krighton Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 nice that you've kept this thread going for so long...amazing collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 I was looking through some early Magic Comics and spotted Pete Alvarado's name listed as one of the $1 prize winners in their cartoon contest. Magic Comics #13 (August 1940) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Don't know who Alvarado is? Check out his bio on Wikipedia: Peter J. Alvarado, Jr. (February 22, 1920 – December 27, 2003) was an American animation and comic book artist. Alvarado's animation career spanned almost 60 years. He was also a prolific contributor to Western Publishing's line of comic books. Animation Alvarado was born in Raton, New Mexico, and grew up in Glendale, California. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute in the 1930; after graduation he was hired as an assistant animator by the Walt Disney Studio. He provided uncredited work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Around 1939 Alvarado left Disney to find work in New York City, where he provided his earliest comic book art for Funnies Inc., which supplied artwork for Fawcett Publications and Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics). Alvarado returned to California and Disney Studio in 1941. He left Disney in 1946 to work for Warner Bros. Animation. Alvarado became the Background painter for Chuck Jones, and his first screen credit was on the 1947 Pepé Le Pew short, "Scent-imental Over You." He held this position until 1951, Working on several cartoons such as the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous, and Chuck Jones oscar winning short For Scent-imental Reasons. His last work with Jones was "Scentimental Romeo" in 1951, another cartoon featuring Pepé Le Pew.[3] Alvarado went on to Replace Cornett Wood as chief layout artist for Robert McKimson's unit. After Warner Bros. Animation studios closed their doors, Alvarado joined DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. He worked on several Pink Panther shorts, as well as the short lived animated series Super President. Around 1971 Alvarado joined Hanna-Barbera as a layout artist; he worked on such series as The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971), Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974), and many others. Alvarado also provided animation and layout work for Film Roman (Garfield and Friends). Alvarado was the recipient of the 2001 Winsor McCay Award, for his lifetime of achievement in animation, as well as the Animation Guild's 1987 Golden Award. Comic books Concurrently with his animation work, Alvarado also worked as a prolific comic book illustrator. As noted above, he worked from 1939 to 1941 providing artwork for Funnies Inc. Alvarado returned to the comic book world in 1947, in collaboration with Charles McKimson (brother of animator Robert McKimson). McKimson was the art director at Western Publishing Company, and the two (in collaboration with Charles' brother Thomas) drew the Roy Rogers strip under the pen name "Al McKimson." Alvarado went on to draw the Gene Autry newspaper strip and comic book, the Mr. Magoo newspaper strip for its entire run, a long period of the Little Lulu newspaper strip, some work on the Flintstones and Yogi Bear newspaper strip, and fill-in work for almost all the Disney newspaper strips, including an extended period as the main artist on Donald Duck. The bulk of Alvarado's work at Western was for their "funny animal" line of comic books. Alvarado provided artwork for almost every Disney (Chip 'n Dale, Scamp), Warner Bros. (Tweety & Sylvester, Road Runner), Hanna-Barbera (Yogi Bear) and Walter Lantz (Andy Panda) licensed title. He also illustrated comic book adaptations of the animated films The Rescuers, Robin Hood, and Gay Purr-ee. Alvarado retired from animation in 1999. He died of a heart attack on December 27, 2003, in La Crescenta, California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 From Tip Top Comics #7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 If I was around in the late 1930's I'm certain I'd be reading Tip Top Comics. I wonder if any of the young cartoonists who were entering the Cartoon Club contests ever became a professional artist? Tip Top Comics #32 (December 1938) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 The following is copied from the Jack Davis Foundation website: Link Jack Burton Davis Jr. was born in Atlanta Georgia on December 2nd, 1924. He grew up in an apartment at 2840 Peachtree Road on the north side of Atlanta in an area known as Buckhead. The only child of Jack and Callie Davis, Jack Jr. expressed an early interest in cartooning and started out laying on the floor reading the Sunday comics, just eating it up and trying to copy them. "The humor just sort of came out of me. Back when I was a kid, we listened to the radio and they had some great stuff on Sunday night like Jack Benny, and then Lum and Abner. You probably don't remember them, but I would imagine what they looked like and what they were doing, and that just made me want of draw them. Seeing cartoons was also a great experience for me. When I first started drawing I would watch Mickey Mouse cartoons and even though they were silent headed do something funny and the idea of capturing that on paper really interested me. We used to go to the S&W Restaurant in Atlanta before you ate they had a projector at your table that showed Mickey Mouse not Donald Duck yet, it was just a black and white reel and you would crank it. That fascinated me so I would come home and try to draw that stuff." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 If I was around in the late 1930's I'm certain I'd be reading Tip Top Comics. I wonder if any of the young cartoonists who were entering the Cartoon Club contests ever became a professional artist? Tip Top Comics #32 (December 1938) And you might have signed up for the Tip Top Comics club and received this button in the upper left! I wonder if the next page in this book has an offer for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 And you might have signed up for the Tip Top Comics club and received this button in the upper left! I wonder if the next page in this book has an offer for it? I've looked through a bunch of Tip Tops and can't find any mention of the button. Do you have any idea what the time frame was when the button was being offered? Is there a date on the reverse side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 No, stuff like this isn't usually dated. I was told that it was late 1930's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 I found it in issue #35. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Cool, thanks for looking Bang. Too bad it doesn't actually show it. What year is it from? Here's another cool very early comic book club. Probably not much out there from this comic but I've got this... I've got a lot more but I'll post them over in my thread when I get the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I found it in issue #35. "How long do you save your comic magazine?" "Three weeks." OUCH! If he only knew... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Cool, thanks for looking Bang. Too bad it doesn't actually show it. What year is it from? 1939 Here's another cool very early comic book club. Probably not much out there from this comic but I've got this... Very nice. I'll check my Crackajacks and see if I can find any mention of the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Love and War Stories January 1930 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Somebody has anger issues. Thrilling Detective (February 1939) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 From Tip Top Comics #10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 From Tip Top Comics #10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
