UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION 40

[@twistoffate4791]

Loved the pieces done by Bradshaw Crandell. Hollywood didn't know how lucky they had it with such an artist capturing the beauty.

[@Ellesmere888]

Excellent ... as usual. Had never heard of Paul Colin; a nice find. I truly hope you find making these videos as enjoyable as we have viewing them.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks. There's still quite a few more forgotten poster artists to come. It's a labour of love.

[@jerrystaley1563]

#40 Another insightful video with a range of illustrators. I especially loved the work of Bradshaw Crandell. He may have not graduated from a couple of art schools but his visions of beautiful women and Hollywood stars turned out stunning. I especially liked the way you zoomed in on a full screen view of his Veronica Lake illustration (a personal heartthrob of mine). His WWII work stirred a patriotic bone as well. Thanks for another grand video!

[@petebeard]

Thanks as usual for your praise for another video. My zooming in probably had something to do with my own mild obsession with the lovely Ms. Lake.

[@DerFroschMitMaske]

Great video as ever Pete ! Nice to see some “unfinished “ work by May!

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks for liking. I thought I had responded but KZbin say I didn't so sorry it took so long.

[@joedez454]

Wonderful as usual Pete. I'm readying for a Christmas Day binge of your videos. Better than Netflix.

[@petebeard]

Hello Joe and thanks for the comment. Enjoy the binge.

[@Borella309]

Thanks for another great presentation Pete - as an Australian was aware of Phil May, so great to see him featured here.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot. It's an odd thing, but I've loved May's work since I was a student and yet I nearly forgot to feature him. More of a similar persuasion on the way.

[@greggoreo6738]

Illustrations deceive me into believing that I can hold , eternally, an image that is only fleeting.. Still. I do hold that fleeting graphic in my hand. Thank God for illustrators who are imitators of Life. Thanks, Mr Beard, for adding to the betterment of mankind. Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis

[@lindakopec7036]

I love your posts! They inspire me. I am pleased to see something about Bradshaw Crandell. I had a couple of his prints years ago, which sadly, went missing somewhere in one of my moves.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot. I'd never heard of him until I started researching for the series. I'm more a cartoon fan but you can't argue with talent like his.

[@johncollado1151]

Hi Pete.... hope all is well on your side of the pond. You obviously know my pick on this one, Phil May takes the cake, though Crandell was a very close second. It's a real shame that prolific artists have to get old and die.... just think what they could do if life was limitless! Looking forward to the next one.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and I'm glad you found something/someone you liked. I hope that continues to be the case and it would be a fairly dull world if everybody liked the same things all the time.

[@michaels7889]

Those early Phil May drawings are superbly energetic.

[@petebeard]

I'm glad you liked them - he's been a favourite of mine for a very long time.

[@12theotherandrew]

Phil May I think gives us a uniquely realistic view of people and life of his time. I admire the skill of those line only artists who capture moments of life with such accuracy.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and I don't know if I mentioned it in the video but many consider him to have been the most expressive and human cartoonists of his time.

[@johnnaber4285]

As always ... Spectacular! Thank you

[@petebeard]

Hello John. KZbin tell me I haven't responded to your comment. I could have sworn I had but if I didn't this is a belated thankyou.

[@TheMarkEH]

Another enthraling episode. Thanks Pete!

[@petebeard]

Hi Mark and sorry this reply is so late. I thought I had already done so but youtube tell me otherwise. So belated thanks

[@mijiyoon5575]

I'm trying to watch ALL of these ... US Labor Day week end...no worries about work until Tues Mornin' ...long week end bliss

[@petebeard]

Hello again and pardon me for condensing my replies into just one response, but your observation about health is something I totally agree with, and I hope you don't get sick or bored from watching too many too fast. Personally I'm a fan of delayed gratification these days.

[@mijiyoon5575]

@@petebeard I agree w/that too...while I'm on here I'll tell you I was unable to watch the French vid part *one* do to it *Buffering* though I did watch part two & three w/out it buffering. I do live in a *rural* area so this could be the reason not sure...also weather can be a problem. I'm not complaining, just letting you know the reason it may take me a looooooog time to watch ALL of them. No, I will not succumb to boredom on YT from any one channel. I only subscribe to 50 or below at one time b/c that is all I can manage. Your channel is NOT boring but highly interesting & THX again *Mr. Pete Beard*👍🎨🎬

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

I remain convinced those Banana Oil comics inspired the later Burma Shave ad campaign.

[@petebeard]

Hello again. I'm not familiar with those ads but his work was certainly massively influential on the animation of UPA studios and others in the 50s and 60s.

[@half_dane]

Thank you, Mr. Beard

[@petebeard]

You're welcome

[@FRAGAComics]

The great and funny Milt Gross!

[@petebeard]

I think so too. ..and I like your cartoons. Thanks for watching.

[@theworldwidehistoryofhisto2868]

Have you heard of Charles Twelvetrees? He was an illustrator who had done illustrations for magazine covers in the 1920s and 30s.

[@petebeard]

Yes, I came across his work a couple of months back and considered featuring him. Trouble is there's virtually no biography I can find and because his work is so specific in terms of subject there's just not enough to say. Thanks for the suggestion though, and if you have any others for consideration I'd be pleased to know about them

[@theworldwidehistoryofhisto2868]

@@petebeard Another illustrator I've found was Milo Winter. He did illustrations mostly for books in the first half of the 20th century.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm pleased to say that he on my alarmingly long list. When he'll feature is anybody's guess, but he's an interesting case. The early work is fabulous and later on he evolves into a more Disney-ish style. Personally I wish he hadn't. Again thanks for the tip.

