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[@TheMarkEH]

It is hard to imagine a more coherent and comprehensive encyclopaedia of illustrators than the episodes contained within Pete’s fabulous series of videos. Great work Pete, bravo!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. I must admit I had no idea there would be this many to show. And there I was wondering how to fill my retirement....

[@TheMarkEH]

@@petebeard And you are managing to fill some of my retirement too 🙂

[@johnmorgan5495]

Couldnt agree more

[@JerimeeRichir]

well said

[@davidsparks6146]

What used to take hours at the CalArts library now is a pleasant 15minutes, narrated by the soothing voice of Pete...thank you sir!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your flattering comment.

[@justicecommander9455]

Always nice to see Mexican illustrators here, and good for Mabel Lucie for hitting it big with her illustrations.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation, as ever.

[@auntieayla]

Thank you for bringing these incredible artists to our attention. Inspiring work.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It means a lot to me.

[@johngraham4053]

Always professional, Interesting and informative. Thank you Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot.

[@mikedirle520]

Amazing what you find, research, present and share! Tnx!

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and it amazes me too. Sometimes I think I'm being controlled by some benign force I dont understand. A bit like the ape in 2001.

[@LuliLulu]

I always like the video before watching because I know I’m in for a treat 🙂

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Now of course I'm dreading you encountering one you don't enjoy...

[@andrewburns9480]

Another engrossing, informative and inspiring installment, Pete. I get so many ideas from each video. Thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I like to think the channel is an inspirational resource.

[@sgmac4230]

Your channel is a wonderful illustrator’s historical resource. It’s obvious you love the craft. Thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response to the channel. It's greatly appreciated.

[@vgolovach2]

Thank you for your amazing videos.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. By the way your avatar looks just like me, except my goatee is now grey.

[@vgolovach2]

@@petebeard Well, so is mine these days.

[@rossmcleod7983]

Adore Posada, something uniquely Mexican about his original imagery, thanks again Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes, theres a gleeful attitude to the whole death thing that European protestants (me) struggle to endorse.

[@theotherandrew5540]

Thank you again. I think my life would be very dull without your many illustrations of these heroes.

[@petebeard]

My thanks for your appreciation as always.

[@Banner_Bearer_of_Eternity]

Thank you Pete! Great artists, great stories.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and many thanks for the comment.

[@evertvandenberghe]

Just love these series :)

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm delighted to hear that. Thanks.

[@rexharrison6827]

And another one bites the dust! Thank you Pete! Indeed, quite a diverse group this time. Illustrators who die relatively young seems to be a rather depressing tendency, one that Lucie Atwell managed to avoid at least!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your recent comments. And regarding Finlay I can't stop wondering what he might have done with The Oddysey or the Divine Comedy, maybe. It's unfortunate that the generally low opinion of pulp magazines kept him (and quite a few others such as Edd Cartier) out of the broader limelight.

[@localhost123456]

Very commendable work. Thank you for bringing the artists to everyone's notice.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation.

[@borromine]

Such a pleasure! Fascinating and moving. Bravo and thanks!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response to the video.

[@mijiyoon5575]

*Posada* had some interesting Day of the Dead imagery ... *Rieth* had lovely designs & images w/nice color some beautiful paintings ... *Morin* had humor & movement & Attwell had delightful imagery & skill *THX Pete* I will say these 4 all had humor in their art

[@benitobodoque6359]

You must check the work of Manuel Manilla predecessor and contemporary of Posada in the popular mexican imaginary, and if you are interested check the work of Leopoldo Méndez and "el chango" Cabral who are successors of the first two mentioned.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the names - I will check them out. Cabral has already feautured in unsung 23.

[@petebeard]

...and yet more thanks from me.

[@benitobodoque6359]

@@petebeard Gonna check It and no problem Pete, I really apreciate your work it's an honor see your reply 👋

[@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773]

Well! Mabel Atwell's work is certainly timeless. Truly adorable.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed her work. Even as I grew up in the 50s her work was still around.

[@charlestaylor3195]

I'm glad you showed work by women. It's so interesting, 4 illustrators and their work and style couldn't have been more different. Thanks for another great video Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks again for your appreciation.

