Rare Rabbit

Cough, cough! Home with a cold and feeling all dizzy.
Trying to organize all the files that has been piling up on my desktop into proper folders.
While doing that I found this piece.

It looks like a try-out strip for a never produced daily version of Brer Rabbit/Uncle Remus/Song of the south.
The Uncle Remus sunday page began in 1945 and the contents of this strip is similar to the events in the first of those. See image below. So I assume that this strip was made around that time.

Also: Check out the Pictorial Review cover featuring Brer Rabbit and friends over at the DHI Facebook page by clicking HERE.

Kalle Anka 1962

Today we have a rare gem here at the blog: a Swedish Donald Duck giveaway from 1962. A special publication to attract companies to buy ad space in the Swedish DD weekly. Few fans have actually seen what's inside this one, so it's my pleasure to show it here. Enjoy!

True Life Adv. and more

James Bohn asked on the Disney History Institute Facebook page if I could post some of the "True Life Adventures" proofs found in the Frank Reilly envelope. Why not? Here are a few pics I took earlier today. Enjoy!

According to INDUCKS these were written by Dick Huemer and drawn by George Wheeler.

And while I had that drawer open I took a few more snapshots of things in the Bill Wright collection. I guess you can tell why that eBay lot was a "must have". :)

Meanest Colt in the West

Thought that horse in yesterdays post looked familiar.
And today I remembered where I had seen it before.

Vacation Parade #2 / Walt Disney's Serier 6/1954

Seems that Barks used the above Murry image as inspiration for his cover/oilpainting.

/Joakim.




 PS.
In 1977 "Donald Duck Captures the Range Rustlers" was re-drawn by Vicar.
So that's yet another version of that horse. Are there more?

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The Adventures of Buck O'Rue

 Those of you who reads Previews might already have seen this:

Buck O'Rue by Dick Huemer and Paul Murry will finally be released. :)


For more info head over to Classic Comic Press:
http://www.classiccomicspress.com/

If you just can't wait there are plenty of sunday pages in color to be found here: 

http://buckorue.blogspot.se/

Buck O'Rue to be released

 News of the day:
Classic Comics Press will publish the Buck O'Rue book!

Cover by Paul Murry and Gerben Valkema.

 More info to come...

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NF 266

Located a set of black and white proofs for the New Funnies #266 Woody Woodpecker story yesterday.
With the old Western publishing coloring still intact! (On separate sheets.) Sadly the lettering was missing, but all of the nice Paul Murry art was still there.
Here's a sample.

It's nice that stuff like this still turns up now and then, don't ya think?

Coloring the Woodpecker

Ever wondered how coloring was done back in the 60's?
A few years ago I stumbled over a set of proofs from Western Publishing, the company that published the Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz titles etc. But not only proofs for the black lines but in some cases for the colors too.
Let me run you through a few samples. In this case the proofs comes from Woody Woodpecker #122, a reprint of WW #65. Artwork is by Paul Murry. The writer and colorist are both unknown.

First we have the inked artwork.
While the original art was drawn large, the size of the proof is 100% of the printed comic book.

Then we have the proof for the Yellow color to the left. To the right we see what it looks like when the black proof for the yellow color has been scanned and placed in the yellow channel in Photoshop, together with the black lines in the black channel.

Then we have the proof for Red placed in the Magenta channel.

 

And then the Blue proof placed in the Cyan channel. 

 

Now, let's combine Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black into one CMYK file.

What puzzles me are the big chunks color that doesn't belong to the page. Does anyone know why it's there?

With all the proofs combined it's easy to clean the page from that extra "mystery" color.

Bonus page: I guess most of you can see wich Carl Barks story that inspired the writer of this Woody story? :)

 

And finally a panel for those of you who thought this post was interesting and wants to see those screentones close up. ;)

/Joakim.