Judge, 1921-01-22 · page 26 of 32
Judge — January 22, 1921 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page announces winners of Judge magazine's "Number Two Wiggle-Wobbles" drawing contest. "Wiggle-Wobbles" appears to be a cartooning exercise where artists draw figures using curved, wobbly lines as compositional guides—visible in the constrained, exaggerated forms throughout. The page displays prize-winners and honorable mentions with their submitted cartoon drawings. Judge's editors note the contest exceeded expectations for entries, with artists demonstrating "strikingly original ideas" within the formal constraints. The emphasis on "heavy line" technique and the editor's claim that this exercise provides "elementary schooling" suggests Judge used such contests to promote drawing skills among readers and aspiring cartoonists. The drawings themselves are broadly humorous character sketches—animals, people in various poses—typical of early 20th-century American comic illustration. This represents Judge's function as both satirical magazine and instructional resource for visual humor.
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und page 28 are shown a N this page i NUMBER TWO O considerable. number of examples of | Jupcr’s Wiggle-Wobbles No. i cluding the five that win prizes. The contest over this second Wiggle- Wobble promises to be lively than that which brought thou: of drawings in the contest over design No. 1 The Wiggle-Wobble editor thought the number contestants for the first) Wiggle-Wobble s could hardly be equaled in any sub in error. Jupce’s r of ' que mail has been literally th based , | Third Prize $5 t contention, but he w led with drawings on the second eccentric line used as a Fourth Prize $5 Hon. Men. Hon. Men. Honorable Mention Oo Aupara Stat 866 Lakeshore Ave, Oakland, Calif. Honorable Mention 20th St, W. G. Hatseatany, innati, 0. basis for pictures, and they are still coming j strong Readers must bear this design for the second Wiggle-Wobble in mind in scanning the com- JUDGE J wus 1 WIGGLE-WOBBLE AWARDS |" First Prize $25 petitive pictures reproduced this week. ‘The will sce that it has been employed ingenious! and with strikingly original ideas in most of the illustrations, and that not only the — prize winning designs more interesting thar those of the first contest. but those that receive skilful are honorable mention are also very ind amusing. All the pictures are built up with the heavy line as the only suggestion for the cleverness of the contestants to work upon Jupce’s idea that these Wiggle-Wobbles aside from the opportunity they offer to win prizes, are at least an elementary schooling it Fifth Prize $5 He HL. Missin, Kin Weel prable Mention Honorable Mention { ) Rellerwe Aee., Treatom, Nod. c Hon. Men. Hon. Men. Hon. Men. Hon. Men. Hon. Men. ] ' iv i | 1 Ae Rod Moa, (Cage, Werner, d 4 n te d Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention : ; 1 Wott hay ~ italy > fo) 1 R \ r 19 COLEMAN, 56 Sockson St, Quebee City, Canola E I" nit desert Honorable Mention paper liscer St. Lowis, Mo. Miss Aoene Gast, 64194 Virginia Are, ’ drawing. seems to have been fully verified by the results thus far secured. Can any one who | scans the results doubt this? The competition R. Wartraxen, 9605 Yale Ave, Cteecland, Ohio (Continued on page 28) | s 26 comicbooks.com