[@bluefish4999]

Excellent selection of artists, your doing the art world a service by profiling these artists.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the videos and what I'm trying to do with the channel. I'm glad you think so.

[@johnzeszut3170]

The fellow has the makings of a good book!

[@rossmcleod7983]

Yes for sure and I think Pete’s work here could be dropped into any major television network - untouched.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks for the sentiment, but I don't think Sky or the BBC will be trying to outbid each other for my content. They would just make their own version with a celebrity presenter.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. It is a bit frustratiing that available information can be in short supply, but I try to be grateful that there's anything at all.

[@anniebooo]

Thank you Pete, your videos are a source of illustrative art that so missing today.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and I'm always pleased to know the content is appreciated. Thanks for your support.

[@sethbrown1763]

I liked the Atwell illustrations. Reminds me of my childhood. :)

[@petebeard]

Hello and you and me both.

[@lindaking9222]

Attwell’s illustrations for children were wonderfully gentle & fanciful as appeals to children…another most interesting quartet of illustrators

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. Even though I grew up in the 1950's Attwell's work was still everywhere in Britain, and to some extent her legacy continues here with my generation. Now of course it's Peppa Pig and worse.

[@lindaking9222]

@@petebeard me too,I grew up with Noddy & Rupert Bear,I have two books from my childhood with illustrations that are softer in colour & deeds,unlike today’s somewhat garish offerings

[@henrydarker4314]

Wonderful episode, thanks Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.

[@gabrielerosa665]

Another great video! Thanks Pete!!

[@petebeard]

Hello Gabriel, and it seems to have been a while since I last heard from you. I hope you are well and enjoyed your time in Sitges. What a great place it is.

[@gabrielerosa665]

@@petebeard may be....a little time....but I always was watching your videos....I've been at Sitges before holidays...but working!!!

[@johnmorgan5495]

Thanks Pete, brilliant work by them and by you !

[@petebeard]

Hello again and my thanks as ever.

[@janegadd1681]

Brilliant Pete, I'm hooked on your wonderful series!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and subscription. It means a lot to me to know viewers get something out of the channel content.

[@popnocturne7909]

I especially enjoyed the Posada and Attwell 😃💀💛

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. They seem to have been the most popular of this instalment.

[@JTA1961]

That last lady had more talent & intelligence in her little finger than I'll Ever have. My hats off to her.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for th comment. Regarding music if you mean it was too loud, quite a few of the earlier videos I uploaded suffer similarly. I'm fairly deaf so getting a balance was far from easy.

[@damogranheart5521]

I admire the work of illustrators. I find that those who did children's books really move me. I believe it's because as a child, I would get so deep into books that it was difficult to get me to come to meals. I was caught more than a few times with a flashlight under the covers reading after lights out.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comment, and on that theme I'm mildly ashamed of my own reluctance to read books as a kid. I was (and remain) so obsessed with the images I could never be bothered to read the words. I think I was in my 20s before I ever read Winnie the Pooh or Alice.

[@damogranheart5521]

@petebeard I was fortunate in that my parents read to me. My father would have his index finger under the words, so we learned to read at an early age. I was excited about that because I could read whenever I had a chance by myself! The illustrations by people like Joe and Beth Krush grabbed me, and the authors like Mary Norton and Elizabeth Enright kept me coming back. When we went to the library we had to do some traveling. We took my mother's big wicker laundry basket to carry the books.

[@damogranheart5521]

@@petebeard My dad would make up tunes to go with Winnie the Pooh's songs.

[@iangillham9647]

Excellent again. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks again.

[@Cmdtheartist]

Terrific to see not just the major works of these artists but the smaller, more commercial endeavors as well. The teacups were great, now I have to add those to my estate sales list, right next to the missing Fabergé eggs.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I dread to think how much such a tea set would now fetch at auction. Probably not as much as the eggs, though.

[@TheMikester307]

Wonderful! (As always!) Thanks so much!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the ongoing appreciation.

