Author, historian and collector Eric Caren capped another fantastic
discovery with a visit to Diamond International Galleries and Gemstone
Publishing.

Caren, who contributed the groundbreaking article on the
Pioneer Age to this year’s edition of The Official Overstreet Comic Book
Price Guide, discovered what is now believed to be the biggest cartoon
illustration in an American periodical.

Featured in the Christmas/New
Years 1848-49 issue of Brother Jonathan A Holiday Pictorial (which was
originally priced at 12½ ¢), the image of the full two-page spread
Christmas-themed cartoon can be seen in the image above, held by Caren (left)
and Gemstone’s J.C. Vaughn.

Titled “Christmas,” the piece features seven
related parts, “The Invitation,” “The Sleigh-Ride,”
“The Catastrophe,” “Arrival At The Inn,” “The
Party,” and “Goodnight.”