[Original Art]: Bill Poster's Lament

1928. Softcover. Near Fine. Original pen and ink drawing with spot colors. Composed of seven loose sheets of various sized glued together at the edges to create long single illustration measuring approximately 8½" x 67". About near fine with small tear at one corner, wrinkles from being rolled and a few scattered contemporary ink marks to the perimeter. The 11-panel strip follows a grumpy bill poster given the job of covering an enormous 24-sheet billboard advertising "Jazz Corsets," showing an old-fashion image of a woman. He complains about not having a chance with these new "wild ones," how he should have gotten a job in the movies, and laments not meeting that "little queen" he saw the previous day. That is, until he begins putting up the new billboard for a films featuring a flapper, changing his mood. In the final panel he seems to address reader directly telling "Lady Pat," maybe the recipient of this comic strip, to "look pleasant, smile again, and have one on me in Tijuana." A charming piece of original art, composed in the style of Windsor McCay.