[@bernieoconnor9350]

Another winner! Thanks, Pete. Great series.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment - much appreciated.

[@bernieoconnor9350]

@@petebeard Please keep up the great work. It's so important to learn about these forgotten artists.

[@twistoffate4791]

I came home in such a foul mood on Friday, that Jose Posada's skulls suited me just fine. Amusement in the form of cycling skeletons running over a fellow skeleton was perfect. Paul Rieth's London Transport pieces were very eye-catching with the striking color combinations. Henry Morin's animals were better than his people, in my opinion, though I did really like the religious piece on the right at 9:09. As for Mabel Lucie Attwell, I absolutely adore her charming drawings of children and animals, and think it's quite a compliment that the Queen of Romania didn't just invite this talented artist for a cup of tea, but to stay for a whole three weeks!! Thanks again, Pete, for another wonderful escape from today's realities.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment. Ir's always a particular pleasure when viewers actually expand on their responses to the particular illustrators (even if adversely). The whole thing becomes more of a conversation.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

"That's it for this one...hope you'll be back for the next!!" Always too short and always back for the next!!! Of the four I was only familiar with Posada and only because 3 images were used as book covers for John Nichols' Milagro Beanfield War trilogy of books in the mid '80's (and I wouldn't be surprised if the Grateful Dead used dome)...

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as ever for your appreciation. I didn't know about those books and oddly I don't think any of the Dead's illustrators actually made that specific connection, but I'm no authority on that subject.

[@vincentgoupil180]

The Grateful Dead used Posada's "El Gran Fandago" calavera image in their concert poster. Similarly, Alton Kelly and Stanley Mouse used Sullivan J. Edmund's* (USH#49) calavera wearing a garland of roses Illustration in their "Skull & Roses" Avalon SF poster. * Illustration for the 19th century "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan". Btw, Calavera (skull), calaca (skeleton), calavera de azucar (sugar skull). Considering calaveras are for the Day of the Dead celebration it would be somewhat associated with the Grateful Dead. "La Calavera Catrina" (not shown in video) is Posada's iconic image for the Day of the Dead celebration.

[@TheKevphil]

Well, you dipped your toe into the waters of graphical narrative, so of course I'm even happier with your continuing saga.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks. Something for reveryone, I like to think.

[@DSH1LL]

These videos are so enjoyable.

[@petebeard]

Hello and your appreciation is very welcome. Thanks.

[@glynstimpson]

Great video thanks very much

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comment.

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

Another quartet of unknowns (to me, at least, other than Ms. Attwell), well done, Pete! Hard to believe this is No.86 in the series. I've been following since the beginning. I'm beginning to feel old!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment, and long service. Thanks for sticking it out, so to speak. What's harder to believe is that by my current estimate there will probably be another 86 before I'm done. God knows how long I'll have to live to see it through....

[@ianscheid5032]

I appreciate your hard work!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. Your appreciation is very welcome.

[@fuzzydragons]

a hah! Mabel Lucie Attwell, thats who did those pieces I remember. I remember seeing them when we would go up north to stay in a cabin and they had a bunch of older books you could look at. these videos are really bringing back art I remember seeing as a kid 😀

[@petebeard]

Hello and she was still illustrating througgout my childhood, and formed a large part of my early desire to draw pictures.

[@GaitaPonto]

Excellent as always.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

[@GarnetLynne]

Very nice! I've been doing a lot of printing lately and thinking of doing cards, and working on a updated version of "Little Red Cap" from Grimms, you inspire me with every posting, thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot. And I'm glad you find the channel an inspiration. As it happens I'm part way through what's turning into an epic about the illustrators of Grimms over the last 200 years. I hope to get it finished later this year.

[@richardlisiura3025]

Just stumbled onto this channel. Great content. I wonder if there is a list of all the artists covered to date. Much of the early newspaper comic artists are also forgotten. It's a shame to lose all the history that gave birth to the comic book industry. In addition, it would be nice to show how impressive some of those full page Sundays really were in relation to what is offered today.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. It's a bit messy but there are 2 lists of all heroes up to instalment 75. The first 50 are in the description box of 75 and the next 25 are in 76. The list was too big to fit in one box. And I hope you'll be pleased to see that among them there are many early newspaper comic strip artists among them.

