These Kids Are Clever: William Ely Hill, 27 April 1930.
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5722219

The Style Showing
William Ely Hill, 20 April 1930
Full comic at
www.pillowfort.social/posts/5712955

Vaudeville In the Sticks
William Ely Hill, 6 April 1930
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5706329

These three could be a book all by themselves.

William Ely Hill, 23 March 1930.
"The Chain Drug Store"
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5695478

"Seats in Balcony Only." William Ely Hill, 9 March 1930.
Full comic behind cut: www.pillowfort.social/posts/5691086

"The Room Clerk." William Ely Hill, 2 March 1930.
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5686234

William Ely Hill, 2/23/1930. "The Bird and Fish Store."
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5681086

Behold the Brazilian Marmoset:

The Heroines of Fiction: William Ely Hill, 16 Feb 1930.
You'll find other heroine tropes (I'm particularly fond of Louida, the empress of Schlitzen-Schlotzen) in the full comic:
www.pillowfort.social/posts/5675824

William Ely Hill, Our Drinking Girls. 9 February 1930.
Full comic, along with a discussion of Hill's attention to social trends and his regrettable tendency to indulge in what we'd call fatphobia, at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5672213.

William Ely Hill, "Club Activities." Originally published 2 February 1930.
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5668954

WE Hill, "Mid-Winter Sports" 26 Jan 1930
Meet Dominick P. Kidney. Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5662244

Today's WE Hill cartoon is "The Private Secretary," 19 January 1930.

Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5656527

From "The Gay Investors" by WE Hill, originally published 12 January 1930.
Full comic at www.pillowfort.social/posts/5645637
"Norman is one of those investors with a lot of vision, who can see big things ahead. Also he can never say no to a good sales talk."

My mission, and I choose to accept it, is telling everyone about William Ely Hill. He was a leading cartoonist of the 1920s-1930s, but he's been almost completely forgotten. I've scanned all of his newspaper comics and I plan to post them over on Pillowfort.

www.pillowfort.social/posts/5641555

When a writer says they've outlined their story, what they really mean is they've envisioned 3-4 cool scenes they now need to somehow tie together into a plot

(The Minneapolis Tribune, 22 February 1934)

An article describing the theft of a pink silk nightie, followed by a psychologist's desperate scramble to find a non-fetishy explanation.

Transcription of the article at www.pillowfort.social/posts/4446611

(Syndicated comic by WE Hill, published 12 November 1933)