The Origin of a Species: Eustace Tilley

Life, July 8, 1915

advertisement art by Paul Goold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The New Yorker, February 21, 1925

cover art by Rea Irvin who also contributed to Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further Reading and Viewing

The Comics Journal: The True History of Eustace Tilley
The New Yorker: The many faces of Eustace Tilley; 

Barry Blitt’s “Origin Story” 

Alfred d’Orsay, the model for Eustace Tilley

 

(Next post on Monday: The New Yorker Advertisements)

Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Quote credited to Ernest Benn (Sir John Pickstone Benn)

Life
August 8, 1912
see bottom right-hand corner of page 1562

Rockford Register-Gazette
(Illinois)
August 15, 1912
page 8, column 2: Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.—Life.

San Francisco Chronicle
(California)
April 8, 1917
Cartoonagrams by Charles A. Ogden
Second tier, first panel: Behold a chick getting it’s first liberty. Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. 

Further Reading
The Big Apple


(Next post on Monday: Vivian Berg)

Lettering: Life Drawings

Illustrations from Life magazine

December 7, 1905

August 3, 1911

July 1, 1915

July 22, 1915

August 5, 1915

August 12, 1915

August 19, 1915

August 26, 1915

September 2, 1915

September 9, 1915

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Lettering: Psychedelic Poster Postcards

Postcard versions of the posters

Jim Blashfield

Rick Griffin (right)

Wes Wilson

Wes Wilson

Wes Wilson

Wes Wilson

B. MacLean

B. MacLean (right)

R. Tuten (Left)

Lee Conklin

Lee Conklin

Lee Conklin (left), R. Tuten (right)

D. Broad & Randy (left), Nicholas Kouninos (right)

Irons (left), Lee Conklin (right)

Stanley Mouse (left), Irons (right)

B. MacLean (right)

David Singer (left), Patrick Lofthouse (right)

Lee Conklin (bottom)

On the left is a ticket

R. Tuten (left)

Life, September 1, 1967

“The Great Poster Wave”

photographs of Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin,

Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse and Peter Max

Psychedelic Solution

Business Card

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Lettering: IF

Life

September 6, 1907

“IF: The Grave of Our Dreams”

Illustration by Art Young

(link to the preceding page)

The drawing is mentioned in

Art Young: His Life and Times.

Life volume includes Young illustrations from

August 22, October 17, and November 14.

Young’s profile, photograph and original art

The Inland Printer
September 1909

Caricature
8th Edition, 1911

The Judge
December 25, 1915

Selling Arts
January 1932

Frontline Combat
#5, March/April 1952
EC Comics
Story and art by Harvey Kurtzman


if
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(Updated January 2, 2017; tomorrow: The Jack Kirby Museum Pop-Up)