1960s Saxon Movie Posters
In the Spill‘s inbox yesterday, courtesy of The New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, these posters by the late great Charles Saxon, from the 1969 film, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.
Looking around the web for any other info on the film, I ran across a couple of other usages of Saxon’s art on promotional materials for the film, such as this Danish poster below, and the large poster just below it:
Also found was a reference to the Leonard Dove New Yorker cartoon (below) that appeared in the issue of June 22, 1957. Vincent Canby’s New York Times review cites the cartoon:
“IF IT’S TUESDAY, This Must Be Belgium may be the first cartoon caption ever made into a feature-length movie. If I remember correctly, that was the legend that appeared some years ago under a New Yorker Magazine cartoon showing two harried American travelers, in the middle of a relentlessly picturesque village, consulting their tour schedule. It was a nice cartoon, made timely by the great wave of tourism that swept Europe in the 1950s…”
Here’s Charles Saxon’s A-Z Spill listing:
Charles Saxon (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920, died in Stamford, Conn., Dec 6, 1988. New Yorker work: 1943 – 1991 (2 drawings published posthumously). Key collection: One Man’s Fancy ( Dodd, Mead, 1977). One of the giants of the New Yorker’s stable of artists. He could do it all: covers, spreads, single panels.
And Leonard Dove’s A-Z entry:
Leonard Dove Born 1906, Great Yarmouth, England. Died, New York City, January , 1972. New Yorker work: Dec. 17, 1927 – Jan. 18, 1964
–My thanks to BEK for setting this post in motion.