Archive for January 3rd, 2009

Belgopocket goes Marque Jaune

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

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One of the first posts I ever did for this blog in its current format, was about the illustrations Johan De Moor made for the Belgopocket in 2005, and how he used his father Bob De Moor’s character Balthazar in them.

It’s 2009 now, and the already infinitely labyrinthine Belgian administration has become even more intricate in the mean time, so it was time for a new edition.  The brochure structured in roughly the same way as the previous one, and the original illustrations were reused.  There is a new cover, though, lampooning that most famous of Belgian comic covers : the one to Blake and Mortimer’s adventure La Marque Jaune by Edgar P. Jacobs.

If you want the full monty on this, you can download the brochure in Dutch, French or German from the official Belgopocket website.

Everybody’s talking

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

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This ad for Gillette safety razors was published in A. Merritt’s Fantasy Magazine in 1950.   Comic-style advertisments were quite common in those days.  It would seem that every other ad used speech balloons or sequential art, as these other examples, from the same magazine, will attest (after the click).

All scans were provided by Van Reid – thanks, Van !  Oh, and I’m sure that these days ad copy would be reviewed a bit more carefully, especially when it comes to how the brand name’s spelled…

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12 more things

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

12 Things by Mike Lynch

Mike Lynch presents 12 things he doesn’t want to hear anymore in 2009.  I guess we’ll all agree…

(cartoon © Mike Lynch 2009)

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