How about some holiday highlights from a fun little midcentury Illinois Power Company freebie booklet called "A Treasury of Christmas Ideas!" Loaded with dozens of easy-does-it helps 'n ho-ho-ho's concerning food, decor, gift magic, and even picking out that perfect xmas tree! Plus, if you're clueless about how to thaw out that giant xmas turkey, well, we got ya covered there too! Actually, you'll have to figure out most of this stuff on your own, because aside from a few examples below, I really mostly just wanted to share the cute key art imagery and lettering from the various chapters. Oh well, you can't always get what you want, --even around xmas time.
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I know this is weirdly myopic, but I really love that screen pattern in the background of the front and back covers. I wonder if that was as Ben Day screen or just some quick work cutting grooves into a linoleum block? Either way, super cool looking.
I also always dig the rough-edged grease-pencil-on-lithograph-stone look of the accent lines in the cartooning here and there. My favorite example is that Dandy Candy cherub, but Santa's chef hat on the cover is also pretty fine.
So "cooky" is a proper ... but older ... spelling of "cookie." Yes, I had to look that up.
In the turkey cutting picture, the kid on the left looks like Matt Smith's Doctor Who!
One thing I love about these books is the weird collection of art that on first glance seems to be the same but it isn't. We have a pastel kid on Dandy Candy, we have a picture of a girl, a more realistic drawn woman, a more cartoon-y woman, a kind of dotted Santa. It's all over the place but because of the coloring and the layout it all *fits*.
That's really neat!
It is a shame almost no one offers freebee booklets anymore, nowadays something like this would be offered as an app.
The art is a nice mix of advertisement type illustrations, photos and comic strip art, just perfect for a booklet like this.
Thanks for this early Christmas gift of a post.
Awww this is so awesome! The illustrations are all fab and the swirly fonts are so neat. And I love the starbursts. The photo image on the gift wrapping page is oddly out of place among all the rosey cheeked cartoon people though
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