Dick Shaw is best know among cartoon historians for being one of a group of cartoonists who worked in animation, including Virgil Partch and Sam Cobean. He is also mentioned as the writer of the daily Mickey Mouse strips in 1942 at InDucks, where they add that he worked as a story man for Disney from 1944 to 1955 and for UPA from 1955 to 1962. The full list of cartoons he worked on is here. All the cartoon work he did apart from that was as a sideline. And so, apparently was some illustration work. Follow the link to see more of his cartoons.
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Showing posts with label Dick Shaw. Show all posts
Friday, November 20, 2015
Old Inbetweeners
Wednesday Illustration Day
Dick Shaw is best know among cartoon historians for being one of a group of cartoonists who worked in animation, including Virgil Partch and Sam Cobean. He is also mentioned as the writer of the daily Mickey Mouse strips in 1942 at InDucks, where they add that he worked as a story man for Disney from 1944 to 1955 and for UPA from 1955 to 1962. The full list of cartoons he worked on is here. All the cartoon work he did apart from that was as a sideline. And so, apparently was some illustration work. Follow the link to see more of his cartoons.
Dick Shaw is best know among cartoon historians for being one of a group of cartoonists who worked in animation, including Virgil Partch and Sam Cobean. He is also mentioned as the writer of the daily Mickey Mouse strips in 1942 at InDucks, where they add that he worked as a story man for Disney from 1944 to 1955 and for UPA from 1955 to 1962. The full list of cartoons he worked on is here. All the cartoon work he did apart from that was as a sideline. And so, apparently was some illustration work. Follow the link to see more of his cartoons.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Pershaw!
Monday Cartoon Day.
Last week I showed an 'educational' advertising series by Ralph Stein. Today I ave a imilar series from a year later by Dick Shaw. Again, they were done for te ravelers Society Service and offered to small town newspapers, probably for free. They did not have a set publication date, so I can't say how many there were. These are the eight I could find. After that I have some of Dick Show's cartoons for Colliers', some for other magazines and even a magazine illustration I scanned form an issue of Liberty.
Dick Shaw was a contemporary of Virgil Partch, Hank Ketcham and Sam Cobean (and partied with them on many occasions). Like them, he started out in advertising, before deciding during or shortly after the war to go his own way as a free-lancer. Never one of the best seller, he was a pretty good artist and I wonder why he never got a newspaper series of his own. I scanned and clipped his stuf whenever I come across is and I believe he deserves a better reputation.
Last week I showed an 'educational' advertising series by Ralph Stein. Today I ave a imilar series from a year later by Dick Shaw. Again, they were done for te ravelers Society Service and offered to small town newspapers, probably for free. They did not have a set publication date, so I can't say how many there were. These are the eight I could find. After that I have some of Dick Show's cartoons for Colliers', some for other magazines and even a magazine illustration I scanned form an issue of Liberty.
Dick Shaw was a contemporary of Virgil Partch, Hank Ketcham and Sam Cobean (and partied with them on many occasions). Like them, he started out in advertising, before deciding during or shortly after the war to go his own way as a free-lancer. Never one of the best seller, he was a pretty good artist and I wonder why he never got a newspaper series of his own. I scanned and clipped his stuf whenever I come across is and I believe he deserves a better reputation.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Gag Masters
Monday Cartoon Day.
Virgil Partch and Hank Ketcham weren't the only cartoonists who started out in animation. Carl Barks was another famous example of someone who was capable of switchint between pitching cartoons and ideas for storyboards. Other we find in the forties were Dick Shaw (who worked with Partch on the Duck cartoons and remaned a lifelong friend), T. Hee (who most famusly diected the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia), Roy Williams (co-writer of Dumbo among his many accomplishments) and John Sibley (who animated Goofy in the forties and fifties). Most interesting find for me is an early cartoon of Gene Hazelton, whose ideas and style would have such an impact on Hanna-Barbara later on.
Monday Cartoon Day.
