I have to wonder why things didn't work out between her and Scorsese.
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Meet the folks
Frank and Helen (c.1941).Is it any wonder they had such good looking kids?
From Frank I got my cartooning technique. From Helen I got the zany ideas and punch-lines.
I wish they could have been around longer.
Mannie
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Happy Easter (Islanders)
It's another Easter miracle! I think this blog is being resurrected, maybe.
Here are two of my takes on Easter.
This first one is from the student newspaper of Delta College near Bay City Michigan. I was a cartoonist for the Delta Collegiate.
This dates from March of 1975. At that time I'd been out of the Navy for less than a year and was totally enjoying the commuter college scene. Delta was a delightful little community College that whet my appetite for doing the whole college thing and getting some very groovy adulation for my cartooning skills...all this and the G.I. bill too!
That year at Delta could be entitled "Girls, Girls,Girls", though, hasn't Elvis already claimed that one?
I was happy to be a civilian getting a whopping $270.00 a month from Uncle Sam to go to college. I made a bee-line to the student newspaper with my portfolio and secured a job as the staff cartoonist knocking down five bucks per!
This offering for Easter is one that I thought was totally funny. On reflection, I still think it works but where in the heck is that hunter's other leg? And why is that rabbit's weenie smoking?
This little 3-D cartoon I did around 1987. I enrolled in an adult ed ceramics class through Grand Rapids Public Schools. There was a group of about 18 wannabe potters and me. The instructor was an ancient and tiny art teacher named Alice. She was initially upset that I didn't want to throw pots or use glazes. She kept trying to coax me away from the 3-D cartoon idea.
Well, here we are twenty years later, she's dead but my sculpture is still pretty vivid.
I was so taken with this Easter Island gag that I did a second one that was three times the size...and not nearly as good as this original.
Happy Easter to all you islanders out there!
Mannie
Here are two of my takes on Easter.
This first one is from the student newspaper of Delta College near Bay City Michigan. I was a cartoonist for the Delta Collegiate.
This dates from March of 1975. At that time I'd been out of the Navy for less than a year and was totally enjoying the commuter college scene. Delta was a delightful little community College that whet my appetite for doing the whole college thing and getting some very groovy adulation for my cartooning skills...all this and the G.I. bill too!
That year at Delta could be entitled "Girls, Girls,Girls", though, hasn't Elvis already claimed that one?
I was happy to be a civilian getting a whopping $270.00 a month from Uncle Sam to go to college. I made a bee-line to the student newspaper with my portfolio and secured a job as the staff cartoonist knocking down five bucks per!
This offering for Easter is one that I thought was totally funny. On reflection, I still think it works but where in the heck is that hunter's other leg? And why is that rabbit's weenie smoking?
This little 3-D cartoon I did around 1987. I enrolled in an adult ed ceramics class through Grand Rapids Public Schools. There was a group of about 18 wannabe potters and me. The instructor was an ancient and tiny art teacher named Alice. She was initially upset that I didn't want to throw pots or use glazes. She kept trying to coax me away from the 3-D cartoon idea.
Well, here we are twenty years later, she's dead but my sculpture is still pretty vivid.
I was so taken with this Easter Island gag that I did a second one that was three times the size...and not nearly as good as this original.
Happy Easter to all you islanders out there!
Mannie
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
When smoking was fab.
When I was working a Acraforms back in the early and mid 1980s, it seemed like all of us smoked, or at least bummed smokes while trying to convince ourselves that we didn't really smoke anymore. This was also reflected in my cartoons of the era.
Here's about half of the Acraforms slide department:Nancy, Chuck, me, and Pete. Chuck was the only nonsmoker. In the background is that famous photo of Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald as Willard Scott looks on.
My version of Jack Ruby's mechanic (drawn about the same time as the group shot above) was also a smoker.
Another mechanic from the late 1970s. He looks alot like one of the characters on "King of the Hill" (also named "Dale", I believe).
Similarly, I think I did the original "Bad Santa" twenty five years prior to his arrival in theaters.
The human zippo has an FDR sophistication.
Some guys can make smoking look pretty glamorous.
A cartoon drawn for On-the-Town.
A large-format shriner who also looks quite a bit like...
this three-dimensional cartoon I did in Clay, called "Corporate Structure 1"After years of normalizing smoking through my cartoons the big irony came along when I found myself doing gratis work for the American Lung Association. Like second-hand smoke; what goes around, comes around.
I've been smoke free for over twenty years now, nary a puff. I made a deal with a gal I was dating back then: I'd quit smoking if she'd start using her seatbelt. Twenty-some years later, I don't know if she stuck her end of the deal, I'm just glad that I stuck to mine.By the way, for me, it was like throwing a switch. One moment I smoked, the next I didn't.
Here's this week's installment of Pembroke. This one's really dated. Tony Randall the actor had an equally high profile as an anti-smoking crusader. I guess you had to be there.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em, just not upwind of me, thanks.
Mannie
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