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John Held Jr. Held was the premier illustrator and cartoonist of the jazz age. When he was just fifteen, Held sold a work of his art to Life magazine. He continued creating illustrations for magazines including Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Held developed his characteristic style by 1920, which pictured stiff, stylized figures prior to their symbolic definition of the decade. His magazine covers offered humor for dismayed traditionalists, and style models for the younger flappers with shorter skirts and pencil-like necks. Held was incredibly successful, earning over one million dollars a year at one point and owning a private zoo and golf course. This drawing shows three young boys standing and holding books. The boy at right hides a pipe with billowing smoke behind his back as he points to it with a smug look. The center boy shushes the mischievous boy, and the left boy laughs as he holds one hand over his mouth. The inclusion of books suggest that the boys have just been released from school and are playing with bad behavior.