Ohio-born cartoonist Gardner Rea was among the initial contributors to The New Yorker, but in his long career, his work was published by various magazines. Among them was Collier’s, whose cartoon editor, Gurney Williams, edited this volume of Rea’s cartoons first published in that magazine. The contents cover a wide variety of subjects, from the ephemeral to the more sempiternal, but the Second World War looms large, as the collection was published in 1944. Certainly worth a look for fans of mid-century cartoon art and humor.