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The GA "Short Bus" Thread Post your unpopular books!
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I find the Dolly really disturbing but love the Fairy Tale one!

 

It's funny how many people had a similar reaction to Dolly. I was going to use the word creepy.

I think they would drag Dolly behind the short bus.

 

Little doubt about what inspired your painting style, shiverbones!

 

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I find the Dolly really disturbing but love the Fairy Tale one! thumbsup2.gif

 

I agree 100%. Weird Dolly! ZD was quite capable to put out strange books, to boot -

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Don't you go dissin' Ziff! poke2.gif

 

I like this one. blush.gif

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Yeah, i bought this book specifically for its relation to what I paint. When I saw it pouing over a gerber recently I almost *spoon*! I never noticed it before, yet it has the same deliriously sweet yet creepy as can be paradox I go for. I"d love to find a VFish so I can frame it....

 

...drag behind the short bus.... 27_laughing.gifforeheadslap.gif

 

The Fairy Tales #2 is such a nice looking book, and its about 10 times tougher then the #1 which is always available. The reflection under the bears chin is so masterfully done cloud9.gif I wonder who the artist on these books were, its obviously the same guy....

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How about these then? Religious themed books tend to earn no respect. I am one short of the full run on these. I am still missing the Story of David, issue # 4 - (Please no salacious comment about Samson and his relationship with the lion ... they are struggling ok.)

 

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I've mentioned this before somewhere but this is the best work Lehti ever did -

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Scrooge those are beautiful. If and when you upgrade please keep me in mind for these cast-offs.

 

Sadly you don't upgrade.

 

How many pages are these ? 48?

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Yeah, i bought this book specifically for its relation to what I paint. When I saw it pouing over a gerber recently I almost *spoon*! I never noticed it before, yet it has the same deliriously sweet yet creepy as can be paradox I go for. I"d love to find a VFish so I can frame it....

 

...drag behind the short bus.... 27_laughing.gifforeheadslap.gif

 

The Fairy Tales #2 is such a nice looking book, and its about 10 times tougher then the #1 which is always available. The reflection under the bears chin is so masterfully done cloud9.gif I wonder who the artist on these books were, its obviously the same guy....

 

Norman Saunders and Clarence Doore painted some Ziff-Davis covers, but did they ever work in this style? I bet the experts at the Grand Comic-Book Database discussion lists could ID the artist in an instant, although Fairy Tales isn't indexed yet.

 

Jack

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Yeah, i bought this book specifically for its relation to what I paint. When I saw it pouing over a gerber recently I almost *spoon*! I never noticed it before, yet it has the same deliriously sweet yet creepy as can be paradox I go for. I"d love to find a VFish so I can frame it....

 

...drag behind the short bus.... 27_laughing.gifforeheadslap.gif

 

The Fairy Tales #2 is such a nice looking book, and its about 10 times tougher then the #1 which is always available. The reflection under the bears chin is so masterfully done cloud9.gif I wonder who the artist on these books were, its obviously the same guy....

 

Norman Saunders and Clarence Doore painted some Ziff-Davis covers, but did they ever work in this style? I bet the experts at the Grand Comic-Book Database discussion lists could ID the artist in an instant, although Fairy Tales isn't indexed yet.

 

Jack

 

Allan Anderson painted quite a few covers and I'm pretty comfortable with recognizing his work -- these don't look like his.

 

Although taking at second look at FTP 11 the house and lady in the background are typical of him.

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Thats a good lead, i'll do some research on Anderson thumbsup2.gif

 

They had an article on him and Norm Saunders in Illustration magazine 11.

 

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thats him completely! The way he handles dark browns and greens, and the way he lightens them is a dead giveaway! WOW! Now I have to find that issue....

 

Thanks so much!!!

 

You're welcome. I scanned these a while back when Scrooge and I were discussing attribution of some Kid Cowboy cover art.

 

Off the top of my head I'm thinking Anderson's the most profilic ZD comic book cover artist. I like his pulp covers for ZD as well.

 

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Random musings - we talked about all fabulous dogs recently but we forgot to mention Flash. Huh you will say, Flash what? Flash who? Flash the (other) Wonder Dog ( 893naughty-thumb.gif don't tell Rex or Rang-a-Tang), the Hooded Horseman's dog of course -

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and of course, there's also the trusty Lightning, companion of the Western Kid -

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I like his pulp covers for ZD as well.

 

You can't beat a $5 value for only 25¢. Wonderful split covers. I believe that Dave Saunders is going to have a comprehensive look at Anderson's life in an / the upcoming issue of Illustration actually.

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Off the top of my head I'm thinking Anderson's the most profilic ZD comic book cover artist. I like his pulp covers for ZD as well.

 

After all this great Anderson art on display, we have to cleanse our palates with a truly mediocre Short Bus covers. I can't think of a duller one than this.

 

 

Will Fido make it over the fence? The suspense is killing me.

 

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Jack

almost as dull as my Disclose Your Identity bio

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