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 Seventy-four year-old cartoonist Chic Tongue was "rediscovered" after Barracuda managing editor Smitty Saeufer noticed some of his doodles on a cocktail napkin at the bar of old-time Hollywood mainstay Musso & Frank's. Smitty asked the bartender who drew the cartoons, and he was directed to the self-described "stewed prune" sipping a boilermaker at the end of the bar.
In the 1950s, along with many other cartooning gigs, Chic drew a series of cocktail napkin cartoons that were printed on about 25 million napkins and distributed nationwide. Because of the transient nature of cocktail napkins and "pulp" stag magazines, Chic's work went largely uncredited and an amazingly small amount of his art remains today. 
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