Showing posts with label advertisements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertisements. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Kevin Pope, formerly of Express ads

When the free Express paper started years ago, Juniper ran ads by cartoonist Kevin Pope. There were probably about 10 different full page ones before the campaign stopped in the paper. However, it continued online, until now. See "Juniper Kills the Cartoons!" Craig Matsumoto, West Coast Editor, Light Reading, FEBRUARY 24, 2009 and "Juniper's Cartoonist Isn't Bitter," Craig Matsumoto, West Coast Editor, Light Reading, FEBRUARY 27, 2009.

Unfortunately, the company also took the cartoons off their website, depriving us of an opportunity to play catchup.

Friday, February 13, 2009

OT: Cartoonists ads from Playboy continued

Price - Chival Regal ad - Playboy8103
New Yorker cartoonist George Price ad for Chival Regal scotch in Playboy, March 1981. What a wonderful wacky line he has!

Sorel - ACLU Moral Majority - Playboy 8103
Edward Sorel art for an ACLU ad against the Moral Majority in Playboy, March 1981. Oooh, Sorel can be hard-hitting.

Roth's Buckley - Playboy 8103
Arnold Roth caricature of William Buckley in letters section, Playboy, March 1981. Roth just had a lovely color illo in a recent New Yorker issue.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

OT: Cartoonists ads from Playboy

Davis - ad Dexter shoe Playboy8012
Jack Davis Dexter shoe ad in Playboy, Dec. 1980. Around this time, Davis seemed to be everywhere. He regularly covered TV Guide, drew a postage stamp, did posters for the American Cancer Society... hard to believe this is almost 30 years ago.

Saxon - GE ad - Playboy8012

Cassette recorder? What's that? Charles Saxon gag cartoon ad in Playboy, Dec. 1980. Saxon's best known for his New Yorker work.

Monday, January 05, 2009

New York Times on Spirit movie posters

This is buried on the Times' website, but it's pretty interesting - "Inside the Layers of a Print Campaign," New York Times.com December 25 2008 - the poster campaign is discussed while alongside the posters themselves load. The last poster shown made it into comic book stores, or at least Big Planet, but I didn't get any of the earlier ones. Hint, hint.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Spirit movie advertisements showing up in comic stores

Spirit movie ads

Some of the advertising material for the Spirit movie that was distributed to comic book shops. That's a temporary lipstick tattoo, a set of 4 trading cards of the women in the movie and the box they're in, and a glow-in-the-dark sneaker print sticker. Big Planet Comics Bethesda has a pile of movie posters that they're giving away. I've also seen a keychain with recordings from the movie on it.

Variety didn't like the movie very much (tip from Mr. Media Bob Andelman).

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Comic advertisements - a few old snapshots

Here's some more advertisements using comics motifs.

Dick Tracy Franklin Bookman standup - Crown Books 199803
Dick Tracy advertisement for Franklin Bookman standup - Crown Books March 1998.

Spider-Man - Hardees 199905
Spider-Man advertisement - Hardees May 1999 (in Kentucky, I think).

Thing - Dodge Caravan ad - NJ Turnpike 199909
Thing from Fantastic Four - Dodge Caravan advertisement - NJ Turnpike September 1999.

Spider-Man - Got Milk Metrobus 199908
Spider-Man - Got Milk Metrobus advertisement, August 1999, Washington, DC.

