Friday, February 10, 2012

Who Drew the Art for THE JACK BENNY SHOW?



A friend writes asking the identity of the artists responsible for this JACK BENNY PROGRAM title card -- both the faces on the left and the very famous caricature on the right. This is a darn good question. Can anyone cite an answer?

Some of the clues:

The CTVA site declares it a 1963 title card and ...

Ted Naron's A Blog of My Own includes the same graphic and has a clip of my favorite Benny foil: the "YESSSSS" guy: Frank Nelson. This gives me an excuse to show Frank Nelson:



The "YESSSSS" guy continues in THE SIMPSONS:



But I digress. Back to my point: Let me know if you can find out who drew those graphics.

2 comments:

Laura said...

Still working on the cartoon heads, but the sketch is René Bouché.

http://www.renebouche.com/artist/?page_id=455

Smeghead2068 said...

Loved it when Jack went shopping.