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Tag Archives: Cartoon
I’d Like to Sell the World Some Seeds
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, ad, Cartoon, CO2 Comics, comic book, comics, Harvey Comics, humor, Sad Sack, seeds, stranger danger, vintage
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The Midget and the Duchess
Scanned from a girly magazine from the late 50’s.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged Adam magazine, adult, adults only, burlesque, Cartoon, naughty, vintage ads
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So Long, Son of Sketchbook From Hell
Another old sketchbook that has withstood every attempt to commit a decent drawing to it’s pages has bitten the dust. It continued to fight my efforts, but occasionally when I cracked it open on the Market-Frankford El without a notion … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Jocko Madigan
I wrote a post recently about another cursed sketchbook that I bought back in the ’80s. I called this particular book The Son of Sketchbook from Hell. It was a hardbound, squarish book that resisted all efforts of committing something … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1940s, Cartoon, cartoons, Jack Webb, Joe Williams, old time radio, Pat Novak for Hire, program, Sketch, sketchbook, Tudor Owen, Willceau
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Son of Sketchbook From Hell
I was up tending to my long neglected third floor studio trying to cut a path through the clutter so I could get some work done when I uncovered another forgotten, hardbound sketchbook on a shelf in a closet. At … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, drawing, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, Tom Jones, Willceau
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Altered States
This was a drawing I did back in the late 1980s in the cursed Sketchbook from Hell. I created it as a belated birthday card for a girl I was pursuing who dodged my advances. Belated birthday cards featuring a … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, Altered States, Cartoon, cartoons, chimp, comic, comics, devolution, Drawer Cards, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Midnight Cowboy
I saw this guy when I was on a Route 23 Bus stopped at the traffic light at 11th and Pine in Philadelphia. This guy (a kid, really) was fishing an alternative weekly newspaper from one of the honor boxes … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, dweeb, hick, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Philadelphia, podunk, punk, punk rock, punker, Sketch, sketchbook
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It Came From the Sketchbook – The Brush
This was a guy I saw a few too many times during my commute when I would take SEPTA’s regional rail line. I think a college or two was along the line, and this fellow either worked at a college … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Commuting, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, co-ed, college, over-the-hill, punk rock, regional rail line, sad, SEPTA, Sketch, sketchbook, train
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It Came From The Sketchbook – The Little Black Book
A few weeks ago I decided to give the What I Like About Comics category a rest and blow the dust off of the It Came From The Sketchbook category shaking loose some of the drawings from sketchbooks I’ve got … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, art, art supply, Cartoon, cartoons, Charrette, CO2 Comics, comic, comic book, comics, commute, hard-bound, humor, Illustration, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, Market-Frankford El, Monkey & Bird, pencil, Philadelphia, SEPTA, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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