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Filboid Studge’s historical humourous illustration blog

Blogger Filboid Studge (see also: Irv Spence’s Cartoon Diary) offers up a whole mess of old timey humour illustration from his collection of old Life magazines dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century, focusing on classic cartoonists. He’s covered early T.S. Sullivant and James Montgomery Flagg, among others, and his current entry on Warner Brothers director Bob Clampett unearths the legend’s first published work (as a 12 year old!) in the LA Times Junior Times.

There is some truly amazing artwork to be discovered here… Consider this baby bookmarked!

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  • http://comixsouthafrica.blogspot.com/ Jason

    Rad link, thanks. Would love to see some H.M. Bateman out there too.

  • http://comixsouthafrica.blogspot.com/ Jason

    Rad link, thanks. Would love to see some H.M. Bateman out there too.

  • http://www.machelpmaui.com/ Scott waters

    What a wonderful collection of work from back when people could draw and publications would print their work. Imagine how much time some of these took. This was the golden age of illustration.

  • http://www.machelpmaui.com Scott waters

    What a wonderful collection of work from back when people could draw and publications would print their work. Imagine how much time some of these took. This was the golden age of illustration.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/ Jed Alexander

    Always been a great fan of Sullivant, but who is this Norman Lynd? Great stuff!

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com Jed Alexander

    Always been a great fan of Sullivant, but who is this Norman Lynd? Great stuff!

  • http://www.bibi.org/box/archives/2006/01/2006_bloggies_the_fi.html Bibi’s box

    2006 Bloggies – The finalists

    Finally Bloggies updated its site. Cool? Not really… if you take a good look, you are going to see weird things: many very popular blogs but not so good, many non-blogs and the absence of excellent blogs (in detriment of the popular and not so good)…

  • endless, nameless

    God I need to learn to ink like this. Thanks for posting.

  • endless, nameless

    God I need to learn to ink like this. Thanks for posting.

  • http://www.americanwalrus.com/2006/07/24/that-old-timey-kind-of-drawing/ The American Walrus Magazine » That old timey kind of drawing

    [...] (via Drawn! via MeFi Projects) [...]

  • http://home.earthlink.net/~erhard/sketch.htm eR1c

    Excellent!

    I love looking at artists sketches… good sketches like this.

    Too much of illustration today has to be so clever, unique, and different that I think we lose the art of truly great sketching. I’d love to see a modern day painter like John S. Sargeant or a great sketch artist like Barron Storey make it as an illustrator today …that would be refreshing.

  • http://home.earthlink.net/~erhard/sketch.htm eR1c

    Excellent!

    I love looking at artists sketches… good sketches like this.

    Too much of illustration today has to be so clever, unique, and different that I think we lose the art of truly great sketching. I’d love to see a modern day painter like John S. Sargeant or a great sketch artist like Barron Storey make it as an illustrator today …that would be refreshing.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/ Jed Alexander

    Barron Storey IS making it as an illustrator today. He’s not dead as far as I know. At least I hope not. But I think there are plenty of amazing draftsman working in illustration right now, along with Storey. The level of craft is still pretty high. But pen and ink work at this level is a rarer thing. I’ll put in a vote for R. Crumb.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com Jed Alexander

    Barron Storey IS making it as an illustrator today. He’s not dead as far as I know. At least I hope not. But I think there are plenty of amazing draftsman working in illustration right now, along with Storey. The level of craft is still pretty high. But pen and ink work at this level is a rarer thing. I’ll put in a vote for R. Crumb.

  • http://barronstorey.com/ barron

    no barron storey is not dead
    and still a great believer in pen and ink
    and of course the journal
    thank you for the kind words

  • http://barronstorey.com barron

    no barron storey is not dead
    and still a great believer in pen and ink
    and of course the journal
    thank you for the kind words