![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5GJ8Y00dQ_e3RORqPk5KhuoWk9dUaUgDPnFBbUzQOeEjeHk54sqn7BRDGMH-zCV7jSeqkgZ2SJsMvQAL9OdAujI98SOrOK1b1cwxUvy0Uh1XCXD2pu9Jq3k-2iBeiJNIV7cu/s320/blog_cartooning01.jpg)
This is one of those things I came across on eBay. All I know is that it's from WW2 and part of a series of guides for such things as carpentry, bookbinding and tin can craft -- and it's for the Use of U.S. Armed Services Personnel Only.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4HGVNjMP6R-QgCZBkhrckIdRa-7xAnpLu7WcIY-GK7qZzLBYYr8eLHuTLKz7ot4SciT4ZhkYkOrVWMofFyUonjRwkqgGjuLsIk7TfCrSddDSH5gMviEjAN6eLrUzZn40kOIr/s320/blog_cartooning02a.jpg)
You can click on the above for a larger pic.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1o69HzBdyprVdmFRpNu2EvIAfToIrA21gboIydyp3mv6naFj6ZkkcKsQFaALf1dDL88ORXh9-YRr2lL8FRym4t0VXIKWbA0YBxU53LGgIVRIclsPTYwblvsoT5HT1LBUXlHii/s320/blog_cartooningpage02.jpg)
OK, it's funny that the wannabe cartoonist Private here is spilling the ink out of his back pocket, but funnier (maybe weird-funny, not funny-funny) is the eentsy beentsy puff of smoke behind the guy's left foot. I wish there was an art credit here, but it might've been farmed off on the some anonymous Popular Mechanics art department staff members.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUB5GwscWQJwVJ2GrwYY1T9igpvDhFAVQ9ZTPWPSr7NCoJNDHL0GC01hX9mXT7jkYQTgLXtRZrXmg3kNu8Jl6Mg328cBcrsqSrh80M5YUgCw2PvpOFduspyqJ05VvhmRyEigMT/s320/blog_cartooningpage03.jpg)
I find those expressions to be rather haunting and ugly. Picking out the person's big nose to caricature may get you a sock in the puss.
Ha ha. "Pick a nose."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjikefYZ2WwDU3-7NOijn-Bde3rw8KUAQKGuvvvpjmhhQ9iAYYpov7s_UjiMaUE2FHFub-H611t0pgKos_R2YMKllZgg_BDSuuWf3Ok_72July3JjZSNADj8c1kp99HCT7dsD6v/s320/blog_cartooningpage04.jpg)
That guy with the big eye looks like a Jack Cole character. And what's with the aging, sad looking yellow kid on the lower right?
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj736tX44_y7PJBKH-_CrvTmHAtSJ_NUeQsV3mQ5YhAQoS_DPEBF9tpgvypflyx1u6AOxnePhX48GTV40z5XdMq2OL0rTlpISThc_D_sOyVgxCVBZve9rtSLDOh0g0PpxgysQgf/s320/blog_cartooningpage05.jpg)
I wish we all wore hats (aside from baseball caps and knit hats). Hats are fun to draw, and I have a personal weakness for the ol' guy-so-shocked-his-hat-flies-off-his-head image.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZy-JSCNPURoqs-3mFvbGcTLyDVy_T9ot3KjMGRd6xApkJDFk2omXmgw9aiZ0TgsBpKJI0JxgTLPLv5APTIHrlDetUl23nsTlksbJct2fm7QQ0ngt3SWQEr0jWu4-o3vxWMGRG/s320/blog_cartooningpage06.jpg)
This kinda stuff ("7 1/2 to 8 times the length of their heads") always spooked me.I don't like math, that's why I draw pictures.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZopl1s7le_IgiGtamotREKQMI6Onsz3ExfxvcKvryDAoqSDaKHoAq49XOxKoRsGI6j44uvyCvG02JIEo7bhshkHVhrcKX45f0zoqsq9c8Z7dSIyvieaU-FB32khLqz558_Enx/s320/blog_cartooningpage07.jpg)
More tomorrow.
3 comments:
Best part: "You should have some understanding of anatomy. Sketch the men in the shower or barracks." I'm thinking you had to be pretty tough to be a cartoonist during WWII.
"Hey, ease up fellas! I'm training to be a U.S. Army cartoonist!"
Great stuff - can you add in the missing page 4?
Whoops, ignore that previous post please - somehow I just missed seeing page 4.
Post a Comment