[@petebeard]

PS There are solo videos too - such as Winsor McCay.

[@richardlisiura3025]

@@petebeard Thanks for responding. It's obvious you love doing what you do. Can't wait to check out the list. The early 1900's was a time of great experimentation in sequential art. Winsor McCay's work is probably the most famous example of genius in the field. Aside from the art, the comics of the day reflect the sign of the times and sensibilities. It's interesting to see that there were critics even then about the violence and representation of different peoples. I still laugh at some of those comics. William Marriner's "Sambo and his Funny Noises" (1905-1914) is one of the comics I collect. Don't know if that title will ever be reprinted but is no less violet then other strips of the times. Gene Carey's Simon Simple another favorite. There are many titles of different genres that are lost to today's audience.

[@humbertocarrilloramirez7989]

Very apreciated to mencion of Posada. Just for complementary data, he is the creator of the worldwide famous Catrina. Diego Rivera immortalized her in a mural

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the aoreciation - and information. I didn't know that.

[@FRAGAComics]

The great Guadalupe Posada!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I certainly agree about Posada.

[@pattheplanter]

About 30 years ago I popped into Manchester Central Library to look for some reading matter. On the second floor I found a young man and a hand-driven printing press. He was letting visitors make their own prints from some plates. I asked what he had and he showed me some original Posada plates, just A5 size. I was gobsmacked. I made one of a head and shoulders skeleton with a large hat covered in roses and another full-length of Emiliano Zapata. I eventually gave the first to a young lady undertaker and the second to a lover of revolutionaries.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. Manchester Central? Blimey! I haven't stepped foot in there since about 1990, and should probably be ashamed of myself about that.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Pat The Plant Posada's skull and skeleton shoulders with roses print sounds similiar to Edmund J. Sullivan's (USH#49) Illustration for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam used by the Grateful Dead.

[@pattheplanter]

@@vincentgoupil180 I would be very surprised if Sullivan had not seen Posada's work.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) Edmund J. Sullivan (1869-1933) Sullivan's illustration from Omar Khayyam came out 1913 the year of Posada's death. Possible. Was there a date on the print you made? Was it "Calavera Catrina" ?

[@pattheplanter]

@@vincentgoupil180 It was _Calavera Catrina_ but there was no date.

[@cinematicuprising72]

you channel is so good!

[@petebeard]

Hello and Im very pleased you think so. Thanks a lot.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Always good to see and learn something new ( to me..anyway..)...thanks as always for sharing, Pete,best wishes from the wirral...

[@petebeard]

Hi Eamonn, and I think most viewers are previously unaware of most of these unsungs.

[@PalimpsestProd]

7:36 I want that as a poster. I want that painted across an entire wall.

[@petebeard]

Hello and that is a great series of light humorous images - I assume you mean the knight in armour?

[@PalimpsestProd]

@@petebeard Yes, I particularly like his spurs making it look like he has his feet up.

[@naynaynay324]

Ooh I'm behind on being informed about artists I never knew existed but now am eagerly learning about, thanks PB. Will sample these one by one. Btw, the spanish double l is usually pronounced like a y sound, pollo = poyo, caballeros* = cabayehros (with an argentine variation which is quite odd, as it would be). *Don't believe the american/english version some anglophiles has posted on the internet.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks fir the appreciation - and the Spanish pronunciation. Why everyone can't just speak English is a mystery to me.

[@naynaynay324]

@@petebeard Ha. ha. ha.

[@hlebo]

Hello Pete. My compliments for your always-thorough and enlightening videos. If I could suggest one thing: for your videos that feature more than one artist (such as this one, or your "history of" videos, it would be very helpful if you could include the name of the artist on each of the images as the video progresses. To make a connection between the artist's name and the work would greatly increase my understanding of each artist. Many thanks! Harlan

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot for the appreciation. It didn't dawn on me until I'd made a few videos but after those early ones all the 'group' videos feature the illustrator's name with the image. As far as the unsungs are concerned their names are featured in order in the description box and at the beginning of each section so I figured that was kind of enough to differentiate.

