California Pelican December 1948

Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley. Very Good. 1948. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some edge wear, and fading to the spine. There is a small, inked previous owner's name on the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Often referred to simply as the Pelican, the magazine featured cartoons, poetry, original humor articles, and short jokes reprinted from other college humor magazines such as the Pennsylvania Punchbowl and Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern. Aside from its wealthy founder, the magazine's most well known contributor was Rube Goldberg, who drew cartoons for the magazine as a student. Goldberg recalled in later years that he “had great admiration for Earle Anthony, the editor of the Pelican, a tall, gangling young man who wore his floppy senior stovepipe at a jaunty angle and took long strides across the campus like one who had the past, present and future all wrapped in a nice secure package. When he accepted one of my drawings it gave me a greater thrill than a good mark in calculus or geology. ” Additionally, science fiction author Ron Goulart wrote for the magazine and later republished one of his Pelican articles professionally." (Liquidsearch) .