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Friday, November 07, 2014

RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 3

Links:
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 1
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 2
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 3
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 4
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 5
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 6
RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 7

This is day 3 of shown these great old cartoons from the Russ Cochran catalog from 2003. Some great prices here -- especially looking at it from twenty years on! The catalog is page after page of scans of the original art for sale, with estimated prices. Here are 37 more:

Bil Keane

Fontaine Fox

Hank Barrow

Bill Freyes

Tom Little

Feg Murray

"Cy Dembo

"TAD" Dorgan

Jimmy Hatlo

Al Fagaly

Alex Toth

Ziegler

Howard Purcell (?)

Thomas Nast

G.E. Ciani

Winsor McCay

Thomas Nast

Clare "Dwig" Dwiggins

Frederick Opper

Paul Szep

Lyman Anderson

Unknown

Milton Caniff

Dick Moores

Gis Edson

Frank King

John Romita

Dick Calkins

Quin Halle

Neg Cochran

Ed Dodd

Gene Mack

Wayne Boring/Stan Kaye

Thursday, November 06, 2014

RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 2

Part 1 is here.

Some more scans from this 2003 catalog of original art, Here are some oldies but goodies:

Opper

Ted Powers

L.M. Glackens

F.M. Howarth

Winsor McCay

Vlare "Dwig" Dwiggins

Bela Zaboly

Neg Cochran

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Bill Watterson draws 2014 Angoulême Festival Poster

© Bill Watterson / 9e Art+ 2015

Bill Watterson draws the art for the official 2014 Angoulême Festival. The man is all over the place!

More here.

Hat tip to Liam Francis Walsh!

RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 Part 1

(Above: art by the one and only Jack Davis.)

Here are some of the items for sale from RUSS COCHRAN'S COMIC ART AUCTION #67 magazine. All bids have to be placed by 6:00pm Central Time, Tuesday, December 16, 2003. So, yeah, this is over twenty years old. Cry, if you like, over the low, low prices!

There's some comic art here I have never seen before. Especially of interest: the "specialty art" drawn for promotional use, or comic book pages.

Dan Smith/Charles Kahles:

Milt Gross, BROSS X-AGGERATIONS, circa 1920:

Mel Graff, THE ADVENTURES OF PATSY, 1936:

Milton Caniff, unfinished drawings of Poteet Canyon and Summer Olsen:

Harry Haenigsen, "Penny at the BEach," 1951

Ken Ernst, specialty drawing of MARY WORTH characters:

Alfred Andriola, KERRY DRAKE drawing, maybe from a comic book, 1951:

Zack Mosley, SMILIN' JACK specialty drawing, 1951:

Fred Lasswell, specialty drawing of ANUFFY SMITH and "Mona Loweezy:"

John Cullen Murphy, "Big Ben Bolt and Charity O'Hara Enjoy the Beach" specialty drawing:

Raeburn Van Buren, ABBIE AND SLATS specialty drawing:

Jack Callahan, early, undated strip:

Reg Smythe, ANDY CAPP daily with extra (!) panels, 1965:

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Video: AVENGERS 2: AGE OF ULTRON - Official Extended Trailer (2015) [HD]

Oscar Winning Short WHY MAN CREATES

This is one movie that was threaded into the Bell and Howell high school AV Department projector over and over again.

WHY MAN CREATES was written by Saul Bass and Mayo Simon, with Bass directing. It's one of those movies that I watched at least once a year from about fifth grade onward. George Lucas, who was a student at USC at the time, is the uncredited second unit director.

Bass was known as a graphic designer and his work for movie title sequences was in demand.

The nature of creativity is the elusive subject in WHY MAN CREATES. I like the movie. There's a lot of animation in it, a lot of funny bits, and some really great writing. Hang around for the ping pong ball factory story.

It won an Oscan and had its TV premiere, in a shortened version, on CBS' 60 Minutes program on September 24, 1968. I have to wonder if that ping pong ball sequence, which I always thought of as radical and terrific and big spoof of religion, was cut.

Related: Annyas.com: a great site that has stills of movie title sequences of Saul Bass and others.

Monday, November 03, 2014

International Comic Arts Forum 2014

Above poster by

Columbus, OH: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum presents ICAF 2014. It's free and open to the public.

Press release:
OSU is thrilled to be hosting the International Comic Arts Forum this year, a long-running celebration of comics in academia and beyond! This three day festival is entirely FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and will feature a great line-up of cartoonist presentations.
Please join us for any or all of the following:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH
Schulz Auditorium / Billy Ireland
Cartoon Library and Museum

8:00-9:30 PM: JUSTIN GREEN and CAROL TYLER in conversation

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14TH
Cartoon Room at the OHIO UNION

3:00 – 4:00 PM: PHOEBE GLOECKNER Spotlight
Moderator: Brittany Tullis
4:30-5:30 PM: HANNERIINA MOISSEINEN Presentation

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15th:
Cartoon Room at the Ohio Union

2:00 – 3:30 PM: DASH SHAW Presentation
4:00 – 5:30 PM: JEFF SMITH in Conversation with Tom Spurgeon

7:00 PM: MARCH Presentation with CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, ANDREW AYDIN and NATE POWELL, followed by performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock
(LOCATION TBD)

For the full schedule visit: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/2014/09/30/icaf-2014-at-osu/

For more information about ICAF visit: http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/

Questions? cartoons@osu.edu

LI'L ABNER: "Artists Make Big Money!"

From October 29, 1939: LI'L ABNER decides he's gonna be an artist because "Artists Make Big Money!"

This piece of original Al Capp art was nicked from Russ Cochran's Comic Art Auction mag for their January 29, 2003 auction.