UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION PART 24

[@emptyentertainments7914]

Thank you Pete, yours is a true treasure of the internet.

[@petebeard]

Cheers for your favourable comment - it may sound corny but it means a lot to me.

[@tonygohagan2766]

Excellently absorbing, Elegant and Edifying. Thank You!

[@petebeard]

Thanks and what a nice trio of adjectives.

[@TheMarkEH]

Your videos must be the most consistently interesting, entertaining, accessible and well researched on KZbin. I especially liked hearing about artists who employed their artistry in a wide range of situations, car design, household decorative items etc.. This was another great video Pete, thank you

[@petebeard]

What can I say, Mark? Comments such as yours keep me motivated. I've always found the no mans land between design and illustration to be pretty interesting territory too.

[@12theotherandrew]

I’d certainly like to have some John Austen on my wall! Thank you again for lifting the day! 😊

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for yet more appreciation. I'm guessing from your comment that you haven't seen my video "The Illustrations of John Austen". If so, feel free to immerse yourself in the wonder of his work at greater length.

[@rubygreen1433]

I knew you would include John Austen one day! Thank you for all these amazing videos. I hope to become an illustrator after uni so it's great to learn about three inspiring illustrators :)

[@petebeard]

Hi again. I had no idea that John Austen even existed until I started making the videos. I think the early stuff - despite the obvious Beardsley influence - is some of the best pen work I've ever seen. When I was young I thought Beardsley was the greatest ever but now I prefer Austen. Similar others are on the way...

[@rubygreen1433]

@@petebeard Yes, I prefer him to Beardsley too, especially in his more art deco phase as that is my favourite movement. I look forward to the upcoming artists :)

[@iangillham9647]

Very worthwhile, another excellent episode. What a treasure this series is!

[@petebeard]

Hello Ian and my gratitude as usual. It really is good to know that viewers appreciate the videos.

[@Ellesmere888]

Great content, so well presented. Thank you sir.

[@TheKevphil]

Thank You, Pete. As always, very interesting documentation. I really admire your commitment to research and your abiding humanity to your subjects.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks for your continued support. I've been immersing myself somewhat in the Filipino comic artists you suggested, but the internet doesn't reveal much about them as far as I can tell. Nevertheless I've enjoyed the work and if you have others you think might be of interest please sendthem along

[@TheKevphil]

@@petebeard Unfortunately, the Filipino _Komiks_ scene is a rather culturally insular society, with much of the historical background being in Tagalog only, and not translated into English. (How dare they!) ;) Also, it's my impression that, in addition to familial dynasties, certain names are especially common (similar to but not quite as prevalent as it is in Korea), making research difficult. On top of this, you have "schools" or styles associated with particular artists, meaning many individuals' work may look very similar. (Redondo is one prime example.) I *_can_* offer you some facebook groups which deal with Filipino comics in general and certain luminaries in particular. Honestly, this is mostly how I know them. Here's an article that sums up the "Filipino Invasion" of American comics in the 1970s: powerofcomics.com/filipino-artists/ And here are the *facebook* pages which, if nothing else, showcase some of the amazing art of these gentlemen somewhat better than a random Google search. (All of this you may well have already uncovered; my powers of research are pretty unremarkable. lol) The "Father of Filipino Komiks" Francisco Coching facebook.com/groups/franscovcoching My "hero," Nestor Redondo: facebook.com/groups/312291765534316 Alfredo Alcala: facebook.com/AlcalaArt Alex Nino: facebook.com/alex.nino.7161 Rudy Nebres: facebook.com/groups/1027569950627551 Filipino Komiks: facebook.com/groups/komiks.parin/ and facebook.com/groups/271677074917 This is the Golden Age of Filipino Komiks and the current state of the art is considerably less stellar (of course, in my opinion), though the work of *Leinil Francis Yu* is a notable exception.

[@dougg1075]

These videos are absolute treasures.

[@raffaeleacquaviva4521]

Everytime a great joy. Thanks Mr. Beard

[@petebeard]

Hello Raffaele and I'm glad you are continuing to watch and enjoy.

[@craigdixon7138]

Peter once again a tremendous array of forgotten talent Vernan grant reminds me of Satoshi Kitamura whose work is angular but soft ...thank you once again Sir xx

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and thanks for continuing to watch and enjoy the channel. I've never before heard of Satoshi Kitamura but will immediately check out his work. Thanks.

