Showing posts with label advertising comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising comics. Show all posts

Monday, October 28, 2019

Everything MacKay With You?

Monday Surprise Day.

Dick MacKay was an American cartoonist whose for appeared mainkly in the forties and sixties. It seems he worked in advertising a lot, and some of his originals wound up at Heritage in the Gill Fox collection. That would make him a likely suspect to have worked at the Johnstone and Cushing compny, like Gill Fox. His style in thse ads is a bit old fashioned, like that of another Johnstone and Cushing employee, Stan Randall. In the fifties, he changed to a more modern style.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Most Glamourous Car Of It's Period

Wednesday Advertising Day.

In the early forties illustrators started devolping a comic book style for their ads. I don't know who the artist for this ad is, but I don't think it was an actual comic book or newspaper strip man. He did however take a good look at the then current chiascuro style 'invented' by Milt Caniff and Noel Sickles on terry and the Pirates.