Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Biography: Milton Caniff and Norman Rockwell in Coronet
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 comics.
The Milton Caniff Estate recently loaned the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive copies of two issues of Coronet magazine from 1942 and 1947 to digitize. Here are three articles of interest to cartoonists and illustrators...
AMERICA'S PIONEER JAP FIGHTER
By Howard Whitman
NORMAN ROCKWELL: The People's Painter
By Jack H. Pollack
CONFESSIONS OF A COMIC STRIP ARTIST
By Milton Caniff
Thanks to John Ellis and the estate of Milton Caniff for sharing this with us!
If you enjoyed this post, see... Coronet Magazine December 1945, Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Sunday Pages, Steve Canyon Dalies, People On Paper, Byrnes' Complete Guide To Cartooning Part One- Meet The Men Behind the Comics and Part Two- Studying Comic Strips, Dispatch From Disney's Part One and Part Two, Propaganda Part One and Part Two, Dan Gordon's Superkatt, Rube Goldberg's Side Show and Alex Toth Model Sheets
STEVE CANYON TV SHOW
The Steve Canyon Special Edition DVD is out now! To order it and for more info on the Steve Canyon TV show, see... www.stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com
STEVE CANYON AT AMAZON
Fantagraphics has a great book on Caniff's career, and Checker has released year by year reprints of the classic Steve Canyon strip. Caniff was a master storyteller, and the first few years of Steve Canyon are examples of his genius at the height of its powers. Click on the pictures for more info.Stephen Worth
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