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comic-covers

(1942)

fuckyeahsufjanstevens

In the northern hemisphere, today is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year.

silveragelovechild

Nine Book Covers for HG Wells’ “The Time Machine” (first pubkished in 1895).

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wilwheaton

Cybertrucks are full of trash, so I am with the raccoons on this one.

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1979

adventurelandia

Walt Disney and Friends by Paul Wenzel, 1963

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also i just need to isolate this because it’s so purely ecstasy inducing to me everything about this makes me smile so much this is the best thing ever

doraemonmon

Diana Ross

grooveland

thejackalhasarrived

LIVING SINGLE, 3.08

blogging-at-your-funeral

lessdanthree

what drugs were they on when they made this

meanmisscharles

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

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Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

protectblkwomen

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

brunhiddensmusings

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

peathefeary

idk why this is making me so emotional???

mcloveleigh

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

melaninondeck-deactivated201907

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

impormable

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

clementimetodie

What a legend!

adventurelandia

“Wonderful Land of Disney”, Show Business Illustrated, October 31, 1961

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Salt-N-Pepa – Push It (1988)

gregorygalloway

The 18th studio album by 26-year-old Stevie Wonder was released on 28 September 1976.

The 21 songs (across a double album and 4-song single) were recorded over a 2-year period (with more than 130 musicians involved) and resulted in the best-selling album of Wonder’s career. It was an international hit (peaking at #1 in numerous countries), debuting at #1 in the US, where it remained for 13 consecutive weeks. It was the 2nd best-selling album of 1977 (only surpassed by Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours) and was nominated for 7 Grammy Awards (it received awards for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, and Best Producer).