Johnstone and Cushing was an American advertising agency that specialized in comic strip-style advertisements that used many prominent cartoonists and commercial artists of the time.
Until its dissolution in 1962, the New York City-based company provided ads for such companies as AT&T, General Foods, Nestle, and RC Cola, drawn by artists including Milton Caniff, Albert Dorne, Lou Fine, Neal Adams and Alex Kotsky.
The agency's co-founder, Tom Johnstone, had become acquainted with numerous cartoonists while employed earlier by the newspaper the New York World.
[1] Tom Johnstone and Samuel Dewy Cushing met in the year 1930.
They developed a friendship after meeting at a Broadway show called Artists and Models, where Johnstone was part of the production and Cushing was one of the investors of the show.