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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage PostcardsNovelty PostcardsThe Comic Postcards of Ray WaltersOh boy! I%u2019m in %u201cParis%u201d now.Curt Teich & Company published fifty times as many different scenic postcards than they did comic postcards. Yet the two categories often sold in equal numbers%u2014meaning that a typical comic sold many more copies than a typical scenic.Much of the humor involved traveling and vacationing, so there were comic postcards depicting motoring, trailers, outhouses, beaches, fishing, and nudist camps. Camping tents often had the silhouettes of nude females cast on their sides.About half of Curt Teich%u2019s comic postcards were drawn by an artist named Ray Walters. Ray was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a newspaper editorial cartoonist. In 1932, when he was about 50 years old, he began designing postcards, which he continued doing through 1946. Walters postcards often depicted males who were grinning, rednosed, buck-toothed, sometimes loutish figures, while his females were typically young, blonde, and voluptuous. But they could also be middle-aged, in which case they were usually less-attractive and overweight. Today, many of his comic postcards (as well as those by Curt Teich%u2019s other artists) would be considered vulgar, sexist, or misogynist. Walters produced twelve different comic postcards for A Century of Progress. They were first printed on June 23, 1933, each with an initial print run of 25,000 copies. His work has been preserved in a 2003 book by Courtney Mack titled Walters%u2019 World. Ray died in 1967 at the age of 86.