Time for another silly old gag gift novelty box! And if we're looking at the Velasquez illustration on the box lid and answering the posed question: "What every girl wants", I'd assume this curvy young lass would like some normal lady feet! But nope, we open the lid and inside we instead find a couple of cute minks in heat getting down to some serious business --the making of more minks business, that is! And while we wait for the pitter-patter of lil baby mink feet, someone please give that lady some normal lady feet!
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What is going on with those feet? I get stylistic small feet, for instance, we got them in the lash lightning story on lightning girl but these ... they don't even seem like feet. One wonders if the original illustration had to be fixed? Or something didn't get printed?
I love the box -- that's a great men's magazine type imagine with the extreme figure, and I love the shading on the mink, and the expression is great. A really nice piece of cartooning.
I was thinking maybe there was likely feet originally, but they’re just faded the way the word “wants” on the lid is faded— but I can’t even see where it would’ve passed over to print it.
It looks like the artist spent most of their time and skill drawing the face and figure with feet and shoes as an afterthought. The reason for the uncanny valley type feet-
1. The artist might have lacked the skill to draw normal looking feet or shoes. Certain things are beyond some artists skillset. Maybe drawing feet/shoes was their Kryptonite or, Achilles Heel.
2. After the artist was almost done with the drawing they found out he or she was not going to be paid for their work or the pay was only a pittance, so the artist figured 'lousy pay lousy drawing, serves you cheapskates right'.
3. Maybe it was the end of the day so the artist rushed the job to catch the train home, figuring they would touch up the pic the next day, only to find the publisher used the pic before they could improve the image.
Uncanny Valley feet/shoes or not, it is still a neat pic from a more simpler time.
I love the feet. To me it reads like the they have been rendered at itty-bitty little pins--maybe extreme, but definitely one characteristic of comics styling at the time--entirely dominated by the big bows on her fancy shoes. It doesn't look weird at all to me, just funny. It's interesting how it took everyone's attention. I'll bet in the comic vernacular of the times this was printed it wasn't as universally noted or remarked upon.
But those skunks passing as minks probably raised an eyebrow or two.
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