[@SmithMrCorona]

The Puck building still stands today. These days it's probably best recognized from exterior shots seen in the sitcom "Will & Grace". I believe New York University now owns it. On the ground floor is a sporting goods shop (REI). If you go to their lower level, you can still see the giant turbines that powered Puck's massive printing presses.

[@petebeard]

Hi Tony-all of this is news to me - Until I started doing these videos I'd never heard of Puck or Judge despite calling myself a cartoon illustrator. Astonishing pen workroom all their contributors. There are more from the same background on their way

[@petebeard]

that should be 'pen work from' - stupid predictive text

[@SmithMrCorona]

@@petebeard Looking forward to to those videos. As an aside, but related, I just finished "Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White" by Michael Tisserand. An excellent look into the cartoonist's life. Puck gets a mention, as does the Hearst cartoon empire of the day. I recommend you give it a read.

[@petebeard]

Thanks I'll check it out. I wasn't going to cover Herriman in the heroes series because I figured he was too well known. But a straw poll among younger illustrators (former students) reveals otherwise, so He's another on the to -do list.

[@johannsmithe2570]

File under for what its worth On a minor note Jared Kushner owns the Puck Building but, NYU owns the Benedick Building, 80 Washington Square East, a few blocks away where the Architect Stanford White, Augustus St. Guadens and other artists, illustrators such as Charles Dana Gibson, Frederic Remington, Winslow Homer formed the *Sewer Club*

[@combatgirl38]

Your efforts are always an elixir for the weary soul.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and many thanks for your elegantly put comment. Greatly appreciated.

[@n3bie]

Thank you again Pete! KZbin could disappear tomorrow and my only lasting regret would be the loss of your channel. You rock!

[@petebeard]

Hi and the usual thanks to you. That just may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me.

[@leestewart7558]

I have been watching your videos a bunch lately... I find them very inspirational, and informative. Great work Mr Peter.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your dedication to the channel. It's greatly appreciated.

[@leestewart7558]

@@petebeard you are welcome

[@debrahutson3966]

Amazing video as always Pete, I'll be waiting eagerly for the next :)

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot and I'm going to try - still plenty to go at

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

0:31 J.S Pughe

[@spinnettdesigns]

Thank you for another wonderful video! I noticed that I’m spending a lot of time watching your delightful videos 😅 it’s time I put pen to paper 👌

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very peased to hear you are becoming addicted to the channel. At least it's safer than a monocycle.

[@spinnettdesigns]

@@petebeard haha. If you only knew…I will be 60 this year, and can ride a unicycle! I love art and the 1890’s-1940’s really capture my imagination. I have such a wide variety of art that I like, but for what I’m able to produce, probably the 60’s are the “easiest”. I love Kandinsky and pop art too. When my friend and I were in about 4th grade in the early 70’s, we had a comic strip together. In the late 70’s my brother and I made a stop action super 8 film of the strip. Completely amateurish but still fun. Since then I’ve made many books for our son (in the early 90’s) but nothing of the caliber of the people that you show on your lovely films, though I wish that I could have. Most of my time is spent in volunteer work but I want to get back into my art. For this purpose, In the last 6 months or so I’ve been doing neurotrophic art and also Zentangle, which are very easy. That has been a good springboard for me to get my feet wet again to make some things that can get my artistic muscles flexed a bit. These videos of yours have been so interesting and encouraging for me to actually work on some art, and I thank you sincerely for all of your efforts to educate us plebes.

[@gregday5169]

Delightful Pete! Keep up the great work!

[@petebeard]

Hi there and thanks. I don't know about 'great' work but there's more to be done than I've done already and I'm not bored yet..

[@rachelbartlett1970]

Glorious

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot

[@enragedkaiser237]

Love your channel and the enormous amount of research you do for these videos

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks for your support. It's comments such as yours that keep me motivated to make more.

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

5:51 John Austen

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

2:41 Helen Dryden

[@greggoreo6738]

I am a well trained. Pavlov dog. When the intro music begins...with its intro drumming, piano and bass guitar "kah-thump"/ well, you had me with the first quarter note. And. Now. I'm a salivating mutt who just can't say "NO"! What other canine is still awake at one hour past midnight? Watching installments, lulled by Beard's hypnotic syllables? I need a cat nap, I tell you, although I do count myself One Lucky Dog. Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca

[@petebeard]

Where would we be without puns and wordplay? North Korea probably.

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

8:54 Erberto Carboni

[@roghaz1]

This series is great - tremendously informative! I only wish they had existed when I was an art student!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I don't know how recently you were a student but I would advise anybody nowadays to avoid university and learn online. Most 'professors' know very little and share even less.

