A few years ago Mels drawingboard was for sale. Anyone who know were it ended up? Is it still for sale? I'm tempted to buy and have it shipped here. :)
Anyone with rare Graff art or runs of his (or Charles Raabs) Adventures of Patsy: please send me a mail. Got stuff to trade and I'm always interested in buying if the price is right.
Three more to go. I'm tempted to do Fred Lasswell next. He did a really good illustration of Snuffy Smith in the future. :)
And as some of you might have seen "The Floyd Gottfredson Library: The Best of Mickey Mouse - Daily strips 1930-1933" will be released next summer. However the "best of" treatment might mean we get censored or missing strips...
Let's hope not.
Heres a link to amazon.com: FGLibrary
Looks like it will be a cut editon. Wadda shame. But most of Gottfredson is available on-line. Just search for "Gottfredson free" on google and you can read those banned stories already. That's what happens when Disney tries to deny their past...
ReplyDeletePS. Mickey is black himself so why not censor all of the Mickey strips?
ReplyDeleteIsn't it strange that some people tries to deny the history of racism instead of bringing it to light to avoid it in the future by learning from mankinds previous mistakes?
Hmm. I wonder if you counted my request for the 'resident Canid imitator'. I have to say all these drawings are wonderful and I am surprised I haven't seen any of them in 25 years of fanzine collecting. Do you have a list of the remaining ones you could share? I recently found this blog and love it!
ReplyDeleteWell, Mr Anonymous, I can go with the notion that the early strips were created by people ignorant of certain things. But to call them racist like that is - I think - a bit too far. I don't know if they were, but using stereotypes doesn't make you automatically racist, especially in those days when most people didn't know better and there was a completely different culture.
ReplyDeleteTo brand them racist is crude and as much unfair as racism itself.
Jim Ivey had Mel Graff's drawing board for many years. Don't know if he still has it, but he was trying to sell it at one time. I can ask him about it if you're really serious about shipping it over there.
ReplyDelete--Allan Holtz
It might be far too expensive having it shipped across the atlantic, come to think about it..
ReplyDeleteI wish I was richer, then I wouldn't have hesitated a second.
Mumble, grumble... Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket and win a million bucks...