RobotJohnny.com
is the personal blog of illustrator/cartoonist Johnny Martz (of the excellent Drawn! blog)
Excelsior 68 Flickr set
"This is a page from Excelsior 1968, in which I recreated an actual yearbook's entire student body. More information on the book at RobotJohnny.com"
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60s ad illustrated by George Albertus and Charlie Allen. Click image for full-size version!
Illustration
from Leif Peng's article "Nearly Anonymous: The Cartoonist Illustrators" about illustrator George Albertus. (Flickr link)
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Pac Tel ad
Illustrated by Charlie Allen (blog), Year unknown
Via Today's Inspiration
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"Alan Aldridge is a UK artist, born in 1943. During the 1960s and 1970s he was responsible for a great many album covers, and helped create the graphic style of that era. He designed a series of science fiction book covers for Penguin Books."/"His work was characterised by a flowing, cartoony style and soft airbrushing - very much in step with the psychedelic styles of the times." (Wikipedia)
Official site.
Connecting this post with the previous one on Heinz Edelmann here is a quote from Bob Neaverson's The Beatles Movies on the subject of Yellow Submarine: "Formally, the film is rooted in a range of sixties pop styles, and the eclecticism of its colour imagery (designed largely by German poster artist Heinz Edelmann) is derived from a vast range of popular contemporary approaches, including imagery culled from the pop art paintings, prints and designs of artists such as Peter Blake and Andy Warhol, the ‘op’ art of Bridget Riley, surrealist and expressionist art, the psychedelic graphics of British and American underground poster designers such as Martin Sharp and Rick Griffin, and the work of popular illustrators such as Alan Aldridge, who was apparently initially involved with creating some of the draft drawings for the animation."
Left. Alan Aldridge's The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics at Prof. Michael Stoll's Flickr.
Below. Book covers by Alan Aldridge from mjkghk's Flickr. Click here for more.
"Heinz Edelmann is a German illustrator and designer. He was born in 1934 in Czechoslovakia He is a well-known illustrator in Europe, but is probably most famous for his art direction and character designs for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine." (Wikipedia)
Some more Edelmann creatures here.
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Gerhard Munthe
(1849-1929)
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"Seidemennene paa Skrattskjaer" - Olav Tryggvasons saga in Heimskringla
Halfdan Egedius
(1877 – 1899) !!
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Two times Dylan.
Caricatures
by Noma Bar (left) and Pablo Lobato (right).
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Follow the link below for more
Jack Kirby monsters never reprinted at the Monster Blog.
Via Canta Piriquito Canta
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If I had a kid (or knew one) of the right age and if I, or rather the kid, was anglophone there would be absolutely no reason left not to get these print out school book stickers (pdf)! They are illustrated by the brilliant French illustrator Marc Boutavant whom I have briefly covered before. I sure wish his children's books would be published in my language!
The stickers link was found at The Small Objects, worth a post or two of its own (coming!). Actually it was found at its old address.
PS. I wonder if this Japanese commercial is made by Boutavant...
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(1963 on left, 1991 on right)
"Once again, Father is inserted into the kitchen.
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, 1963 vs 1991 editions (with revisions). The 1963 edition is my own, bought for me in the late 60's when I was a toddler, and read to tatters. The 1991 edition belongs to my kids today. I was so familiar with the older one that I immediately started noticing a few differences, and so have catalogued 10 of the more interesting differences here in this collection." writes Flickr signature kokogiak
Here's where you'll find the rest of the images: Best Word Book Ever (Flickr set)
The idea for this very suitable post on International Women's Day (link) came from Julie and Children's Illustration. Visit her post for a couple more related images.
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"Stig Lindberg's (1916-1982) designs for household items – notably ceramics – are familiar to almost all Swedes, as are his illustrations to popular children’s books. The exhibition gives a picture of Stig Lindberg's work as an industrial designer during the latter half of the 20th century."
Stig Lindberg Exhibition at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm
A nice photo display of some of his works.
Click picture for the rest of this comic series by Hans Arnold.
Uploaded to Flickr by Airchild.