Disneyland ashtray 2
Disneyland ashtray.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Advertisements using comics motifs

These would more properly go on my friend The Ephemerist's blog, but I'll stick them up here. A request for advertisements showing comics influences to use in teaching went up on the comix-scholars list recently. I tend to have a lot of clippings files on comics, and this was one that I could help with. Here's what I scanned for the request - a lot of these date from the 1990s because I was much better about getting things filed when I had no children and wasn't writing about comics.

comics ad - Wash Flyer 08-05
Watson Wyatt superhero motif ad, Washington Flyer magazine, May 1998.

comics ad - Superchecking Wash Post 96-09-29
1st National Bank of Maryland's Superchecking ad was obviously influenced by the Superman logo. Washington Post, September 29, 1996.

comics ad - Paramus Honda - Bergen Record 96-11-29
Paramus Honda ran a series of ads with a continuing comic strip in the Bergen [County, NJ] Record. This one is from November 29, 1996.

comics ad - Norton Utilities - Govt Computer News 95-09-04
Norton Utilities compared themselves to superheroes in this ad from Government Computer News, September 4, 1995.

comics ad - AOL Mailer
AOL's cd mailer went for the superhero ad motif.

comics ad - Commander in Chief - NYT 05-09-10
The "Commander in Chief" tv show ran several gag cartoon ads in both the Washington Post and the New York Times. This one is from the Times, September 14, 2005.

comics ad - Inova Hospital for Children - Wash Post 96-10-26
"Superhero Action Figures - They Really Exist" from Inova Hospital for Children, Washington Post, October 26, 1996.

comics ad - Mercury Tracer - Ent Week 96-09-06
Neal Adams' Continuity Associates Studio undoubtedly did this series of ads for the Mercury Tracer car that ran in magazines in 1996. This one is from Entertainment Weekly, September 6, 1996.

comics ad - Mercury Tracer

comics ad - 1st TN bank - Cookeville Herald Citizen 94-09-11
The 1st Tennessee Bank used a superhero comic strip ad, Cookeville Herald-Citizen, September 11, 1994.

comics ad - Kings Dominion - Wash Post 95-06-25
Paramount's Kings Dominion amusement park and MTV teamed up in this ad, Washington Post, June 25, 1995.

comics ad - Wash Post 98-01-17
An ad, probably done inhouse by an amateur cartoonist, for Fitzgerald Auto Malls, Washington Post January 17, 1997.

comics ad - Perry Ellis NYT06-02-06
Perry Ellis ad, New York Times, February 6, 2006. These panels were from a longer storyline.

comics ad - Perry Ellis NYT06-06-06
Perry Ellis ad, New York Times, June 6, 2006.

comics ad - Perry Ellis NYT06-06-30
Perry Ellis ad, New York Times, June 30, 2006.

comics ad - Balvenie - Wash Post 06-03-28
Balvenie whiskey ad, Washington Post March 28, 2006. These ran longer in the NY Times than the Post, and an earlier series is available on their website. A lot of these were about holidays.

comics ad - Balvenie - NYT 06-05-13
Balvenie whiskey ad, New York Times May 13, 2006.

comics ad - Balvenie - NYT 06-10-06
Balvenie whiskey ad, New York Times October 6, 2006.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Seth MacFarlane's new animation for Burger King

A few days ago, I linked to a NYTimes article about Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy project. A rep from Burger King's ad agency wrote in to say that while "Exclusive Cavalcade content will be presented by BK on youtube.com/bk beginning September 10" there's a sneak peak up now. Which actually looks rather dementedly amusing. Plus she said nice things about the blog...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Naval Academy to recruit via comic books

See the story about the The U.S. Naval Academy's coming comic book at "Academy aims to appeal to minorities: Superintendent unveils tailored recruiting tools," By Stephen Kiehl, Baltimore Sun reporter, August 22, 2008. And here I thought comics weren't for kids anymore.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Bush political cartoon ad


The NRDC Action Fund paid for a full-page caricature/political cartoon ad in today's Washington Post showing George W bush as a snake-oil salesman. It's a lovely piece and they've put a pdf online - I can't recall anything similar since Pat Oliphant did a series of full page ads about airlines at least a decade ago.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Echos of comics past


Another ad from the bottom of the Examiner brings to mind... Anyone? You in the back?

How about John Held, Jr's cartoons?

Monday, July 07, 2008

Washington realtors have a new hero


The real estate multiple listing service, Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc., of Washington launched its own DC-based web superhero.

