Ads - Dennis the Menace
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
This Cream of Wheat ad features Hank Ketcham’s Dennis The Menace. from the 1950’s. Neat, I think.
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The Ephemerist
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Archive for June, 2007
Frank Robbins advertisments
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
These have been up for quite a while, but I only came across them over the weekend.
The inimitable Leif Peng (of Today’s Inspiration) has collected a whole series of advertisments by Frank Robbins on his Flickr page. They’re very cool : not only do you learn about the benefits of brushing your teeth, but you also get some good lessons in life as well. Useful, I think, if you still live in the 40’s…
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Two-Coats McWhinnie
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Two-Coats McWhinnie is a strip that Jonathan Edwards did together with Ian Carney in 1999 about a kid who decides to wear two coats at a time. It was supposed to be published as a Slab-O-Concrete Missive Device (a combination of postcards and comics), but unfortunately Slab went belly up before Two-Coats was ever printed. And now Jonathan reveals it in all its glory on his blog, I Heart Pencils.
I think it’s a gem, and I’m glad it’s resurfaced. A story that encompasses this amount of tragedy in only sixteen panels is very rare indeed. Thanks, Jonathan !
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Genius or childish ?
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
A quick glance at my referrer sites lead me Gaper’s block which gave a nicely double edged comment on my recent Ief Claessen post and lead me to the Bleat, where I found alittlebettergasstation.com. This is a campaign site for British Petroleum. It’s unsure whether their gas stations are “a little better” or whether they are better little gas stations. In any case, I think this is a clear example of a misplaced use of cartoony images.
And the windscreen wiper “beep” is indeed a Chris Ware sweep. Or wipe, if you wish.
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Sketches at the BD Fugue Cafe
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
In Annecy, France the annual Animation Festival just closed its doors. During the festival, the BD Fugue Cafe organised a series of sketching sessions with luminaries like Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Gilbert Shelton and Paolo Campinoti. Check out their blog for the results.
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Donald Duck a la Pratt
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
From The Arflovers Blog : Hugo Pratt’s take at Donald Duck. Oh, and they also have rss-feeds these days ! Yesh !
(via The Beat)
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Danmark celebrates Herge’s Centenary
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
The Metabunker has collected the drawings that several Danish cartoonists made to celebrate Hergé’s 100th birthday. Those who are familiar with my hangups and dada’s, know that I’m very fond of Tintin in Tibet. That is why I liked Jan Solheim’s contribution, above, best. Go to the Metabunker site for a much larger version, and for the other artists’ work.
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Five Obstructions
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Inspired by Lars “Dogma” Von Trier (about whom I would very much like to read a freudian psychological analysis, mind you), Tom Hart challenged his friend and co-oubapo-ist Matt Madden to challenge him with five obstructions in a comic strip. The results had to be printed in the Metro newspaper.
The results are quite interesting, and I was quite amazed to see how Tom managed to follow each and every one of Matt’s devious devices, and still keep true to the soul of his strip. It’s a bit sad that paper wouldn’t print the words-only strip. For that reason, I’ve included it here.
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Tomer Hanuka provided this sublime cover for the may 2007 issue of The Progressive magazine. More info on the back story for this illustration, and an early sketch, are available at his blog, tropical toxic.
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Vintage Cartoonists’ Profiles
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Now on at Yesterday’s Papers : an article from the december 1929 issue of the Strand Magazine, featuring profiles of a host of cartoonist who were working at the time, including W. K. Haselden, David Low (who’s work looks surprisingly modern), Sidney Strube and Tom Webster.
More vintage British cartoonists can be found at the most excellent British Cartoon Archive.
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