[@thegurch7313]

awesome content

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. I just watched a couple of your videos and I must say you've got quite a way with that pen. You should make more.

[@thegurch7313]

@@petebeard oMG , thank you so so much , I do that for fun … absolutely amazed and thrilled that you took a look. Thank you 🙏 I really should post more up I had some filmed but editing and getting round to posting is low on my priority. Maybe you have just given me the boost I needed 👍🏼 I really want you to see a video about YOU, who you are and your background. It would be amazing if it could be told through the medium of illustration.

[@petebeard]

@@thegurch7313 Hello again, and I'm retired now but there's an old short video (low definition unfortunately) of what I used to do. Just search youtube for pete beard portfolio.

[@thegurch7313]

@@petebeard super duper 👍🏼 will go check it now … use it as a distraction from the design work I’ve been doing all day 👍🏼

[@wynnschaible]

Another quartet of unjustly forgottens. I don't know if you can realize over there in England just how thoroughly that Calaveras skeleton-mask has penetrated everything Mexican and now in much of the U.S. as well!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. In general it's not on most Brits' radar, but I've been aware of it for some time due to a visit to Tijuana in the 80s.

[@vincentgoupil180]

As far as holidays believe the British celebrate Guy Fawkes Night around the time Halloween (U.S.), Day of the Dead (Mexico) and Samhain (Ireland, Wales) are celebrated. The skull is used in Halloween and Day of the Dead while the Bowen Knot is used in Samhain. Probably all three of the above are of the time when the two worlds of the living and dead overlap, i.e. summer and winter, and food is offered to the spirits, ancestry, during this portal, Calavera de azucar, candy or food and clothing.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Since read a calavera is also a satirical poem. Appears a calavera as a skull celebrated during the Day of the Dead has European overtones nowadays as shown in the James Bond movie "Spectre" and also "Coco". ?

[@vincentgoupil180]

Jose Guadalupe Posada's Illustration for Arroya's broadside publication were accompanied by *calaveras* , satirical poems mocking social classes. So, Posada's Calavera Catrina 1913 broadside image supposedly mocked bourgeois women selling out to European influences. See the website Glasstire 2019 article "Jose Guadalupe Posada and Diego Rivera Fashion Catrina: From Sellout to National Icon (And Back Again?) by Ruban Cordova. Calavera is also a skull used in the Day of the Dead celebration Nov 1 or 2 ... depending on one's perspective. Note: while Posada made the illustrations for Arroyo's paper it was the publisher who wrote the text. Arroyo was friends with then current Mexican dictator Diaz. While Posada's Calavera Catrina woodcut was made in 1910 it was featured in the paper 1913. Posada passed away January 1913. Point is similiar to the German magazines, i.e. Jugend and others as the Illustratous Pete Beard (pun intended) has shown not easy being an illustrator having to walk a narrow line during certain times. Or, at all times.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and I dont know how you do it but your detective work is invariably informative.

[@vincentgoupil180]

@@petebeard Before your presentation I could not even spell P-o-s-o-d-a, er, Posada. Also, interesting to read other post commentators. Gonna like the little Keith Haring figures running around underneath the horse in your title page. :)

[@vincentgoupil180]

Btw, if anyone is interested in following up one of Pete's Illustrators, its easy... i.e. Posada Search for "Posada" eventually the Algorithm will offer some sites. Look over them for one of interest that ties in with something you know.. Watch the video *and* read its comment section. Came across "ReligionForBreakast", 'What is the Day of the Dead'. The comments will do the leg work to an article or offer different perspectives. Its that simple, a room temperture IQ person like me can do it. All that is needed is to enjoy Pete's blog to get a name and add water.

[@kidmohair8151]

out of curiosity, did you upload this for the dia de los muerto?

[@petebeard]

Hello and no I didn't. I've no idea when that wuold be - it's all I can do to remember my birthday.

