Classic Jack Hamm Cartoon: Easter Headdress

“Easter Headdress” by Jack Hamm, circulated to newspapers April 1952. This clipping is from The Houston Post, April 05, 1952

This Jack Hamm panel was circulated to newspapers around early April 1952. No text accompanied the image of a well dressed woman who is standing in front of a row of hats in a clothing store window, but whose gaze is fixed upon the illuminated of the Criss and the Crown of Thorns at Calvary. 

Perhaps the intent was the simple message of not forgetting the Christ while dressing in your Easter Best, or it is better to be clothes in his righteousness.

The image like all of Hamms drawings made an impact on readers. There is one account in the Houston Post newspaper of a reader who asked for this image to be reprinted for Good Friday, 1954.