{"id":38348,"date":"2022-07-26T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38348"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:55:24","slug":"a-chilly-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/07\/26\/a-chilly-banana\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chilly Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

I was\u00a0looking around the old flat file cabinet in my studio when I came across this illustration that I barely remember doing. I’m not sure of exactly when I did it or what it was for. It was back before I got a Mac and was still doing all of my work by hand. This shivering banana was done like an animation cell. The ink drawing was shot as a photostat on clear film. The color was a combination of color paper placed behind the film or gouache painted on the back of the film. The assignment was probably for the food section of The Philadelphia Daily News<\/em> back in the early to mid 1990s.<\/p>\n

If I find the tear sheet, I’ll follow up on this post with the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was\u00a0looking around the old flat file cabinet in my studio when I came across this illustration that I barely remember doing. I’m not sure of exactly when I did it or what it was for. It was back before … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4953,7,700],"tags":[5401,17,92,3661,5,272,5402],"class_list":["post-38348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","tag-banana","tag-cartoon","tag-cold","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-shivering","tag-spot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9Yw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38546,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/17\/the-wonder-of-white-bread\/","url_meta":{"origin":38348,"position":0},"title":"The Wonder of White Bread","author":"Joe","date":"August 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This was another cartoon spot illustration that I did for The Philadelphia Daily News as part of \"The Secret Life of Food.\" It ran with the shivering banana that I featured here at Willceau Illo News recently. Similar to the banana, the black ink was shot as a photostat on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blast from the Past"","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Wonder-of-White-Bread.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Wonder-of-White-Bread.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Wonder-of-White-Bread.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":38356,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/07\/27\/lost-and-found\/","url_meta":{"origin":38348,"position":1},"title":"Lost and FOUND!","author":"Joe","date":"July 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A little digging turned up the tear sheet featuring the shivering banana from yesterday's post. It was for an article in the The Philadelphia Daily News titled \"The secret life of food,\" and it was published on August 28, 1996. I forgot all about this. It's back when everybody read\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blast from the Past"","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Secret-Life-of-Food.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38418,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/03\/chambers-of-commerce-get-a-tattoo\/","url_meta":{"origin":38348,"position":2},"title":"Chambers of Commerce – Get a Tattoo!","author":"Joe","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Back when tattoos were still novel and newspapers had readers and thus advertising revenue and thus budgets to hire freelance artists, I did this cartoon for The Philadelphia Daily News. My illustrations accompanied an article entitled Chambers of Commerce which promoted new, hip and happening eateries, bars and small businesses\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blast from the Past"","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tattoo-guy.jpg?fit=640%2C699&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tattoo-guy.jpg?fit=640%2C699&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tattoo-guy.jpg?fit=640%2C699&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2258,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/02\/23\/taking-the-plunge\/","url_meta":{"origin":38348,"position":3},"title":"Taking the Plunge!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Flanakin is doing something insane for a good cause this weekend. Mr Flanakin will be participating in Tim's Rivershore Polar Plunge 2011 for the VA Special Olympics. Michael Flanakin found the image to the left and chased me down through the internet and through this site to do the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/shivering-guy-tone.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6780,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/26\/birthday-crown\/","url_meta":{"origin":38348,"position":4},"title":"Birthday Crown No.12","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"February 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Every year I make a birthday crown for our son Lloyd based on something he's accomplished that year or something that he's interested in. This year it's movies! I gathered images from the golden age of film noir movies posters for their use of color and type treatments. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Collage"","block_context":{"text":"Collage","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/collage-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LloydinCrown1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LloydinCrown1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LloydinCrown1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20187,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/31\/the-creep\/","url_meta":{"origin":38348,"position":5},"title":"The Creep","author":"Joe","date":"December 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Fiddling around a bit with a quick little sketch which I brought into Affinity Photo. I scanned the sketch below; turned it grayscale; played with the levels a bit to darken it up and threw a bit of digital color around with a Wacom tablet. I like this technique and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Illustration"","block_context":{"text":"Illustration","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/illustration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}