Showing posts with label Ken-L Rations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken-L Rations. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Woofday Adverwoofing
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Sam Cobean was a wonderful and well respected cartoonist, who dies too young. He was one of the few cartoonists who worked for the sophisticated New Yorker and for the more bourgeois Saturday Evening Post/Colliers crowd. Although he did a couple of books during his lifetime, a lot of his gags remain unreprinted and that's a shame. Like most popular cartoonists of his period (early postwar) he did a lot of advertising as well, with just as much result. I think the Ken-L series survived his death in the early fifties. In a world where cartoon cats are everywhere, his dogs are refreshing.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Fit For A Dog
Saturday Late Arrival.
Sam Cobean was a very funny cartoonist, who worked at the New York branch of the Signal Corps film unit. I am not quite sure how many Signal Corps units there were and how the duties between the movie, print and cartoon branches were devided. If anyone knows of a good book in the Signal Corps, I'd love to know it. But since Fank Capra and other Hollywood stars worked in the movie department, the other branches are usually skipped over in most histories. Too bad, because some prett good and well known comic, cartoon and newspaper artists worked there and sometimes they struck up friendships for the rest of their lives. We know Stan Lee worked at the 'Hollywood' branch and I have a sneaky suspicion that Harvey Kurtzman may have worked there too (although there is no other evidence than the fact that there is a gap in his army history where it would fit and the fact that he seems to have known some of the people who worked there). Was there also an ourfit based in New York using Famous/Paramount studio's? Or were there only two, the 'western' one in Hollywood and the 'Eastern' one in Florida? And was there contact between the two? Did they see each other's work? At least Sam Cobean worked in one of them with Irv Spector, who left a lot of photo's and special art from tht period to his son. You can look around for it on the web, but a good place to start would be Paul Spector's own site about his fathers work and career. In the meantime, here are three ads Cobean did after the war for Ken-L Rations. He turned to cartooning and became quite a famous and well-selling cartoonist before dying at a far too young age in the early fifties. But I bet you have never seen these. I found one in my own collection and recognized the style from the cartoons Paul Spector had shown. I looked up two more on Newspaperarchive and was pleased to se that one of those was signed.
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Saturday Late Arrival.
Sam Cobean was a very funny cartoonist, who worked at the New York branch of the Signal Corps film unit. I am not quite sure how many Signal Corps units there were and how the duties between the movie, print and cartoon branches were devided. If anyone knows of a good book in the Signal Corps, I'd love to know it. But since Fank Capra and other Hollywood stars worked in the movie department, the other branches are usually skipped over in most histories. Too bad, because some prett good and well known comic, cartoon and newspaper artists worked there and sometimes they struck up friendships for the rest of their lives. We know Stan Lee worked at the 'Hollywood' branch and I have a sneaky suspicion that Harvey Kurtzman may have worked there too (although there is no other evidence than the fact that there is a gap in his army history where it would fit and the fact that he seems to have known some of the people who worked there). Was there also an ourfit based in New York using Famous/Paramount studio's? Or were there only two, the 'western' one in Hollywood and the 'Eastern' one in Florida? And was there contact between the two? Did they see each other's work? At least Sam Cobean worked in one of them with Irv Spector, who left a lot of photo's and special art from tht period to his son. You can look around for it on the web, but a good place to start would be Paul Spector's own site about his fathers work and career. In the meantime, here are three ads Cobean did after the war for Ken-L Rations. He turned to cartooning and became quite a famous and well-selling cartoonist before dying at a far too young age in the early fifties. But I bet you have never seen these. I found one in my own collection and recognized the style from the cartoons Paul Spector had shown. I looked up two more on Newspaperarchive and was pleased to se that one of those was signed.
June 1 1947:
March 21 1948:
Oct 1948:
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