[@gabriellew6467]

Yes - another quartet of four (😏🤭) and again revealing four artists largely forgotten, yet both Milt Gross' and Bradlow Crandell's output are in parts oddly familiar. (I have an explanation for the "green malfunction" of the first posting, although a somewhat whimsical one: the poster with the legend "PapaVert" is the key, "vert" being French for "green". And yes, i do have a strange sense of humour).

[@petebeard]

Thanks again for another favourable comment. But I checked the video and couldn't find the image you referred to so I'm a bit baffled. Not that there's anything unusual in that.

[@gabriellew6467]

​@petebeard Apologies for my apparent obscurity. In your comments below the posted video, which I always read first, you mentioned green images having appeared inexplicably, making a second posting necessary. My somewhat odd sense of humour seized upon this, when I came across PapaVert. I know, obscure, but there it is.

[@petebeard]

@@gabriellew6467 Aha..all becomes clear. The truth is I've made so many of these over quite a few years I struggle to remember the content of each one, let alone the occasional gremlin I've struggled with.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

More treats and a name, Phil May, that I will find easy enough to remember by virue of being the founder of The Pretty Things :-)

[@iangillham9647]

Terrific!

[@petebeard]

Hello Ian and thanks as ever. Somebody wiser than me said something along the lines that the only stories with happy endings are those that aren't finished. Depressing I suppose but true. Actually all the unsung instalments roll oit chronologically so I let the dice fall where they may.

[@paillette2010]

12:53 Bette Davis on the left.

[@SmithMrCorona]

For those who might not know "Banana Oil" is old American slang for, well, bullshit. EC Segar used it for the name of Olive's mother; Nana Oyl. (Her father's name was Cole Oyl, a play on "coal oil", a nickname for kerosene).

[@petebeard]

Hello again. I didn't know tht about the Oyls - didn't even know she had a family.In the UK we didn't heve the strip - just the animations and I was addicted to the early ones.

[@SmithMrCorona]

@@petebeard The Oyls were the stars of the comic before Popeye made his appearance (I didn't mention Olive's brother, Castor Oyl, or her uncles Otto Oyl and Lubry Kent Oyl). I would highly recommend you read Segar's Thimble Theater/Popeye strips. They are absurd in the best way. Not all of the humour stands up today, but much of it does, and his art gets better the closer he got to his untimely death. I also recommend the Robin Williams movie, which is very much in keeping with the original comic, and was written by fellow cartoonist, Jules Feiffer. I wouldn't really look at anything after Segar's death. It's a shadow of the creator's work.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the info. I saw the live action film when it was released, but other than Williams and Duvall can't remember much about it. I'll definitely check out the Segar strips though.

[@londomolari5715]

Milt Gross looks like the precusor to Zap Comix/R. Crumb

[@petebeard]

Hello and I would very much agree with that observation. I suspect some of the Mad artists owed him a debt too.

[@mijiyoon5575]

I have a copy of that Josephine Baker book or one similar to it

[@greggoreo6738]

I realize. ALL these series: are your thesis for your Ph. Doctorate in Art Studies..so. Dr Beard, congratulations on the degree of your Degree! Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis

[@petebeard]

No chance! I don't even have an actual degree - when I studied graphics there was no such thing. Just a humble diploma.

[@greggoreo6738]

@@petebeard There once was a man from Paloma: Whose only merit was a humble diploma. But he made his merit work, Though every hiring agent behaved like a Jerk, By asking, 'So?Michelangelo graduated with a Ph. D. from Université Del Roma?!?" [Side bar--] (Says King Henry, V, '...all things are ready / if/ our minds be so!' ("Be brave and Carry On!")Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis

[@greggoreo6738]

By the By! Since Christmas creeps behind in the squeaky leather boots of Father Chris Mass...what if? A compendium, since the work of Arthur Ruckham, 1843, of how illustrators have fancied the scenes and characters of Dickens's "A CHRISTMAS CAROL " even painted movie posters that might depict the Victorian tale of merriment and macabre specters. Just a thought. Happy Autumn, dear Guru of Graphics. Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis

[@petebeard]

@@greggoreo6738 Hi again and thanks for the recent crop of responses. It's a good suggestion but I'm pretty sure I'd struggle to find enough on just that book and it's illustrators. I have wondered whether to do a Christmas through the ages video but I hate the event so much I couldn't bring myself to be such a whore for views. And you have a point about the symbiosis of words and pictures, and those who can deal creatively with both. I've always been envious of those who could write and illustrate their own children's books or comics. On the other hand I've known a few illustrators who could barely spell 'invoice' let alone anything more challenging. And here's my all time favourite limerick, cleaned up a bit for public consumption... A vice most obscure and unsavoury Held the Bishop of Chester in slavery Amidst bestial howls He assaulted young owls In a crypt fitted out as an aviary.

[@greggoreo6738]

@@petebeard thank you, Dr Beard. My art talent that remained in a listless hibernation has, thanks to your wonderful series, awakened from its dormancy and I feel revived to again draw and renewed with a vigorous curiosity to see "where will these daydream doodlings take us?" Thanks to you, it's quite a slappy happy adventure. Many heartfelt thanks, dear professor and fellow Maker of Images. ("F. M. O. I".) Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis