Cartooning: Byrnes' Complete Guide To Cartooning Part Six

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Thanks to Clarke Snyder for this great Hurst ad.
We continue our series of posts on Gene Byrnes' Complete Guide To Cartooning with the first part of the section dealing with...

MAGAZINE CARTOONING
Introduction by Charles D. Rice


PERRY BARLOW
Perry Barlow worked along side a star-studded group of cartoonists at The New Yorker which included, among others, James Thurber, Peter Arno, Gardner Rea, Charles Addams, Whitney Darrow Jr, Sam Cobean and William Steig. From its inception, The New Yorker was, as its founding editor Harold Ross described it, "a reflection in the word and picture of metropolitan life". The images were equal with the words, and this magazine contributed greatly to the development of cartooning. Here, Barlow discusses his ideating process for a Halloween cover.




WILLIAM VON RIEGEN
Von Riegen was featured in our previous post from this book, Part Four: Sketching. His gesture drawings were greatly admired.



EARL OLIVER HURST

Earl Oliver Hurst has been profiled extensively at Shane Glines' excellent Cartoon Retro site. Hurst was primarily a "pretty girl" cartoonist whose work appeared in Colliers, True and American Weekly. His ads for Jantzen are particularly popular among current cartoonists. If you would like to see more, there is a great book on Hurst at Amazon... The Art Of Earl Oliver Hurst







KURT STOESSEL
H. Kurt Stoessel was born in 1909 in Germany, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was an illustrator and art director for several national magazines including The Atlantic. He lived and worked in Boulder, Colorado his entire career, and passed away on this day in 1984.






FRED COOPER
You may not know the name of Fred Cooper but you certainly have seen his work. He was a letterer, poster designer, illustrator, cartoonist, writer and teacher. Leslie Cabarga describes him as the original "clip art" artist- his "big head" cartoon characters were seen in dozens of magazines of the teens and twenties, and continue to be in use to this day. For more on this influential cartoonist, see Allan Holtz's tribute in Strippers, and Cabarga's book The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper



GLUYAS WILLIAMS
We mentioned Gluyas Williams in an earlier post on Collier's Magazines From the 1930s. Williams was one of the most prolific and influential cartoonists of the 1920s. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Colliers and Life. Robert Benchley wrote, "I believe that Williams' drawings will be preserved for expert contemplation both as data on the manners and customs of our day, and as graceful and important examples of its art." For more great work by cartoonist Gluyas Williams, see David King's gluyaswilliams.com



ROBERT OSBORN
Robert Osborn was a cartoonist whose style influenced the UPA artists greatly. He worked with John Hubley on the film, Flat Hatting, which is available for download at Cartoon Brew Films.



BARTOLI
Bartoli's ink drawings appeared on the covers of quite a few issues of Holiday magazine in the late 40s and 50s. I haven't been able to find out much information about him. Perhaps someone out there knows and will post some biographic info on him to the comments below.




Many thanks to Marc Crisafulli and David King for sharing this great book with us.

If you found this post to be interesting, see... Gene Byrnes' Complete Guide To Cartooning Part One: The Men Behind The Newspaper Comics, Part Two: How To Get Ideas / Studies of Comic Strips and Part Three: Single Panel and Sports Cartoonists, Part Four: Editorial Cartoons & Comic Books, and Part Five: Sketching

Also see... Nat Falk's "How To Make Animated Cartoons" Part One: The History of Animation, Part Two: The Cartoon Studios, Part Three: How Cartoons Are Made, Part Four: How To Draw Cartoons and Part Five: How To Animate. Also, see... Willard Mullen on Animals.

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