustration career had just started to take off around the beginning of the 1960s, painted some female figures (some of them nudes) for some of the Cavalier Magazine issues. (Verified issue examples: June 1965, October 1965, December 1965.)
Publishers
The magazine had several logo changes, and during the 1960s, it was taken over by the DuGent Publishing Corporation, which was located at 236 East 46th Street in New YorkNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. In the 1980s, Dugent Publishing relocated their offices to Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Downtown Miami, in the United States. The city is home to the University of Miami....
.
Cavalier is currently published by Cavalier Publishing, LLC in Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
.