Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 19: Look Magazine Miscellany Courtesy of ComicsDC’s Mike Rhode, here’s a quartet of ads from Look magazine. The Otto Soglow Pepsi ad, the Richard Taylor Pepsodent ad and the The Richard Decker cops & robber ad are all from the issue of February 23, 1943. The Richard Decker stocking full of smokes ad
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Gahan Wilson’s New Website; A Mimi Pond Interview; New Case For Pencils with Jeremy Nguyen
Gahan Wilson’s New Website The one-and-only Gahan Wilson has a new website (this news courtesy of Comics DC’s Mike Rhode, as is the Mimi Pond post below). Link here __________________________________________________________________________ A Mimi Pond Interview From Paste, August 22, 2017 — “The Customer Is Always Wrong‘s Mimi Pond On Turning Diner Drama into Period Piece Drama” — this interview In conjunction
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 8: James Thurber; Seth’s Sesquicentennial Piece
Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 8: James Thurber (Bug-A-Boo Ads) It was a real thrill seeing these Bug-A-Boo Thurber ads in the collection of scans offered to Ink Spill by Warren Bernard, cartoon collector extraordinaire. I wish we knew if Thurber wrote or at least tinkered with the copy. The wording was obviously designed to resemble some of
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