Saturday Evening Post cover

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine first published in 1897. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines within the American middle class, with fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and features that reached two million homes every week. It published current event articles, editorials, human interest pieces, humor, single-panel gag cartoons and stories by the leading writers of the time.

Policeman on motorcycle chasing a car.

“Whoever’s driving pull over to the curb.” (Feb. 1952)

Scout troop marching in line with leader.

“And you Harcomb – when were you bitten by the adventure bug?”

Hoff cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post, Sep. 27, 1952, page 55

“Then there’s the twenty-year endowment with double-indemnity clause …” (Sep. 1952)

Hoff cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post, June 2, 1945

“Goodness! Is it that late?” (Jun. 2, 1945)

Hoff cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post, 12 July 1952

“Great speech, sir. I liked the straightforward way you dodged those issues.” (Jul. 1952)

Hoff cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post, 1946

“Will you stop referring to our anniversaries as ‘rounds’?” (Sep. 1946)