Fantaisie d’Automne/Les Champignons. Illustration by George Barbier from LA VIE PARISIENNE, 1916.
Jerry Warshaw, The I Can’t Draw Book, 1971
Early modern girls as portrayed by Katsuzi Matsumoto. Japanese Girl's Magazine "Shoujo Gaho" prize-winning postcards.
'To the country where the cherry blossoms bloom and my mother lives'.
松本かつぢ 初期のモダンガール 少女画報の懸賞絵葉書。
『櫻咲く母います國へ』
George Ludway, ADAM Magazine
‘Patsy Pinup’
‘Jumbo Comics’ (Dec, 1946)
Eugene Hartung (1897-1973)
Mainzer Cats
Panels of comic strip TEENA, by Hilda Terry (1914-2006). Terry was the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society.
So well-drawn: so lean and economical, elegant. The actions and emotions of the loose-limbed teens populating the comic are always clear and bright, their poses free from the stiff clichés usually seen in teen comics. These examples are all from the 1950s.
This punchline for this gag is so good. Peak comics. Simply peak comics.
Model sheets of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, and some art from The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969), which was made by Chuck Jones and pretty much despised by Kelly.