Friday, March 30, 2007
Through Darkest Adolescence: With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in Checkbook
"a 1962 book by Richard Armour... Susan Perl is credited with the illustrations"
From Cartoon Retro where you can see many more illustrations.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Harry Potter: Covers Abundant
and odd.
Saipanwriter thinks of tennis. Elizabeth says the cover kind of reminds her of THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY. And Roger Sutton is reminded of both tennis and THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY.
Saipanwriter thinks of tennis. Elizabeth says the cover kind of reminds her of THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY. And Roger Sutton is reminded of both tennis and THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY.
Blue Rose Girls: Calling All Artists!
(The snowflake above is by Dan Yaccarino, 2005)
Grace and Robert explain the Robert's Snow Fundraiser via Quicktime • on NBC's Today Show (5 MB)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Locomotive, The Turnip and The Birds' Broadcast
"A rare 1938 children's book, originally written in Polish but translated over the years into several languages..."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bredlo/sets/72157600013984249/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bredlo/sets/72157600013984249/show/
Many thanks to Drawn
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Mad Magazine-inspired comic strip by William Barry
"The Haunted Mansion Supplement appears to have been a supplemental publication to the internal newsletter Backstage Disneyland, and was produced to commemorate the 1969 opening of the Haunted Mansion. It is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of WED Enterprises, the company’s theme park design division that would ultimately evolve into Walt Disney Imagineering."
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
Aurelius Battaglia
From Cartoon Retro --where you can see many more examples.
And here too: msn.com/inventaire/aureliusbattagliachien
Monday, March 12, 2007
Two Fish Out Of Water
via The Children's Picturebook Price Guide:
"As a child, I loved the story A Fish Out Of Water. It was, and remains, one of my favorite Beginner Books.
Written by Helen Palmer, the wife of Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, A Fish Out Of Water has a ‘preposterous-ness’ one associates with a Dr. Seuss story. Then it’s not surprising to discover the story is virtually identical to Seuss’s Gustav The Goldfish, which was published a decade earlier in the June 1950 Redbook Magazine!"
Written by Helen Palmer, the wife of Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, A Fish Out Of Water has a ‘preposterous-ness’ one associates with a Dr. Seuss story. Then it’s not surprising to discover the story is virtually identical to Seuss’s Gustav The Goldfish, which was published a decade earlier in the June 1950 Redbook Magazine!"
Go to 1stedition.net to see more side by side comparisons.
Thank you, Linda & Stan Zielinski!
Friday, March 09, 2007
Osvaldo Cavandoli (January 1, 1920 – March 3, 2007)
Cartoon Brew has a post up about Osvaldo Cavandoli, animator of La Linea, “possibly the best known character Italian animation ever produced.”
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
Scarry PC Redux, Part II
I knew about this updated version of a Richard Scarry book: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokogiak/sets/1425737/
But I just found this update that Hillary Lang posted back in May of 2005-- a 1976 page from Cars and Trucks, paired with the original from 1951: http://weewonderfuls.typepad.com/wee_wonderfuls/2005/05/look_what_i_fou.html
Anyone remember when I posted about Cars and Trucks, an old Golden Book with illustrations by Richard Scarry? And there was this page that stuck out like a sore 70s thumb in the middle of an all 50s book.
It's really hard to look at this Before and After and not think of Mad magazine.
But I just found this update that Hillary Lang posted back in May of 2005-- a 1976 page from Cars and Trucks, paired with the original from 1951: http://weewonderfuls.typepad.com/wee_wonderfuls/2005/05/look_what_i_fou.html
Anyone remember when I posted about Cars and Trucks, an old Golden Book with illustrations by Richard Scarry? And there was this page that stuck out like a sore 70s thumb in the middle of an all 50s book.
It's really hard to look at this Before and After and not think of Mad magazine.
A Tiny Doll with Really Big Hair
http://www.dollsntoys.com/liddle.htm
http://www.juliascollectibles.com/ju23000.htm
If you are of a certain age you might remember Mattel's Liddle Kiddle dolls. They are very small-- some were sold inside a plastic "perfume" bottles. (So storage is not an issue.)
http://www.juliascollectibles.com/ju23000.htm
If you are of a certain age you might remember Mattel's Liddle Kiddle dolls. They are very small-- some were sold inside a plastic "perfume" bottles. (So storage is not an issue.)
An interview with Adam Rex
http://kellyrfineman.livejournal.com/180033.html
Thank you, Ms. Fineman
(Ms. Fineman’s picture is by Kevin Slattery )
Thank you, Ms. Fineman
(Ms. Fineman’s picture is by Kevin Slattery )
John and Clare Romano Ross & Sunny B. Cook
Woodcut illustrations by John and Clare Romano Ross can be found at The Firehouse Stomp. Thank you, Nick Sung! What a fantastic line-up of Influences.
And thank you for posting those illustrations by the mysterious Sunny B. Cook.
The Hays Code
Click on the photo to read the text
Jerry at Cartoon Brew has posted photos of a 1939 article from Look magazine illustrating how the Hays Code operated in censoring animated cartoons.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Forget Johnny
http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767922456
In this clear, inspirational guide, she provides step-by-step instructions for training the dog in your life to read flash cards with one-word commands and stick-figure drawings. With more than fifty instructional photographs, Teach Your Dog to Read is an amazing tool for making your dog smarter and enhancing your capacity to communicate with each other.
Then teach him to ski:
Danke schön, fusenumber8 , and Maira Kalman
In this clear, inspirational guide, she provides step-by-step instructions for training the dog in your life to read flash cards with one-word commands and stick-figure drawings. With more than fifty instructional photographs, Teach Your Dog to Read is an amazing tool for making your dog smarter and enhancing your capacity to communicate with each other.
Then teach him to ski:
The Wurst is an online gallery based out of Portland, Oregon run by Jason Sturgill and his wife Sarah.
The poster is by Bjørn Lie.
Danke schön, fusenumber8 , and Maira Kalman
Paddington Bear
Choreography by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Thank you, http://martinklasch.blogspot.com/
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