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Please join me and the hosts of DuckTalks for a podcast discussion on the @fantagraphics collections of Carl Barks and Don Rosa comics, plus DuckTales then and now, The Three Caballeros and SO much more! Listen at the following link:
DuckTalks Episode #058 - Beyond DuckTales With Dan Cunningham!
Santa Monica's Pacific Ocean Park Entrance, circa 1956, painted by L.A. artist Stan Cline. View a gallery of his nostalgic landmark art here:
https://www.stancline.com
Original illustrations by Dick Kelsey with text paste-up for the classic "Walt Disney's Little Man of Disneyland" Little Golden Book
Medium: gouache on illustration board (c. 1955)
Darkwing Duck: The Definitively Dangerous Edition is at your local comic book shop TODAY!
The ultimate DW comic book collection in one volume. Issues 1-16 (plus the hard to find annual) of the original Boom Studios series is back in print in a remastered edition. New dialogue, new art, an all-new epilogue plus the same old anvils and chainsaws you’ve grown to love. The perfect segue to the new adventures coming later this year.
The book will be available at Amazon, Target and other major retailers next week but I implore you to find your nearest comic shop at Comic Shop Locator to pick up your copy. These folks are the heart and soul of what’s keeping our industry alive! If you live in the OC visit my friends at Beach Ball Comics or Nuclear Comics & Skate.
Stay dangerous my friends.
The above art is the wrap-around cover process from my pencils and inks to Andrew Dalhouse’s amazing colors
Art by Marco Rota
PLAYLIST: SONGS OF COMIC STRIPS
A new Post is up, featuring songs from projects spun off of newspaper comic strips. There's a bit of comic strip history, with links to playlist suggestions and FOUR free MP3s plus links to more at the end of the post! From Barney Google to The Boondocks, check it out here and enjoy:
I Can Break Away: Songs of Comic Strips
Just announced: "Wak! Disney's richest epic hero returns! In "The Wrath of Gigabeagle," the McDuck Money Bin meets a monster-sized Beagle Boy mech!" Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #1 (#405) will be released in comic shops on 4/22/15 from IDW Publishing. Pictured above are the standard cover featuring artwork by Giorgio Cavazzano, and a special subscription variant cover by Derek Charm.
Artwork © Disney Enterprises, Inc.
1988 EPCOT Center World of Motion attraction stamp issued in the Caribbean dual-island state of Antigua and Barbuda. Visit the blog to see more scans of the EPCOT Center series of stamps here:
Postage Stamps of EPCOT Center
Artwork © Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Scrooge McDuck "Happy New Year" illustration by Carl Barks—this line art reproduction appeared in The Carl Barks Library Set III by Another Rainbow Publishing (1984)
This artwork originally appeared on the back cover of Uncle Scrooge #16, published by Dell Comics (December, 1957)
Artwork © Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Richfield Dealer Mid-Century Christmas Carol Giveaway Booklet (Part III)
In the early-to-mid 20th century, Richfield Service Stations were located throughout the Western United States (Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.)
For many holiday seasons, Richfield Stations distributed complimentary booklets to customers featuring simple sheet music and lyrics to traditional Christmas Carols. Each 10”x 7” booklet ran 16 pages (including the covers) which left open space for each individual location to stamp their name, address and phone number.
The pages above contain the final of three posts showing the full contents of a Richfield Christmas Carol booklet produced around the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The spot illustrations and decorative banners accompanying each song are the real gems here. As more pages are posted in the coming days, notice that the art styles are harmonious, but vary between slight to significant from page to page. Enjoy!
Each December I write, draw and assemble an original Holiday card to family and friends, starring a sleepy, caricatured version of myself, and Bill, my upbeat canine companion. Sometimes you get a full comic strip story, one year I created puzzles and games in a "Fun Book" format, and sometimes I'll write an illustrated story in rhyme.
This year's holiday card is a trek down a snowy hill via sled! The interior is in the format of a Sunday newspaper comic strip, this time in a vertical format. The illustrated artwork was hand-drawn in pencil, then inked with a traditional pen and nib, with only the coloring and type executed digitally. There was a lot of fun and thinking in drawing the trees and snow, making sure they were identifiable, even before the color was added. I've been observing where to place shadows on figures and objects properly and where leave them off—it's something of a balancing act, but good practice for future projects. You can view the cover and the entire comic strip on my Flickr page here: 2014 Holiday Card
Artwork © 2014 by Dan Cunningham
Richfield Dealer Mid-Century Christmas Carol Giveaway Booklet (Part II)
In the early-to-mid 20th century, Richfield Service Stations were located throughout the Western United States (Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.)
For many holiday seasons, Richfield Stations distributed complimentary booklets to customers featuring simple sheet music and lyrics to traditional Christmas Carols. Each 10”x 7” booklet ran 16 pages (including the covers) which left open space for each individual location to stamp their name, address and phone number.
The pages above contain the second of three posts which will showcase the full contents of a Richfield Christmas Carol booklet produced around the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The spot illustrations and decorative banners accompanying each song are the real gems here. As more pages are posted in the coming days, notice that the art styles are harmonious, but vary between slight to significant from page to page. Enjoy!
The original run of Walt Kelly's influential comic strip Pogo strip ended in 1975—having been maintained two years after Kelly's death by his widow Selby and son Stephen.
In 1989, a rare revival took place: Walt Kelly's Pogo returned to daily newspaper syndication with new daily and Sunday strips via the Walt Kelly Estate through the OGPI (Okefenokee Glee & Perloo, Inc.) and a distribution deal with the L.A. Time Syndicate. The strip revival was written by Larry Doyle and drawn by artist Neal Sternecky.
The restrictions of meddlesome Editors and an ever-shrinking comics page proved a challenge to Kelly's visual world and sense of wordplay, but the pair brought forth an impressive attempt to restore social commentary through the critters of the swampland.
Alas, the revival only lasted until 1993: both Doyle and Sternecky left the strip after two years, once again leaving the strip in the hands of Kelly's family.
During the initial kick-off of the Pogo revival, the paper ornament in the images shared above was mailed out to members of the OGPI fan club, drawn by Neal Sternecky in a style faithful to Kelly's own. It has been formatted so you, too, can print and cut out the ornament for holiday decorating.
Pogo Possum and related characters ©2014 by OGPI
View samples of 1991 Pogo strips by Doyle and Sternecky here: Obscurity of the Day—Pogo Revival
Holiday greeting card sent to animation galleries and dealers in 1999 to promote the home video premiere film Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. A traditionally animated direct-to-video movie composed of three segments featuring the core Walt Disney animated characters, with wrap-around narrations by Kelsey Grammar.
The film was well-received, and has lived on via cable television broadcasts, and subsequent releases on DVD and Blu-ray. It success gave the green light to Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, a 2004 follow-up using a similar format, rendered in 3-D CGI animation.
Artwork © Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Richfield Dealer Mid-Century Christmas Carol Giveaway Booklet (Part I)
In the early-to-mid 20th century, Richfield Service Stations were located throughout the Western United States (Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.)
For many holiday seasons, Richfield Stations distributed complimentary booklets to customers featuring simple sheet music and lyrics to traditional Christmas Carols. Each 10”x 7” booklet ran 16 pages (including the covers) which left open space for each individual location to stamp their name, address and phone number.
The pages above are the first of three posts which to showcase the full contents of a Richfield Christmas Carol booklet produced around the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The spot illustrations and decorative banners accompanying each song are the real gems here. As more pages are posted in the coming days, notice that the art styles are harmonious, but vary between slight to significant from page to page. Enjoy!
