Thursday, May 11, 2006
Media: Huckleberry Hound Weekly 1964
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.
Another great item lent to us to digitize by Kent Butterworth... This time it's a British newspaper insert from March 28th, 1964 featuring the Hanna-Barbera Characters...
The interesting thing about this piece isn't so much the quality of the artwork... it's pretty generic... it's the quantity of it. I eliminated a few pages of puzzles, games and stories, but the majority of the sheets are devoted to large, full-page comic stories. You would never see such a generous collection of comics in a throw-away newspaper insert today. But there is wisdom behind the generosity... The best way to get kids to watch the Huckleberry Hound Show (and buy Kelloggs cereal) is to engage them with the characters and situations. What better way to do that than a loss-leader newspaper insert?
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1 Comments:
Steve, I'm afraid that's not a newspaper insert, but a genuine British newsstand comic (notice that it's got an old-time price, 6d, on the cover). The Brits traditionally size their newsstand comics larger than ours... the aspect ratio isn't always fixed and some have historically been a gigantic, floppy 9" by 12" (old issues of MICKEY MOUSE WEEKLY, for example).
It might also look like a giveaway to us due to not all being in full color; but to keep costs down, most British comics were partly in black and white or two-color well into the 1990s.
Nice, isn't it? The art may be a bit generic, but I believe it represents American studio artists working for the overseas market, as only some of the material was published here by Western (Dell/Gold Key).
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