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Vintage wordplay

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Billy Mavreas has scanned in some beautiful cartoon illustrations from a couple of old Canadian grammar books from the 1940s called Using Our Language. The drawings are by a man named Lloyd Scott, and they combine words and pictures in clever ways to help teach the concepts in the books. They’re so great, I couldn’t pick just one to show, so here’s another:

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  • http://www.inkyboy.com/ inkyboy

    Tangentally related, I suppose: A strip ran for many years in one of the Chicago papers around 1968 or so that taught reading for beginners. The illustrator’s name was signed “Becky”. I loved that stuff. I’ve tried looking the artist up on the internet, but you sure get a lot of returns on “Becky”.

  • http://www.inkyboy.com/ inkyboy

    Tangentally related, I suppose: A strip ran for many years in one of the Chicago papers around 1968 or so that taught reading for beginners. The illustrator’s name was signed “Becky”. I loved that stuff. I’ve tried looking the artist up on the internet, but you sure get a lot of returns on “Becky”.

  • http://www.inkyboy.com inkyboy

    Tangentally related, I suppose: A strip ran for many years in one of the Chicago papers around 1968 or so that taught reading for beginners. The illustrator’s name was signed “Becky”. I loved that stuff. I’ve tried looking the artist up on the internet, but you sure get a lot of returns on “Becky”.

  • http://www.groveartworks.com/ jaleen

    Excellent! If anyone finds out anything more about Lloyd Scott please let me know.

  • http://www.groveartworks.com/ jaleen

    Excellent! If anyone finds out anything more about Lloyd Scott please let me know.

  • http://www.groveartworks.com jaleen

    Excellent! If anyone finds out anything more about Lloyd Scott please let me know.

  • http://www.groveartworks.com/ jaleen

    mental note to self: google first, post second.

    Lloyd Scott’s fonds are in National Archives: http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem⟨=fre&rec;_nbr=104573&

    He’s one of the few illustrators to be so honoured… maybe because of his other creative output in film and painting.

  • http://www.groveartworks.com/ jaleen

    mental note to self: google first, post second.

    Lloyd Scott’s fonds are in National Archives: http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem⟨=fre&rec;_nbr=104573&

    He’s one of the few illustrators to be so honoured… maybe because of his other creative output in film and painting.

  • http://www.groveartworks.com jaleen

    mental note to self: google first, post second.

    Lloyd Scott’s fonds are in National Archives: http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=fre&rec_nbr=104573&

    He’s one of the few illustrators to be so honoured… maybe because of his other creative output in film and painting.

  • http://web.mac.com/jimpy723/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html jimmyemery

    These are wonderful. They remind me of Michael Witte’s work – I wonder if he saw them and maybe even drew from them a bit on his way to finding his style? Thanks for the link.

  • http://web.mac.com/jimpy723/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html jimmyemery

    These are wonderful. They remind me of Michael Witte’s work – I wonder if he saw them and maybe even drew from them a bit on his way to finding his style? Thanks for the link.

  • http://web.mac.com/jimpy723/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html jimmyemery

    These are wonderful. They remind me of Michael Witte’s work – I wonder if he saw them and maybe even drew from them a bit on his way to finding his style? Thanks for the link.