JIM SMITH CARTOONS

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

More Voyage

Image 1 is unsoftened, image 3 is softened. That is the best I can get from the small size of the magazine thumbnails. They certainly don't do justice to the full size which I would like to see. They are still good examples of a lost art. Image two is the chief with a young crewman who was killed in every episode.

Voyage

Comic covers from the 60s. The images were scanned from small images in Starlog magazine but convey the good use of color and composition, very lively and enjoyable to look at.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Ali Fairy Conan

The fairy image is from a storyboard done in 1977 or 78, for a local TV ad for a dry cleaning co. I basically borrowed a Disney character but I uglied it up a little. The good thing about it was learning to do animation at all levels, including cel painting, camera, animation, storyboard, and such. Being a 4 or 5 man operation everyone did a little of everything just well enough to survive. We also did a lot of technical films for industry. The bottom sketch is a young Ali.

20th century art

3 watercolor samples from my tech illustrator period.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

David P. Smith corner

Hi friends and neighbors, sorry for being gone so long. My knucklehead son forgot how to work his computer. Thought for the day: "If you're going to the men's room, mention my name - you'll get a good seat.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Popeye

After watching all the DVDs in the Popeye set, this reporter can say that the best Bluto animation is in the cartoon "Pleased to Meet Ya" Superb Bowsky maybe his best stuff. He comes to life for this one cartoon and then goes back to merely great in the following cartoons. My favorite cartoon is still Ali Baba.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

More new old purty crap

The Spooky is from 1969. Nice color on the washing machine. The George Liquors are from model sheets made with comic book images.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

House of Secrets

Mark Segal, Richie Hass, and me at the final show for House of Secrets, 2006. The hand on photo 3 is Mark Mylar's.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Richie Hass, Mark Mylar and myself at House of Secrets

The late, great Richie Hass bass player and beloved husband of Michelle at a show for House of Secrets comic book store in Burbank. Bottom photo is Mark Mylar, sax player of reknown and myself, about 2005 or 2006.