Our Old Age

I like Our Nuwe Age by Athelstan Spilhaus. I like the optimistic view of the future, from a rime we still though science was the answer to everything and not the root of all evil. I like the simplistic drawing style of Carl Rose, who started the series, explaining complicated facts and theories using cartoons. I like the slicker style of Gene Fawcette even better, making every invention and every gadget look cool.I even like the name of the author of this series, who sounds more like a scientist than anyone I know.

Like Turning On A Faucet

Monday Cartoon Day.

I like this panel feature, but I don't think I have to energy to go and find every daily for the five pkus years Gene Fawcette drew it.

Gene Genie

Wednesday Illustration Day.

As a comic book artist Gene Fawcette was pretty bland. He drew in what I like to call the 'generic Aerican realism' style. A bit of poto-realism (without the photos), a bit of Milton Caniff, a bit of Joe Kubert, all put together to be a unobjectionable as possible. But when he drew Our New Age from 1962 to 1975, he was unsurpassed. I don't know what it is i like so much about these Sundays. Maybe it's the unabashed positive view of the world and the possibillities of science, the embodyment of John F, Kennedy's hope for a brighter future. Or maybe it's the way that lines and shadows are used to represent complex machines - the same way Milt Caniff and Noel Sickles shadows and light style can inspire awe, or when the best of the photo-realistic artists (Stan Drake, Leonard Starr, Neal Adams or Dave Sim) find a way to graphically represent reality. The quality of these Sundays is remarkable - especially if you realize he did a two to three image daily version as well!