Those were the days before computer design, and pages were physically put together on heavy paper stock. Typeset copy, with a sticky layer of wax on the back, was pasted in place. In the case of artwork, boxes were hand-ruled with a technical pen and photostats of the art would be rubber cemented into place "for position only." The photostats' edges were raggedly cut about 1/8" narrower on all sides than the size of the box, leaving it to the printer to strip in the actual, screened art. The last step was writing "art butts rule" on a tracing paper overlay to make sure the printer knew that the artwork should butt up to the edges of the ruled box lines. And that's where Art Butz got his name, from those "art butts" notes on the overlays.
This cartoon, tucked away in a drawer, hasn't been published before.
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