looking for artists with realistic style
today we are at the Bologna children’s book fair
Helpful Henry & Oliver Hardy
Helpful Henry & Oliver Hardy characters.
Helpful Henry was a comic strip in the USA comic. It was created by cartoonist J. P. Arnot (Paul Arnot – Born: 9/16/1887 – Died: 12/2/1951). Arnot was the artist of several newspaper features in the 1910s and 1920s. One of his many creations was Helpful Henry.
Actor Oliver Hardy was known to have stated on many occasions, that after seeing the character Helpful Henry in a Georgia newspaper, it inspired him for his screen character. He described Helpful Henry as being big, fussy and self important, but underneath it all, he was a very nice guy.
Thanks afnews: three volumes of Pogo
Thanks afnews: three volumes of Pogo
Dad saw an article on AfNews and the volumes of Pogo with strong discount on Amazon. And he bought them for me. Arrived today. Thanks Afnews.
Walt Kelly, byname of Walter Crawford Kelly, (born Aug. 25, 1913, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1973, Los Angeles, Calif.), American creator of the comic strip “Pogo,” which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire.
In 1935 Kelly went to Hollywood, where he did animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions. During the 1940s he was active as a commercial artist in New York City, one of his projects being a comic book in which the character Pogo appeared about 1943. His great opportunity came in 1948 with the publication of the short-lived New York Star, for which he did the daily comic strip “Pogo,” based on the character he had created earlier. After the Star ceased publication in January 1949, “Pogo” was carried by the New York Post and, before long, by many other papers.
The characters in “Pogo” are animals who live in Okefenokee Swamp, in Georgia. Pogo himself is a self-effacing possum. Other characters were Howland Owl, Albert the Alligator, and Churchy LaFemme, a turtle. The strip was exceptionally well-drawn, and the text material was witty and highly literate. Kelly frequently included animal characters that closely resembled prominent political figures of the day. Beginning with Pogo (1951) there have been many collections of Kelly’s strips, compiled both from newspapers and from original creations.
Daily Strips French golden age
Gli anni 50 e 60 sono stati un periodo d’oro per le strips giornaliere pubblicate sui quotidiani francesi. A differenza dell’Italia dove le strips quotidiane sono state rare eccezioni e – quando c’erano – con spirito coloniale erano traduzioni dagli USA o UK. Una enorme quantità di fumetti sono stati pubblicati, non tutti dei capolavori ma nel mucchio si sono distinte ottime idee. Oltre che dare lavoro a cartoonists più o meno giovani , più o meno famosi.
autori francesi PIEM
Due lezioni e il fumetto è fatto!
artisti del passato FRICK
Xtina Buona Pasqua?
Outis catalogo novità 2016
Mantova nei comics
Mantova fa da sfondo nell’avventura ” Khaïr le More” di Barbe Rouge (testo Jean-Michel Charlier, disegno Victor Hubinon), pagina 32. Una Mantova un po strana, più vicina alle architetture di Verona e con delle montagne sullo sfondo inesistenti per una città locata nel mezzo della piatta pianura padana.