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Beautiful page from St.Nicholas Magazine by Walt Kelly creator of the comic strip Pogo and Disney Animator you can see some influence from Harrison Cary with this crowd shot.
February 1952
Children’s book, Space Cat Meets Mars (1957). Art by Paul Galdone.
A Illustration by Abner Dean for Life Magazine for some articles over George Orwell’s Novel “1984”.I may be alone in this camp but personally I think Dean’s art style suits Orwell’s novel perfectly it’s cartoonish and has a slight unsettling feel to it just fits the vibe of the book perfectly I wish he illustrated the full novel he did a couple more illustrations for this article though.
Sheet music, Let Us Waltz As We Say Goodbye, Harold Rossiter Music Co., 1925
Greek myths and stories by illustrator duo, Alice and Martin Provensen. 1950s/1960s.
Beautiful covers by kinda forgotten cartoonist Don Herold an early master of minimalism in cartooning a lot of his drawings take whatever is being depicted and boil them down to the simplest shapes to near stick figure proportions but you can tell he knows how to exaggerate the simplicity to make good gags.
Gasoline Alley ( Walt and Skeezix)
Frank King
Early modern girls as portrayed by Katsuzi Matsumoto. Japanese Girl's Magazine "Shoujo Gaho" prize-winning postcards.
'To the country where the cherry blossoms bloom and my mother lives'.
松本かつぢ 初期のモダンガール 少女画報の懸賞絵葉書。
『櫻咲く母います國へ』
1930s-1960s bottlecaps
Some Beautiful Music Sheet Covers by Einar Nerman from made between 1912-1932 I love the simplicity of these many artist think detail is needed to make art pieces good but Nerman’s designs are examples of how less is more the strong simple character designs,simple one color backgrounds that blend into the characters and beautiful staging.
Color Barnaby Strip By Jack Morley who did the art for the strip during 1946-1952 while the strips original creator Crockett Johnson(known for creating Henry and the Purple Crayon) began to focus on writing kids books I honestly really enjoy the way this looks Morley was very good at imitating Johnson’s style and the color choices are nice.
'Priestess' by Erte, (1892 - 1990)
Illustration’s by William Wallace Denslow(1856-1915) for his book Denslow’s Mother Goose.He’s probably best known as the illustrator for L.Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” .Denslow is such a fascinating artist to me for his time his drawings look pretty modern the limited colors,minimalist backgrounds, bold choices like just having a shape as a background,and his cartoonish thick outlined designs are pretty graphically ahead in kids book illustration for the early 1900s shame he didn’t illustrate the other Oz books don’t get me wrong I love John R Neil but Denslows art just has a odd charm to it I want to see in the other Oz books.
Here are some illustrations from cartoonist Abner Dean’s(1910-1982) book “It’s A Long Way To Heaven”.Abner Deans a cartoonist I’ve become a bit obsessed with for one thing he’s very mysterious there’s not a lot of info on him but mainly for his art obviously just from these alone you can tell Dean had quite the imagination his surreal cartoon drawings in this book can range from interesting to disturbing but no matter what I love them all and I’m a bit upset we can’t know more about this artist.
John Held Jr, Life, A Simple Hook-Up, November 25, 1926
Gloriously Cartoony and Fun Covers by Cartoonist Roy Wilson(1900-1965) aside from the great cartoonish character designs and posing the colors to are also nice to look at there well balanced and very pleasing to the eye nothing feels to bright.
‘Stroppy!’
‘Patsy Pinup’
‘Jumbo Comics’ (Dec, 1946)
Great Panel by Cartoonist H.M Bateman probably one of the best ever British cartoonist what I like in this one is how the man’s rage is represented in this grotesque abstract blob of anger and how the whole world seems to bend to his frustration in the background.Not to mention the great poses and facial expressions.
“Appalling! This beast steals the limelight from all of our stars!”
Karl Arnold (1883-1953) illustration for German magazine, Simplicissimus (January 1931).
Gloomy Karl Arnold cover art for Simplicissimus (January 1931).
'the triumph of neptune & thetis' bartholomaeus spranger / jacob matham
Jerry Warshaw, The I Can’t Draw Book, 1971
Karl Arnold
From Yves Chaland's Bob Fish
1928
from Lupin the 3rd Part I
A Cartoon by Peter Arno I Enjoy His Style It Has So Much Energy In the motion of the woman and the expressions on the faces of the men all read clearly tying the whole image together.
Edmond Kiraz, Jours de France