Too Much!. Richard C. Simms

      

      about the artist

      Richard C. Simms is twenty-three years old and hails from Leavenworth, Kansas, where he attended, of all things, high school. While working as a commercial artist, he attended night classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.

       Entering the service in 1953, he spent a short but delightful sixteen weeks at Fort Riley, and thereafter was sent to Korea, where he spent the rest of his Army career, wasting no time establishing himself as a talented cartoonist, with a sharp eye for the ironical.

       With the termination of his contract with the Army, Simms has returned to tthe United States to enter art school on a full-time basis.

      cartoons by

      CHARLES E. TUTTLE CO.

       Rutland, Vermont

       Tokyo, Japan

      Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku,

       Tokyo 141-0032

      All rights reserved

      First edition, November, 1955

      Seventh printing, 1960

       ISBN 978-1-4629-1821-8 (ebook)

      Printed in Japan

       by Fuji Printing Co., Tokyo

      dedication

      to Mother and to the boys in hut number four

      foreword

      Perbiante once said: “Bring me someone who can make me laugh.” Back in those days a feather archer could have done the trick, but today life has become a bag of frowns, and jesters find it increasingly difficult to get a ha-ha out of the bellies of their audience. R. Simms—the proud and happy parent of what follows—did some biological research into the origin of the belly laugh and came up with a revolutionary method of cartooning. He fills his pen with gastric juice, and has his roommate tickle him under the armpit while he sketches out his stuff. It may not help the cartoons any, but he gets a big kick out of it.

      Simms got his start by sketching military payment certificates as seen through the bottom of a gin bottle. This brief career ended, however, when someone spent the subject matter after the gin ran out While in Korea, Dick—that’s what the “R” stands for—gained recognition for his beautiful murals on the company’s latrine walls, and shortly thereafter moved up to the position of staff artist for the Korean Communications Zone’s “A” Frame News. Many of his cartoons have appeared in such notable publications as Pacific Stars & Stripes, Army Times, and the Seventh Division’s Bayonet, and his work with “A” Frame News netted him an Armed Forces Press Service citation.