CARzy blog by Nelson Dewey

Jaleen Grove | September 10th, 2009

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CARzy is a brand new blog devoted to early hotrod cartoons. Nelson Dewey writes,

Does CARtoons magazine ring a bell? How about
Hot Rod Cartoons?
CYCLEtoons?
SURFtoons?
(Clue: they’re comic books, published in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. There was even one titled SKItoons!)
I’m Nelson Dewey, one of the cartoonists that contributed to them — nearly 2000 pages of cartoons: multi-page stories, gags and spreads!

Nelson is going to slowly post them. As a historian, he’s caught my interest with this little note:

As you read, please remember — this was done 37 years ago! Styles have changed. Humor has changed! I have changed! (Maybe I’ll get lucky here, and all these things will have somehow come back into style.)

Well, let’s see!

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  • very cool!! i was just thinking about CARtoons magazine yesterday, and how much i missed it.
  • This is a great addition to the internet. Here is a niche market of cartoons that thrived from the 50's till the early 80's. I never understood the attraction of car and cartoons, I guess it was a transition period from tween to teenager. Your love for comics and cars entwined till you moved on to girls. I would guess these magazines were popular in California and Southern states where the cult of the car and women go hand in hand.(pun)
  • There were lots of readers in Canada, too. But yes, SoCal and the South were probably the biggest markets.

    I was told the circulation hovered around 100,000 copies sold per issue. For over 25 years. Not bad for a mag that didn't carry ads for most of its life.
  • If it's not bad form to self-proote here, I'd like to mention that today's CARzyBlog subject is how one publishing company dealt with thousands of pages of original artwork.

    http://carzy.ca/blog
  • Surfing & googling I found this. I am sure you know that my father, Pete Millar, creater CARtoons along with Carl Kohler. In fact I just found some orignal scetches of ideas for the birth of CARtoon (from the 50's)
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