For the next installment of Jack Sparling's Claire Voyant we jump to 1947. This time the set continues next week.
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Bon Voyant
Thursday Story Strip Day.
For the next installment of Jack Sparling's Claire Voyant we jump to 1947. This time the set continues next week.
For the next installment of Jack Sparling's Claire Voyant we jump to 1947. This time the set continues next week.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Unique Selling Point
Wednesday Advertising Day.
I scanned a couple of new ads and added two I am not sure I shared before.
I have this one down as probably encilled by jack Btts, but inked by someone else at Johnstone and Cushing.
In the mid to late fifties Bob Bugg did various cigarette ads for Reynolds brands. Most famous of course (and I show just about all of them if you follow the link) is the Sgt. Bilko series he did for Camels. But in addition to those he also did a couple of single Camels ads. I have shown two, and this is another one.
Up to the midfifties, Camels were most famous for their celebrity endorsement comic strip ads, like this one.
I have shown quite a few of these weird ads which seem to have been produced by Lou Fine. Most of them in black and white, taken from microfiche online sources, but some selfscnned and in color, like this new one.
If one ad series deserves a complete reprinting it is those delightful Pepsi Cops which ran all the way through the forties and was done by various artists (which you can see if you follow the link). They were probably designed by the first artist, Rube Goldberg, as you can see in this early sample.
And this one is completely new and unknown to me as well.
I scanned a couple of new ads and added two I am not sure I shared before.
I have this one down as probably encilled by jack Btts, but inked by someone else at Johnstone and Cushing.
In the mid to late fifties Bob Bugg did various cigarette ads for Reynolds brands. Most famous of course (and I show just about all of them if you follow the link) is the Sgt. Bilko series he did for Camels. But in addition to those he also did a couple of single Camels ads. I have shown two, and this is another one.
Up to the midfifties, Camels were most famous for their celebrity endorsement comic strip ads, like this one.
I have shown quite a few of these weird ads which seem to have been produced by Lou Fine. Most of them in black and white, taken from microfiche online sources, but some selfscnned and in color, like this new one.
If one ad series deserves a complete reprinting it is those delightful Pepsi Cops which ran all the way through the forties and was done by various artists (which you can see if you follow the link). They were probably designed by the first artist, Rube Goldberg, as you can see in this early sample.
And this one is completely new and unknown to me as well.
Gross Extrapolations
Along with the Count Screwloose I showed last week, I got a set of That's My Pop, that look more like Milt Gross' actual work, bt some online sources say it is by Bob Dunn as well. I also had a clipping around that suggests there also was a daily version.
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Take My Wife.... Please.
Monday Cartoons Day.
Like every cartoonist of the fifties, Jerry Marcus tried to get a newspaper strip of his own. He finally succeeded with Trudy, not a strip but a daily cartoon (except for a year and a half in 1968/69. Even the Sundays were a selection of cartoons (which the papers could cut up any way they wanted).
Like every cartoonist of the fifties, Jerry Marcus tried to get a newspaper strip of his own. He finally succeeded with Trudy, not a strip but a daily cartoon (except for a year and a half in 1968/69. Even the Sundays were a selection of cartoons (which the papers could cut up any way they wanted).
Sunday, December 25, 2016
As Real As It Got
Some Meskin and Roussos stories I came across in Standard's Real Life comics. The first story is the most dubious one. I see some evidence of Meskin pencellling, but the finish is probably not by him.
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