For details, see "Introducing 'Mr. Is,' an MLS superhero; Comic strip promotes Web site relaunch," Inman News, Thursday, June 26, 2008.

To read the strip Mr. Is, click here. He's even got a backstory!

Thursday, July 03, 2008

In today's papers

Zadzooks reviews Frank Miller's Batman - "Batman becomes too brutal," by Joseph Szadkowski, Washington Times Thursday, July 3, 2008.

Online only, the Express rails against animated bears selling toilet paper - "Tissue Issue: The Charmin Bears Have Got to Go," by Greg Barber, ReadExpress.com July 2, 2008.

Also online only is an interview with Robert Grossman - "Grossman Land," By Steven Heller, New York Times' Campaign Stops blog July 2, 2008.

Monday, June 02, 2008

New York Times Book Review on Comics

In "Comics," By JOHN HODGMAN, New York Times Book Review June 1, 2008, Hodgeman looks at Kirby and Evanier's new biography of him, Shanower's Age of Bronze and Y the Last Man.

In today's Times, Garfield Minus Garfield is again featured, this time in "Is the Main Character Missing? Maybe Not," By CATE DOTY, New York Times June 2, 2008.

Also in Business, M. Night Shyamalan said "He wanted to market “Unbreakable” as a comic-book movie — the tale of an unlikely superhero — but Disney executives insisted on portraying it as a spooky thriller, like “The Sixth Sense.”" For more of the story, see "Shyamalan’s Hollywood Horror Story, With Twist," By ALLISON HOPE WEINER.

Finally, tomorrow's paper features the return of the animated clay character Mr. Bill. See "Mr. Bill Returns (in One Piece) to Pitch a Debit Card," By WENDY A. LEE, New York Times June 3, 2008.

Friday, April 04, 2008

Comics action in Cosmo 1957

Day ad Cosmo1957-04
Robert Day ad for Bell Telephone from Cosmopolitan, April 1957, in which they kindly define 'ubiquitous' for the reader.

Boy, public telephones certainly aren't 'ubiquitous' now, are they? In fact, this ad is incomprehensible to anyone under 20, isn't it?

Florida cartoonists1 - Cosmo1957-04
Florida Cartoonists Poke Fun at Their State, p. 1, Cosmopolitan, April 1957. Featuring Lowell Hoppes and Charles E. Sharman.

Florida cartoonists2 - Cosmo1957-04
Florida Cartoonists Poke Fun at Their State, p. 2, Cosmopolitan, April 1957. Featuring Martin Filchock and Bandell Linn.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

A comic strip?

Brian, a friend at work saw this in an antique store in New Orleans and took this picture for me.

After mulling it over for a week and talking to two other historians of medicine who write on comics, I called up and ordered it. I haven't printed it yet, but flopping and inverting the picture lets you see it:


So it's a printing block for a fundraising ad campaign for the March of Dimes to conquer polio. Pretty neat especially the iron lung in the center. I'm going to try to ink it and print it, and we'll see what results I get. Perhaps we can make prints as write-in prizes!

Saturday, February 02, 2008

SHOC: Ads from Liberty Magazine

A few scans of Liberty Magazine wandered my way lately, so I pulled some comics material out of them. First we have 3 comic strip ads of Ol' Judge Robbins for Prince Albert tobacco. The artist changes, but I can't tell who any of them are.

Liberty Magazine November 11, 1936

Liberty Magazine October 2, 1937

Liberty Magazine June 10, 1939. This issue has an unfortunate editorial about how there will be no war in Europe in 1939. Whoops.

This ad agency obviously thought Ripley had a good idea, so why not borrow it?
Liberty Magazine November 14, 1936

And this ad is the one that made me decide to put these up for the Secret History of Comics - Fontaine Fox's long-running Toonerville Folks / Trolley (1911-1955) advertising laxatives.
Liberty Magazine, Jun 10, 1939