Bud Blake may be best known for his long-running Tiger comic strip. Before then he was a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, and before that he had a 17 year stint (working his way up the paste-up department to Executive Art Editor) at an advertising firm. He had a long and great career. Here are some rarely seen spot illustrations for The NewsTime Fun Time Book from Scholastic. It was edited by Elvira Donahue and is copyright 1964. There is a note on the indicia page:
"The contents of this book are based on the Stunt Club page from NewsTime, Scholastic's classroom magazine for grades 5 and 6."
Basically, a collection of corny jokes from My Weekly Reader, with some really fun illustrations that I had never seen before -- all drawn in Bud Blake's fun style. This is the third edition, which tells me that -- corny or not -- this was a popular book!
And here are some page spreads. Obviously, click to embiggen.
More Bud Blake:
Sunday Pictorial Review Covers
Bud Blake:Saturday Evening Post Cover Artist?
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