Volume 13 , Issue 37

E. M. Markers 1950 All-Americans

Remember when Editor Brooks Bicknell and Barker's collaborated on E.M. BArker's All-American football team, which featured Alva Citizens? Jim Barker sent us the following cartoon that appeared in the late 1940's to earlier 1950's of the Alva Review Courier.

Jim says, "I thought you might get a bang out of this. In the late '40s and early '50s, my father and Alva Review Courier editor Brooks Bicknell collaborated on the selection of "E. M. Barker's All-American" football team, featuring Alva citizens in the "All-American" roles. Brooks and E. M. made the selections, my father wrote the story and picture captions, and Brooks (who was a pretty good cartoonist: he also did the logo for my Dad's "Sports Spasms" column) drew the picture.

"Totally a tongue-in-cheek effort, it poked well-received and mildly-contrived fun at the yearly selections. You could get away with that and not make anybody mad back then. This picture is the only one that I was able to save over the years. I'm afraid the rest are lost to antiquity."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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