Chun has edited several books that focused on cartoonists who plied their trade with Humorama, including The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward, The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, and The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo.Īlex Chun’s latest volume is The Pin-Up Art of Humorama, which is a sort of “best of” collection of the pin-up cartoons found in Humorama’s various magazines. According to journalist and pin-up cartoon connoisseur, Alex Chun, Abe Goodman was the largest buyer of cartoons in the world during the 1950s. Humorama was a division of the publishing empire of Martin Goodman and was headed by his brother, Abe Goodman. Humorama magazines also featured jokes of various sorts. Titles such as Breezy, Cartoon Parade, Gaze, Jest, Joker, Romp, and Zip also published black and white photographs of models (Bettie Page, among them) and actresses (such as Tina Louise and Julie Newmar). Humorama was a New York City based line of digest-sized magazines mainly remembered for the single panel pin-up and girlie cartoons they contained.
