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.
You can click on the above for a larger pic.
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.
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."
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?
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.
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.
More on Monday.
-- This has been an edited version of a post that originally appeared on January 23, 2007.
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