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Video: R. O. and R.
ShareMichael Sporn and others have posted a link to an interview with my great teacher, R. O. Blechman, on the Comics Journal. Somehow or another reading that combined with whatever other web browsing I’ve been up to connected me to … Continue reading
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Cartoons of Glory
ShareThis is an article from the November 3, 1986 New York Magazine that was in The Ink Tank pressbook. I won’t repost all the copy, click the images to read everything. The photo on page one is from an MTV … Continue reading
Ink Tank Poster
ShareI used to have a few of these, but floods, vermin and other plagues did them in. One of R. O. Blechman’s original models for The Ink Tank was the Magnum Photo Agency. Replacing photographers with illustrators, he thought he … Continue reading
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Cards
Sharehttp://liesjekraai.blogspot.com/We received a lot of email Christmas cards this season. Probably several dozen. The downside is that the number of real cards is dwindling. Somewhere around 40. It’s a product of a poor economy as much as anything. Even our … Continue reading
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The Miracle of the Fur Lined Coat
ShareIn 1996 Stewart, Tabori and Chang published “The Life of Saint Nicholas” by R. O. Blechman. It went on to be criminally underappreciated by critics, cartoonists and the book buying public in general. It’s hard to say why. Poor marketing? … Continue reading
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Simple Gifts – No Room At The Inn
ShareFor years this was the artwork on the ASIFA-East membership form. While I understand the urge to update after 30 years, I do feel the organization lost a little something going with a more generic “contemporary” design. Again, the drawing … Continue reading
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Simple Gifts – No Room At The Inn, Animals
Share“No Room At The Inn” may be the crowning segment of “Simple Gifts” -no mean feat considering the strength of the others. At the very least it represents the apex of the simple line Blechman style. After this, his long … Continue reading
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Simple Gifts – The Great Frost – Some Designs
ShareI’d like to share some frame grabs of the Seymour Chwast’s designs for “The Great Frost” excerpt of Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” which he created for R. O. Blechman’s “Simple Gifts” in 1977. Blechman once told me that Al Brodax was … Continue reading
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Toonerville Trolley – The Next Day of Christmas
ShareThe next segment in R. O. Blechman’s “Simple Gifts” is “Lost and Found” using Fontaine Fox’s classic Toonerville Trolley characters. This was animated by Bill Littlejohn. The great animator left us earlier this year. I don’t think I ever spoke … Continue reading
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Act One; or, How Many Days of Christmas Did You Say There Were?
ShareNo mistaking it, Christmas is being flung in our faces at every opportunity. Every shop window, every magazine ad, channel to channel on the dial. As a respite from the grossness of the holiday, I thought I’d post some segments … Continue reading
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