"These are custom-ordered dolls that I just finished. They are based on the two kids in the Swedish horror movie "Let the Right One In" and they're a Valentine's present."
- Little Red Fox
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The Lill Lindfors paper doll
From Året Runt 22, 1970
Other dolls: Brigitte Bardot (1965), Harry Belafonte (1966), Donovan (1966), Ingemar Stenmark (Swedish alpine star, 1975), David Bowie (1976), Ulf Lundell (Swedish author and musician, 1977), The Swedish king, Carl Gustaf and the Swedish queen Silvia (both in 1978) and a "Negermusikant" (!) (Negroe musician) back in 1961.
Kattis Klippdockor (Click the masthead thumbs for galleries.), a Swedish page for paper dolls published in weekly Swedish magazines.
What to make of some Anthon Berg candy bottles and a handful dollar store celebrity dolls? Well, if you are Lex10 of GlyphJockey the obvious answer is to make The Dollar Store Celebrity Hoochies - The 2008 GlyphJockey calendar! Click the link for the slide show!
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"...each artist /18/ was sent a blank set of russian nesting dolls, and this is what happened... //...and click on each doll to see the whole set!"
- The Wurst Gallery
Via Mira y Calla
Read about original Russian dolls
Big Jim with friends on new adventures.
Addition:
Earlier post where P-E Fronning confesses that he played with dolls.
70s commercial for Big Jim (on YouTube)
A few links to Big Jim sites.
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"Ronnie Peterson -- Swedish F1 racing driver. 1977 paper doll from the magazine 'Året Runt' for sale on Swedish auction site tradera." Says NIBLOG.
UPDATE: The original link is obsolete - try this one for Ronnie Peterson and this one - Kattis klippdockor - for an extensive collection of paper dolls from the 50s to the 80s!
More about the Swedish 70's icon Ronnie Peterson. (Link 1,2,4 and 5 works for non-swedes)
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Yes, you are right - this is a re-post. So what?! More re-posts if they are this good!
I'll be dog-gone!! I did not know that there was a "Big Jim" doll made from the Zeb Macahan character (James Arness also known from Gunsmoke) - the sturdy old trapper with a limp - in the 70s TV series How The West Was Won.
By the way, the series was called Familjen Macahan in Sweden and was extremely popular and then again we didn't have much to choose from in those years.
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I had probably just about forgotten about it, and then it all came to me. With it a strong urge to go to some meeting and purge myself - "My name is P-E Fronning and I play with dolls". Well, I don't actually, anymore. But I used to. Big Jim was his name. I really longed for the soldier type doll like Action Man, but what I got was Big Jim - a muscular, handsome man in his prime who would do a karate chop when you pushed the button on his back. Of course I didn't reflect on it then but I get a lot of gay vibes from Big Jim and his friend Josh. I don't know. Anyway, I had a lot of fun playing with my doll. I had a gorilla and a net catapult to catch it with and a
van for cruising. There was also a camping set so you could make your own grub. Ah, and then I got a second doll and I just can't remember his name. He was a sailor/pirate who had lost one arm to a shark; so now he had a metal/wooden arm that you pushed inwards to shoot it out with a fierce and lethal force (see update!). Ok, I've come clean; what do you have to confess?
Big Jim in Wikipedia
The Big Encyclopedia of Big Jim
UPDATE
Meet Torpedo Fist:
"a lot of people in the 'action figure community' are mean to me because some of my dolls are gay."