[@roghaz1]

@@petebeard I studied in New York in the pre-KZbin era, when the only way to get information was from the few books available that collected illustrators' work. Thanks to the internet, there's now a wealth of invaluable information about the many great artists of the past, including your informative videos. I'll pass them on by posting links on social media.

[@johncollado1151]

Hi again, Pete. Enjoyed your video very much.... looking forward to the next.

[@petebeard]

And a big thank you from me. Its slow going but my numbers are going in the right direction.

[@johncollado1151]

@@petebeard Your content is very good, no problem there. Like I mentioned before, I've learned a lot watching your videos.

[@theinkpirate2710]

Once again another brilliantly done episode

[@petebeard]

...and thanks again for liking. Pughe certainly knew his way round inking.

[@CELTICFOXSTUDIO77777]

My thanks,as always to you, sir

[@petebeard]

Hello and mine too, for your continued interest and support

[@glynstimpson]

Great video thanks Pete

[@CarlosGarcia-xh2nt]

Great information.

[@rondakudrna2054]

Helen Dryden brilliantly re-invented herself (quite dramatically) so many times, I'm curious as to what would have happened to her in the end, that she would drop out of life like that(?) So sad too, after all her successes.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and sadly it's true that there are quite a few of the illustrators I've covered who either faded away to obscurity or in some cases just ended it all. Creativity and success are fragile commodities.

[@gabriellew6467]

Five artists, five extraordinary talents - all but disappeared. If it were not for your continued efforts to bring them back to be appreciated and admired, they’d largely be languishing unnoticed. I feel it is a bit unfair to brush over someone who paints/draws “in the style of” (in this case Beardsley) - when there is a prevalent style, artists tend to mostly stay within certain confines. The quattrocento being a case in point. Just an observation. Each of the artists featured was once more a delightful revelation and I thank you for the introduction

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your comment, and one of the primary reasons I started the unsung heroes series was to attempt to create greater respect for those who did get rather swept aside by omniscient critics for being similar to far better known idols.

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@theworldwidehistoryofhisto2868]

You should make a video on Henry Pitz. He was a Philadelphia born artist and illustrator. I discovered him in a book called Great Moments in Freedom.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks for the info about Henry Pitz. It doesn't seem to matter how thorough my research is there are still many who are not on the radar, and this is a case in point. He's officially added to the list and thanks very much for pointing me at him.

[@johannsmithe2570]

*Thanks* for another informative and fun presentation 1:38 How many are Art Majors?

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your ongoing interest in the channel. If you mean how many of these illustrators went to university to study art the answer would be none. I reckon about half did go to art school but about the same number were self taught or learned from somebody more established. I went to art school and for my sins later taught illustration at a university. Art school was a considerably better mode of study.

[@petebeard]

PS If you look closely the man is mounted on the beast - but not in a carnal manner. Perched a bit high up I reckon.

[@johannsmithe2570]

@@petebeard Hello Pete, my flippant comment regarding the graduates in the illustration doing manual labor was an off the wall reference to the massive student debt they accumulated only to work in another field. Seems like some things never change by the date of the illustration. My sin was Architecture. Ps. Its the beast's contented smile that is disconcerting.

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

11:19 Vernon Grant

[@seandarbe2521]

Maybe Grant was working for advertising and publishing in California and hadn't gone national in popularity yet?

[@petebeard]

Hello and that;s possible of course. It's always frustrating when pictures aren't forthcoming.

[@michaels7889]

I shall continue to enjoy your videos Pete but will not make comments in future because I am getting suspicious contacts via KZbin.

[@petebeard]

Hello and from the sound of it goodbye too. I totally understand - I've had a couple of strange messages from strange sources, and I can see a time in the not too distant future when I'll reluctantly be disabling comments. Such is life.

[@JackHoward96]

Pete, do you like Alan Odle?

[@petebeard]

Hi and the broad answer is yes I do and he'll be featuring somewhere along the line. I thought I might do a special on eccentric illustrators with Odle, Sidney Sime and others. Either way he's going to be included. But don't hold your breath - he's among hundreds in the pipeline.

[@JackHoward96]

pete beard Cool man, I’d love to just see that list of hundreds.

[@orsino88]

Carboni, not Gruau.

[@petebeard]

That's a definite cockup on my part -and they're in the wrong order too -thanks for spotting the error and I'll fix it.