Virgil Partch and Hank Ketcham weren't the only cartoonists who started out in animation. Carl Barks was another famous example of someone who was capable of switchint between pitching cartoons and ideas for storyboards. Other we find in the forties were Dick Shaw (who worked with Partch on the Duck cartoons and remaned a lifelong friend), T. Hee (who most famusly diected the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia), Roy Williams (co-writer of Dumbo among his many accomplishments) and John Sibley (who animated Goofy in the forties and fifties). Most interesting find for me is an early cartoon of Gene Hazelton, whose ideas and style would have such an impact on Hanna-Barbara later on.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Give Me Liberty
Monday Cartoon Day.
I have shown a couple of Dick Shaw's cartoons earlier. He is one of a group of ex-Disney artists who turned to cartooning after the war. But unlike Virgil Partch, Hank Ketcham or Dick Moores, he did not end up with his own newspaper strip, except maybe the shortlived Side Tracks panel for the aborted Wednesday comics I reported on a year ago. The illustrations for Liberty magazine show he wasn't a one trick pony. According to a short blog entry (with a wonderful illustration by Virgil Partch) here (don't skip the comments), he was the only one of his group who returned to Disney, as a storyman on Make Mine Music and Donald Duck shorts. Later he went to UPA where he wrote dozens of Magoo shorts.
Monday Cartoon Day.
I have shown a couple of Dick Shaw's cartoons earlier. He is one of a group of ex-Disney artists who turned to cartooning after the war. But unlike Virgil Partch, Hank Ketcham or Dick Moores, he did not end up with his own newspaper strip, except maybe the shortlived Side Tracks panel for the aborted Wednesday comics I reported on a year ago. The illustrations for Liberty magazine show he wasn't a one trick pony. According to a short blog entry (with a wonderful illustration by Virgil Partch) here (don't skip the comments), he was the only one of his group who returned to Disney, as a storyman on Make Mine Music and Donald Duck shorts. Later he went to UPA where he wrote dozens of Magoo shorts.
Monday, April 05, 2010
I think that I shall never see a page as lovely...
Tuesday Comic Book Day.
Today I am sharing the remainder of the Redwood Weekly Gazette. I have posted about the unique comics page of the weekly paper about a year ago and it immediately was one of the best visited pages in hte history of this blog. The comics page for this paper was done by a group of animation artists moonlighting under the name of their own company. Nothing much came of it, but for a short while at least, they all had their own strips. I refer you to the previous page (follow the tag) to read more about these, in the blog as well as in the comments. Together with the earlier post, these cartoons represent all page sin my collection. There are a few missing, as the run of the Redwood Weekly in Newspaper Archive is a bit spotty for a short period at the end of 1950 and the beginning of 1951, after which the full page experiment was stopped.
And I draw your special attention to the gag panel done by Dick Shaw. I think he is on eof the funniest contributors of this page and his train centered gag panel mus have gone over big with his previous boss, Walt Disney. Dick Shaw was a contemporary of Hank Ketcham and Virgil Partch and I have added some of his earlier cartoons to the end of the post, as well as one caroon whoch seems to have been part of a campaign by the Traveler's Society.
True Oct 1950:
True Oct 1950:
True Nov 1951:
Oct 23 1952:
Tuesday Comic Book Day.
Today I am sharing the remainder of the Redwood Weekly Gazette. I have posted about the unique comics page of the weekly paper about a year ago and it immediately was one of the best visited pages in hte history of this blog. The comics page for this paper was done by a group of animation artists moonlighting under the name of their own company. Nothing much came of it, but for a short while at least, they all had their own strips. I refer you to the previous page (follow the tag) to read more about these, in the blog as well as in the comments. Together with the earlier post, these cartoons represent all page sin my collection. There are a few missing, as the run of the Redwood Weekly in Newspaper Archive is a bit spotty for a short period at the end of 1950 and the beginning of 1951, after which the full page experiment was stopped.
And I draw your special attention to the gag panel done by Dick Shaw. I think he is on eof the funniest contributors of this page and his train centered gag panel mus have gone over big with his previous boss, Walt Disney. Dick Shaw was a contemporary of Hank Ketcham and Virgil Partch and I have added some of his earlier cartoons to the end of the post, as well as one caroon whoch seems to have been part of a campaign by the Traveler's Society.
True Oct 1950:
True Oct 1950:
True Nov 1951:
Oct 23 1952:
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