Media: Harrison Cady's Boys Life Birds Eye Views

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 2 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about print cartoonists.

Harrison Cady was one of the most famous and prolific cartoonists of the early decades of the 20th century. Although he is best known as the illustrator of Thornton W. Burgess' Peter Rabbit series of books, and the cartoonist behind the newspaper comic bearing the same name, Cady was an active illustrator as well. His illustrations and comics appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Life, St. Nicholas Magazine and Boys' Life.

With this posting, I'd like to introduce our latest Archive Alliance member, Jonathan Barli of Digital Funnies. Jonathan is hard at work on an important project- documenting and restoring early cartoons and comics in digital form. When I spoke to him about becoming and Archive Alliance member, he instantly understood what we are trying to do at the Animation Archive and agreed. Jonathan has donated high resolution TIFF images of his entire collection to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. He offers a wide variety of fascinating material for sale on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. Please take a moment to visit the Digital Funnies website, and drop him an email thanking him for contributing to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive.

Here is a selection of Cady's Birds' Eye View illustrations for Boys' Life magazine from Harrison Cady Volume 1...








I will be featuring more beautiful comics from the Digital Funnies collection in the near future.

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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