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Wayback Whensday – Tizzy, Carol

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D. D. Degg Published: March 4, 2026 Updated: March 4, 2026 1 minute 3 comments

You Make Me Dizzy Miss Tizzy

Magazine cartoonist Kate Osann created the Tizzy comic panel for Collier’s in the 1950s.

Mike Lynch and Dick Buchanan present a score of Kate Osann‘s “Tizzy” 1953 – 1956.

Kate Osann was born in St. Louis and grew up in New York City where she graduated from Hunter College. After working for a while as an advertising artist, she became a gag cartoonist in the late 1940’s when her drawings appeared in Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post. She was one of the very few women to manage to forge a successful career in the male dominated gag cartooning world.

Osann’s “Tizzy” cartoons first appeared in Collier’s. The redheaded Tizzy was a typical teenage American girl who wore horn-rimmed glasses with triangular lenses. When Collier’s folded in 1957, Tizzy was syndicated by NEA, running until 1970.

Oh Carol

The Pinup art and Carol Day comic strip art of David Wright is the topic of The Many Lives of David Wright as Intelligent Collector’s Rhonda Reinhart interviews David Wright publisher and art collector Roger Clark.

…That same mastery of line would later define Carol Day, Wright’s sophisticated newspaper strip about the adventures of a stylish young model. Celebrated for its cinematic compositions and fashion-forward realism, the strip, which ran from 1956 to 1967, cemented his reputation as one of Britain’s finest illustrators, but it was built upon decades of work in advertising, commercial illustration, and wartime pinups.

Now, Heritage presents a rare opportunity: originals from across Wright’s multifaceted career, offered from the collection of Roger Clark, a longtime steward of the Wright legacy and publisher — along with fellow collectors Chris Killackey and Guy Mills — of several Carol Day books. From early sketches and lush landscapes to Sketch pinups and Carol Day dailies, the March 5 auction reveals the full arc of an artist whose understated elegance helped define an era.

IC: What was it about Carol Day that interested you specifically?

RC: The art is just fantastic. It’s unbelievable how good this artist is and that he wasn’t very well-known outside the UK. But the most intriguing part of it all, I think, is that the stories are just really good, and the characters are good. So when you combine that with the art, you have a comic strip that you just don’t see in the U.S. that has really sophisticated stories, sophisticated characters, and beautiful art. And so it just sort of brings everything together into a great comic strip.