tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post8674333520491106152..comments2024-03-23T23:46:29.024-07:00Comments on The Fabuleous Fifties: Ger Apeldoornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-65066403413043480632010-08-19T03:01:29.945-07:002010-08-19T03:01:29.945-07:00Smurf, some great stuff you have there! I urge eve...Smurf, some great stuff you have there! I urge everyone who likes this sort of thing to go and have a look.Ger Apeldoornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-32237225308040602652010-08-19T02:28:11.983-07:002010-08-19T02:28:11.983-07:00Smurf,
I you google Gunnor Peterson, you will fin...Smurf,<br /><br />I you google Gunnor Peterson, you will find a site somewhere where someone posted a whole load of his illustration and advertising work. He had an impressive career and I was surprised I had'nt heard about him before.<br /><br />If you google Gunnar Peterson, you get some fitness guru.Ger Apeldoornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-87132671482499858862010-08-18T14:57:08.053-07:002010-08-18T14:57:08.053-07:00For some reason the design of Penny's face (an...For some reason the design of Penny's face (and her mother's, since they were identical) appeals to me. However I agree with the rest of your critiques of Haenigsen. Sometimes (like panels 1 and 3 of the first Penny Sunday) you'd swear he pasted up stats. But there are enough small differences to indicate he really drew each (boring) panel.<br /><br />His Life-Saver ad is interesting; do you agree that it shows strong influence from Otto Soglow?<br /><br />Nice to see a name attached to K. G. Peterson. I've seen several ads by him (or someone like him). He certainly laid the groundwork for later illustrational-style cartoonists.<br /><br />Don't know if you saw the full-page Camel Cigarettes ad comic I posted:<br /><br />http://smurfswacker.blogspot.com/search/label/advertising%20comics<br /><br />It's about halfway down the posting. Until you posted your example the Camel ad was the only full-page advertising comic I'd seen.Smurfswackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807173070389349098noreply@blogger.com