Last week Alan Holtz shared a couple of scans of a George Scarbo rarity called Be Sure you're Right on hisStripper's Guide blog (along with a bio of Scarbo by regular contributor Alex Jay). Based on the succes of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, it was a series of panels filled with unknown facts or corrections of popular believe. Alan Holtz calls it a minor effort and given Scarbo's excellent work as a caricaturist a couple of years later and a funny animal cartoonist in the forties and fifties, he may be right. But I am a sucker for these kinds of facts and Scarbo's style is strong as ever. All in alle, the series ran for only two years.
Showing posts with label George Scarbo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Scarbo. Show all posts
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Scaring Up Some Scarbo
Wednesday Illustration Day.
Last week Alan Holtz shared a couple of scans of a George Scarbo rarity called Be Sure you're Right on hisStripper's Guide blog (along with a bio of Scarbo by regular contributor Alex Jay). Based on the succes of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, it was a series of panels filled with unknown facts or corrections of popular believe. Alan Holtz calls it a minor effort and given Scarbo's excellent work as a caricaturist a couple of years later and a funny animal cartoonist in the forties and fifties, he may be right. But I am a sucker for these kinds of facts and Scarbo's style is strong as ever. All in alle, the series ran for only two years.
Last week Alan Holtz shared a couple of scans of a George Scarbo rarity called Be Sure you're Right on hisStripper's Guide blog (along with a bio of Scarbo by regular contributor Alex Jay). Based on the succes of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, it was a series of panels filled with unknown facts or corrections of popular believe. Alan Holtz calls it a minor effort and given Scarbo's excellent work as a caricaturist a couple of years later and a funny animal cartoonist in the forties and fifties, he may be right. But I am a sucker for these kinds of facts and Scarbo's style is strong as ever. All in alle, the series ran for only two years.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Seeing Stuff
Monday Cartoon Day.
I like these Sunday pages of Seein' Stars. They are often clipped and sold seperately, which seems to make sense. Every ones in a while I run across a few in a complete paper. I am adding a similar panel George Scarbo did in the tiries and a Sunday version he did in 1944.
I like these Sunday pages of Seein' Stars. They are often clipped and sold seperately, which seems to make sense. Every ones in a while I run across a few in a complete paper. I am adding a similar panel George Scarbo did in the tiries and a Sunday version he did in 1944.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
The Comic Boo
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
George Scarbo was an interesting artist. He made his name as a caricaturist in the thirties and did many panels using that skill. I have wrtten about him a couple of times and shown some of his stuff, all pretty remarkable. In the forties, he created a Sunday feture with animals for the NEA syndicate and continued doing it for many years. I have come across a lot of them in the various microfiches files I go through to get strips like Scorchy Smith and Patsy in Hollywood, but I rarely clip them because it usually is to dark. Apparently, the secondary color scheme Scaro used doesn't really survive the microfiche process all that well. On the back of a longer run of another strip I came across a lot of color samples of The Comic Zoo. So many that it took me wuite a while to scan them and prepare them to be put here. I considered doing it in two posts, but frankly, I do not think the strip is special enough to warrent double attention. Scarbo seemed to treat his animals as caricatures rather than portraits or cute depections. And there wil be some that will find his distinct non-Disney approach interesting. But he does cover the same terrain as Walt Kelly would do only a few years later and he is no Walt Kelly. Then again, almost no one was. So here is the largest run of The Comic Zoo you will ever see anywhere - including here.
George Scarbo was an interesting artist. He made his name as a caricaturist in the thirties and did many panels using that skill. I have wrtten about him a couple of times and shown some of his stuff, all pretty remarkable. In the forties, he created a Sunday feture with animals for the NEA syndicate and continued doing it for many years. I have come across a lot of them in the various microfiches files I go through to get strips like Scorchy Smith and Patsy in Hollywood, but I rarely clip them because it usually is to dark. Apparently, the secondary color scheme Scaro used doesn't really survive the microfiche process all that well. On the back of a longer run of another strip I came across a lot of color samples of The Comic Zoo. So many that it took me wuite a while to scan them and prepare them to be put here. I considered doing it in two posts, but frankly, I do not think the strip is special enough to warrent double attention. Scarbo seemed to treat his animals as caricatures rather than portraits or cute depections. And there wil be some that will find his distinct non-Disney approach interesting. But he does cover the same terrain as Walt Kelly would do only a few years later and he is no Walt Kelly. Then again, almost no one was. So here is the largest run of The Comic Zoo you will ever see anywhere - including here.
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