Robert L. Dickiey (1861-1944) is not well-known today, but in his time he was a popular periodical cartoonist and magazine illustrator. He loved drawing animals, especially horses and dogs. In 1894 he got a job with Horse Review, the top journal on horse sport, (his cover for the christmas 1903 issue is considered a classic: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/horse-review-robert-dickey-christmas-3877056711) and spent the next quarter century drawing cartoons of horses. Dickey illustrated such books as Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and albert Payson Terhume's Lad: A Dog. He also created seven covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
Between 1914 and 1940 he created dog cartoons for Life magazine, featuring buddie (a Boston Terrier) and his pals Angus, Buckie, Tatters, and Jock. His comic strip Just Dog -- also known as Just Dog Adventures, Bucky and His Pals, Buddie and His Friends, Dickie's [Dickey's] Dogs. Mr. and Mrs. Beans, and Buster Beans (the name was variable) -- was a warm look at our canine friends. Admittedly, it is not very funny, but the artwork is excellent and Dickie's subjects become all too human while remaining very true to their dog selves.
Enjoy these dogs.
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Excellent. This blog's readers might be more likely than most to know the LIFE magazine he contributed to, for the most part, was the humor magazine that TIME's publisher Henry Luce bought the title from, to begin the photojournalism magazine...
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