Myron Waldman (1908 – 2006) was best known for his simplistic Casper animated cartoons.

Waldman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Pratt Institute and then worked first as a fill-in artist, then an inker and finally as an animator for Fleischer Studios in Hollywood, California.

Waldman is acknowledged for his first animated work, By the Light of the Siverly Moon (1931), one of the early “follow the bouncing ball” songs that projected the lyrics to songs onto the screen in order that audience participants could sing along. Later, Waldman worked on Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman and Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons, among others.

Myron in 1968. Image credit: New Dimension Films.

In 1943, Waldman created Eve, his only wordless book. Beronä described it as

…..the story of a frumpy young woman who works as a secretary and spends her evenings fantasizing about marrying a handsome movie star (opposite). She passes a travel agency and takes a vacation to Miami, where she falls in love with a plain-looking young man (page 172) who shares all her interests (page 173, top). She writes postcards to her friends and family about falling in love (page 173, bottom), but when she returns home, she discovers that the man she has fallen in love with in Miami is the mailman in her office. She feels brokenhearted, and her dream of marriage seems to dissolve until the mailman rushes to her side and announces his undying love for her (Beronä, 2008, p. 174).

Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels. New York: Abrams Books, 2008. by Beronä, David A.; Kuper, Peter.

1943 Eve

  • 1st Edition: Published by Stephen Daye, NY, 1943
  • Quarto
  • No Jacket.
  • Maroon wrappers with coloured drawing on the cover and back.
  • Unpaginated c. 80 pp., thoroughly illustrated with drawings or cartoons, pictorial paper covers.
  • There appear to be at least two 1943 versions: one with and one without a cutout opposite the copyright page.
peek-a-boo cut-out opposite the copyright page showing the face of Eve
no cutout
PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE A CLEAN IMAGE OF THE BACK COVER
Title page

Later Reprints

1997 Commemorative Edition published by Toon Art Inc. (January 1997) soft cover, Illustrated, drawings, some color.

2009 The Comics Journal #299 (August 2009) features a complete reprint and posted the entire novel online for subscribers only.