[@kidmohair8151]

@@petebeard I know the feeling...is that intentional? anyways. that would be November 1st. is that ten months ago? I tried counting it on my fingers...I think it worked. (I am getting better at my kids' birthdays though)

[@albertcscs]

Lovely quartet, nicely produced as to your usual high standards. ¿Why can't the rest of KZbin follow your lead? Is this really the first appearance of M.L. Attwell, she was probably the most important woman illustrator in the UK during the golden age. Illustrating Peter Pan after Rackham tells you how highly regarded she was at the time. I can't wait for your Grimms Fairy Tales, she should be back again for that episode I trust.

[@petebeard]

Hi Albert. Thanks as usual, and I did wonder whether to make her a solo feature, but couldn't gather quite enough material. And yes she will feature in Grimms as arguably the least 'grimmsian' of all versions. And thanks for the condolences. My jury is out regarding the monarchy in general but there's no arguing she was a remarkably important figure. I doubt her son will be as admired.

[@albertcscs]

@@petebeard She was the most important person of the 20th century still alive. She knew Churchill and Eisenhower by name, knew the Kennedys and every US president since Nixon. I tried to see her in 1982 when she was in California visiting Reagan, but there were a million people in the way. It's fine Charlie is king now, but starting a new gig at 73 is going to be tough. I wish him well.

[@adventure3214]

Cartooning has more martyrs than christianity. So many lived and died in poverty for the privilige of making art.

[@petebeard]

Hello and sadly that is the case.

[@adventure3214]

@@petebeard one who didnt was Norman Lindsey, who elevated his cartoons to high art,and won praise, financial rewards and filled his life with naked ladies. So there are some winners. Also i think you are one of the best documentary makers on the tube. Goodonya.

[@petebeard]

@@adventure3214 Hi again, and thanks fr the good opinion of my work. I cant tell from your reply whether youve seen my Lindsay feature but in case you haven't he's in unsung heroes 28.

[@adventure3214]

@@petebeard i think 28 must have been the first of yr vids i watched a couple of years ago. Ive seen most of your work since, because i am educated and entertained by it, thanks again for yr many hours of research, drafting, compiling, editing, etc in a field highlighted by few. Keep on singing for the unsung.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm flattered (if a bit puzzled) that you think I would know about such a thing. I'm sorry to disappoint - but other than in a peripheral sense I have little interest in the comings and goings of the monarchy. Nothing against them either, but they just aren't on my radar. As far as empty coffins are concerned it's always possible I suppose. But why is another matter altogether...

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

It's heartwarming to learn that it's entirely possible to earn a living off drawing skelly boys.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I think it's possible to make a living drawing many different things - if you are lucky, of course. Right place, right time and all that...

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

@@petebeard right you are, sir.

[@mijiyoon5575]

Good Mornin' everyone ...I'm still not first here ...#5

[@naynaynay324]

Goodmorning, who's counting?

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Hey Pete *Thanks* was getting antsy waiting for another Unsung Heros. Don't know which is more dire, Posada's skulls or Attwell's kewpie figures ... the kewpies. :::) Yet another pointless story. As a museum preparator unboxed dozens and dozens of a patron's Mexican art collection all skulls of every shape and form. Never understood their fascination with skulls. Amulet? Thanks for the word "broadside". Looked it up which lead to penny dreadful, yellow-back and interestingly, chromoxylographic and Edmund Evans. Dude was associated with many Illustrators. ("Sweeney Todd" was a penny dreadful installation. Only familiar with the movie.)

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'll take the skeletons any day. I don't know why but I find them really appealing and funny. This probably says something about my psychological make up I probably wouldn't like to hear. I like pictures of the grim reaper too. Maybe I'm a Goth...

[@vincentgoupil180]

@@petebeard Germanic Goth or Peter Murphy Goth? Murphy :)

[@humbertoaguirre4801]

"CALAVERAS", "CALAVERAS", NO "CALAVEROS"!!!!!

[@petebeard]

OK

[@vincentgoupil180]

Humberto Rude way of showing appreciation for presenting Jose Posoda.

[@justspacegoatfarts]

Thank you pete another insightful episode !!

[@petebeard]

Hello asnd as usual you are very welcome.