Monday, January 28, 2019

All-Time All-American Team

I freakin' hate competitive team sports, but this gorgeously illustrated article by Bob McCartney (cover too!) featured in the April 1957 issue of From Here to Insanity Vol.3 #1 is just way too cute and hysterical to pass on. Saucy seductive McCartney Girls passin' the 'ol pigskin around on the playin' field and living to shower about it another day-- why, I do believe that is MY kind of football! The faux ad at the very end is also quite a sexy hoot!













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9 comments:

  1. Mr. CavinJanuary 28, 2019

    Whoa, that cover is a jaw dropper! And I find if a lot of fun to pick apart the CrafTint DuoTone technique used in the interior art, too. This guy's half Davis / half Ward kind of look really works well with the mechanical crosshatching, and he's pretty darn good at it. Actually, I guess that makes him half (John) Severin, too. Three halves!

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  2. JMR777January 29, 2019

    I liked this, including the ad for Femsdick of Hollywood.
    The model wearing the Grant's Tomb fashion #1313 looks like she would be a reader THOIA. Any guesses as to her identity?

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  3. Sam HendersonJanuary 29, 2019

    McCartney IS Bill Ward. He signed that name to his work sometimes, though I don't know exactly why.

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  4. Mr. KarswellJanuary 30, 2019

    Never understood that either, Sam... I have more Ward in my archives from way back 2010 and ‘12 if you missed it, here:

    https://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/2010/09/mccartney-girls-and-gags.html?m=0

    https://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/2012/05/showgirls.html?m=0

    Thanks for the comments everyone!

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  5. Mr. KarswellJanuary 30, 2019

    >#1313 looks like she would be a reader THOIA

    HAHAHA

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  6. Mr. KarswellJanuary 30, 2019

    So Davis + Wood + Severin = Bill Ward

    Everything adds up to me! :)

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  7. Mr. CavinJanuary 30, 2019

    I'll be darned. I had no idea.

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  8. JMR777January 30, 2019

    Some cartoonists used pseudonyms to avoid conflict with publishers while making some extra money on the side. Maybe Bill Ward did the same. Pete Morisi signed his work PAM so he wouldn't get in trouble with his boss, who was not a publisher but the NYPD.

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  9. Craftypants CarolFebruary 11, 2019

    Boobs. That's all I have to say

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