Around Twice a Month

Leftover Day. 

 

Followers of this blog will know I like movie ads that used comic strips or even comic strip ads that use movies. This daily series from 1941 falls under the latter category. In fact, it wasn't even a movie ad every week. On weeks there was no movie to plug, they used some kids and called ot Around Our Town. The artist is unknown.

When they did not have a movie to plug, the series reverted to Around Our Town. 

 

Jergens Is As Good As Mine

Saturday Leftover Day.

I have shown movie ads, I have shown Lou Fine commercial art, but I don't think I have ever shown (or seen) these Lou Fine drawn Jergens ads using a movie rather than a particular spokespercon to endorse the product. I have no date on them but they seem to be early in Fine's career. Maybe even from before he did those movie ads in 1947/48, which you can see if you follow the links.

Just Like In The Movies

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Over the years one of the special things I have shown are the many movie ads thatw ere done in Sunday sections. Lou Fine, one of my favorite commercial artists of the forties and fifties, did a bunch of them in the late forties, mostly for RKO movies. My friend Michael Vassallo had ben showing material from the New York Sunday section on one of his Facebook accounts and he came up with one I did not yet have...

He also had another Lou Fine ad in the Philip Morris series, which I have collected almost completely.

Fine Trumps Good

Wednesday Advertising Day.

In the late forties Lou Fine did a series of comic strip style movie ads for RKO. I have hown many (if not all) of these and you can see them if you follow the link. In a movie theatre magazine I found these ads for the first one (and presumably the start of the series). One as a ful page and one in two halves. The interesting part of course is the ad copy that goes with it.

Fine An' Wild

Wednesday Advertising Day.

From the I Love Comic site come two Sam Spade ads I think I didn't show yet. I love Lou Fine's realistic art work in the late forties, which I why I have tried to find all of his movie ads as well. And what do you know, I Love Comics also had one I didn't have! Follow the link for more , film ads, Sam Spade and Charlie Wild Wildroot ads.

Additional Ads

Wednesday Advertising Day.

I have added this Dr. Lyons ad by Mel Graff to an earlier post I did with more of them.

Another add-on: one of those movie ads I like so much.