THM Pt. VI

And finally... the reason why I bought this magazine. A cover by Gustaf Tenggren!
Make sure you get Illustration magazine #21 wich features lots of his artwork.
Got a few more 1930's Tenggren covers. If there's interest I can try to find them in my archive.
Next post: Back to 2008!

THM Pt. V

Two illustrations by Charles Overman.
Just black, white and red. My three favourite colors. Simple and effective if you know how to use them right.
And incidentally exactly the three colors I'm dressed in today.

THM Pt. IV

A comic ad by Fontaine Fox, most famous for his Toonerville Trolley.

THM Pt. III

A Mr. Coffee nerves ad.
Art by???
This is the only one not by Milton Caniff or Noel Sickles I've seen.
But I bet there are plenty out there.

[ Hmm... Should have used descreening on this one. ]

THM Pt.II

More art from The Household Magazine May, 1935.
This time it's two story illustrations by Harold E. Bryant.



/Joakim, who is on a vacation ut is using "remote posting" to put things up on the blog.

THM Pt. I

Since nobody reads blogs anyway during hot summer days I'll run bits and pieces of an issue of The Household Magazine from May 1935 during the next few days. There will be illustrators you've never heard about, ads and odd stuff. I hope you will enjoy. If you check this blog regularely anyway I know you will :)

Lets begin with an ad for Kelloggs by no one else than Vernon Grant!
Oink - oink goes the pig! :)

Milli animation

Got this animation from Hedvig featuring her character Milli and I just had to share it with you. Click on image to see it move.
(This, btw, is her first try at animation. Believe it or not.)

MM in Death Valley

Watch out for this volume of Walt Disney Treasures featuring "Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"!
It's scheduled for december 10 but it will be worth waiting for since you will see this adventure in a newly restored version. Details that was muddied up by cheap newsprint and not seen since the original artwork was made will now be seen. So you will want this edition even if you have the old oversized books or the German Gottfredson portfolio.

[Edit:
David Gerstein (editor) wrote: " What you've pictured there is the very first cover for the book, [...] It was then intended as a 128-page book at slightly smaller size, thus the $9.95 cover price.
Today it's a full-sized 168-page book, so we'll be selling it at $16.99."]

More pencils

Still way to hot here to work, but I managed to do a bit of penciling today anyway.
I usually stay away from drawing guys in Emma & Sara because... most of the guys I draw tends to look more like girls than guys. And I had to make him kinda cute because Sara says hes "cute, cute, cute cuuuuuute!" a few panels before these...
Well, you be the judges if I succeded or not.

[Yes, I know she says "vänstra hand" ="left hand". Gotta change the dialouge or the hand.]


BTW:
They are showing Persepolis in Folkets Park here in Malmö at 22.00 tonight. Admission is free, so get there if you're in town. But leave a seat for me. OK?

Pen and Ink #2, Part V

Here's the final post of scans from Pen and Ink no. 2.




Notice this drawing on page 13:

Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979) went on to be a successful painter and writer of childrens books. Most famous for his creation "Little Toot" (six books written between 1939 and 1979) wich was animated at Disneys and also featured in the Disney comic books.

Check out the website devoted to him at http://www.gramatky.com/
There I found this quote in the section about his Disney years:
"Hardie began working at the Walt Disney Studio in 1929, two years after the Studio began. He went to Chouinard art school at night and to the Studio during the day. His first job was to do a Disney comic book, but he finished six months of drawings in three days when Walt asked him, 'Gee, Hardie, what would you like to do now?'"
Now, what I wonder is what comic book that would have been? In 1929?

/Joakim.

Since last post I've pencilled a half page, eaten some food, been listening to Liv Strömkvist reading ten of her comics at the Möllevångsfestival, been inking (rather unsuccessfully I have to admit) bits and pieces of the half page and done a watercolor test. The first attempt at using watercolors for many, many years. Will try to learn how to do it properly. But for now this first step will have to do.

Now I'm tired. Gotta go home and call Hedvig before it's getting late.
Then it's zzz-time.

Pencilling in a heatwave

Just began to pencil a new E&S page.

But the sun is shining here in Malmö and it's too damn hot today.
Really, all I'm thinking about is to skip work for the beach...

Pen and Ink #2, Part IV

Here are pages 10, 11 and 12.
Notice the mention of Milton Canniff [sic!] on page 12. The same Milton that ten years later drew Dickie Dare for AP? He would have been only 17 in '24, but it might be him.



The final post of Pen and Ink #2 will feature Hardie Gramatky, "Bill" Blum and market news. Stay tuned!

Pen and Ink #2, Part III

Here's the third part (of five) of the 1924 issue of pen and ink, featuring a spread by H. T. Webster. Anyone who has more issues and wants to share?

And, for no reason at all, here are four small drawings I made in 2002 - 2003. :)

[The text on hte colored one reads: Hi-diddeli-dee! Gun-Marie on adventures.
The text on the one in the left corner reads: Hi! I'm cool. –"I hardly sketch at all."]