Roy Rogers by Toth

Here's a gem that I picked up recently. A 1961 Roy Rogers sunday page drawn by Alex Toth!
Enjoy!

Question: How many sundays did Toth ghost for Mike Arens? Would love to see the rest.

Want to see the dailies he ghosted? Check them out by clicking HERE!
Thanks Ger!

Tothday

For info in new Alex Toth releases, scans of original art and Toth discussions etc: check out Toth of The Town on Facebook!

Coming soon:

Tothday Nightmare

Tothday comes on a Friday this week.
In case you don't follow ComicLink's auctions you might not be aware of this one. An 8 page story called "Nightmare", from ca 1970. Pencilled by Alex Toth and probably written by Gerry Conway.

Nice to see this hidden treasure see the light of day.
Download images to see them in larger format or go to the website of ComicLink.

Fans of Toth should also check out the Facebook group Toth of the Town and the official website of the Alex Toth estate Tothfans.

Alex Toth x 4

The brand new catalog from Graphic Collectibles featured these four Alex Toth model-sheets. All new to me. Enjoy!

Mermaid Margarine

So this is what the Toth drawings I posted lately were done for. Mermaid Margarine. Who would have guessed.

Edit June 27, 2014: Just found out that the full set of Mermaid Margarine presentation pieces can be found in Scott James' comicartfans gallery! Just click HERE.

Tothday

These concept pieces by the one and only Alex Toth recently surfaced on eBay. Wonder if they got any connection to the two pieces I posted last October? If so it looks like a mash-up between Cinderella and The Little Mermaid. Hmm...

Now, I'm even more eager to get the last of the three Toth books: Genius Animated.
To be published in May by IDW.

Tothday...

... comes on a Sunday this time of the year.

Chris Samnee is currently posting a lot of nice Toth art on his tumbler.
Just click HERE to check it out.
Besides having good taste when it comes to comic book art he's one helluva artist himself! Working in the Toth tradition of high contrast black/white. A visit to his website is a must, I'd say. http://www.chrissamnee.com/

While I'm at it.
Here's a nice Toth piece that I found on the net some time ago. Forgot where. A cover to Sponsored Comics "At Ease". Published?

Tothday

Is it Friday? No, it's Tothday.
Two pieces of concept art by Alexander Toth.
(Images caught on eBay.)

Robin Toth

Alex Toth boarding Disney's Robin Hood?
Well, at least it looks that way to me.

This storyboard was published, uncredited, in the Disney Archive book "Design" along with three other pieces that also looks like the work of Toth. 
Nice to see his take on "the Fox". ;)

 /Joakim.

PS.
Did a search and found Floyd Norman commenting Toth's work on Robin Hood in August 2007: "I'll bet you didn't know that Alex Toth did some incredible story work on Disney's "Robin Hood" in the seventies. Want to know what Disney thought of the work of Alex Toth? I found his fantastic sketches discarded in a heap behind some stuff on the second floor."

A few more, really beautiful, Toth boards can be found on the blog of Joseph Lacroix by clicking HERE.

Genius x 3 and Barney too

Some great news for all of us Toth fans!

The book "Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth" has expanded into a slipcased three book set! Read more HERE!

Barney Google
Got the new Barney Google book produced by Yoe Books!
And it's everything I expected it to be, and more. Besides all of the dailies from 5-18 to 12-26 1922  there's also loads of rare artwork shot straight from the original art, and plenty of photos of Billy DeBeck.
If you like funny stuff, and now I'm talking really laughing-out-loud-funny stuff, you should get this volume. Don't be scared about he fact that the strips are nearly 90 years old. The reason Barney Google was such a big success was that DeBeck, like Roy Crane and other greats, wrote in a more "modern" way than most of their contemporaries. It's still funny and gives us a glipse of 1920's life in the US.
Now, go get it!
Time's a wastin'!

Toth vs Campbell

Remember the E Simms Campbell illustrations I posted a few days ago?
I thought the one with a woman in a bathtub looked familiar. And now I've found the Alex Toth illustration I was thinking of.
Just take a look at the photo below. I guess Alex saw Campbells artwork in Esquire and did his own "version" of it.
BTW: Was Alex artwork printed anywhere before it appeared in Manuel Auads "Black & White" book?