Vintage Cartoon Commercial - Dandy Drawings and a Jaunty Jingle!

Check out this fantastic little cartoon commercial from 1958!
(just click on the player below)

They sure knew how to make cool cartoon commercials back then!

I happened upon this little gem while looking for old Fleischer cartoons...I hope you like it as much as I did ---

The jingle is quite catchy!

What a great idea -- Hey, Mabel!
A great idea -- Black Label!
Nothin's too good for good company...
Carling's Black Label Beer

I had to play the video a whole buncha times to get the screengrabs I posted, but each time I heard the song, it got under my skin a little bit more. I'm sure I'll be whistling the darn tune for hours if not days.

Cute little story, product is nicely and prominently featured...it's a winner!

If anybody knows who made this cartoon, let us know in the comments below ^_^

Crime & Romance Comics COLLIDE in "Jailbird's Romance!" ACG Comics' My Romantic Adventures 1954 Comics Scans

Two of my favorite comics genres are crime comics and romance comics...and THIS comic book, My Romantic Adventures, mixes those two genres together like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup!

Hey! You got your crime comic all over my romance comic! Mmmm!

Take a look at these teaser panels or you can find the full page comic book scans below those...

"Love...and a she-con! Funny, Isn't it?"

Enjoy the solid artwork by the always reliable Ogden Whitney.

Who do you think you're up against -- a Campfire Girl? Angel Morelli keeps her mouth shut!

The full page scans from this lurid romantic crime comic are below! Just click on any one of the small pages to open up the full comic book scan in a new window. But buckle in before you start reading because this story is hardcore! Enjoy!

Click on any page to see the BIG high-res comics scan

 

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Click on any page to see LARGE high-res comics scan

Ouch! They don't make 'em like THAT anymore!

Golden Age Comic Book Scans @ Golden Reading Blog

It's always a pleasure to find another blog with obscure golden age comic book scans! Today I ran across the "Golden Reading" comics blog hosted by Misty Blogger. Lotsa fun and out-there old comics scans to read and download! Click on the Lil Eight Ball panel to jump right over to the Golden Reading comics blog.

Sweet Sci-Fi Kirby Feast over at Pappy's

Lots of amazing Jack Kirby comics scans to swim thru over at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine! I love these science fiction comics from titles like Race for the Moon and Blast Off! from Harvey Comics in the mid-sixties.

Just click on the cool sci-fi artwork to be instantly transported to a comics reading room of the future! Thanks, Pappy!

The Hungry Goat -- Dan Gordon's Great Manic Popeye Cartoon (Famous Studios, 1943)

 ACG Comics images © Roger Broughton 2009

While I was doing research for an upcoming Comics Journal article about cartoonist Dan Gordon, I made a point to see as many of his classic animated cartoons as I could. Dan Gordon directed many cartoons for Fleischer, and then went on to be one of the main guys at Famous Studios after Paramount sent the Fleischer brothers packing.



Watch The Hungry Goat
Anyway, Mike Kazaleh gave me a heads-up that Dan Gordon's Popeye cartoons were really something special. After seeing them, I agree that they stand out as being more manic and frenzied than the other "Famous Studios" Popeye shorts. They tend not to feature Bluto and Olive Oyl and Swee Pea, but rather show Popeye battling his nephews, a suicidal sailor, and in this case, a very Hungry Goat.

Watch The Hungry Goat

Please don't read on until you watch the cartoon above...I don't wanna spoil it for you!

A LOT of Dan Gordon's Famous Popeye cartoons have a character contemplating suicide...in this one The Hungry Goat comes right out and SAYS "suicide" right after failing at offing himself!

The thing that really stands out for me is that Popeye is the BAD GUY in this cartoon...and Popeye doesn't even show up until two and a half minutes in! The cartoon opens with the hungry goat, and goes from sympathetic to completely manic in only a few short moments. By the middle of the cartoon I realized I was rooting for the goat!

Watch The Hungry Goat

This is my favorite line: At 3:19, in the middle of scarfing down a gigantic anchor chain, The Hungry Goat gleefully stops and looks at the audience and asks,"I'm normal...ain't I ?" Reminds me of those moments in Clampett cartoons when somebody stops and says, "I'm only three seconds old!"

Also---no spinach in this one. It could just as easily be Bluto or any other comic foil in the role that Popeye's playing. I'm guessing that Dan Gordon just wanted to make this cartoon and found the Popeye series to be an opportune place to put it.

Click Cover for BIG Scan

Dan Gordon's got a thing for goats. The image at the top of the post is a close-up of a cover that Dan Gordon drew for Ha-Ha Comics #54 in 1948 -- just a few years after this cartoon was made. Also, one of Dan Gordon's early Terrytoons cartoons, "Pink Elephants" starred a hungry goat. You can watch "Pink Elephants" at this page at the Asifa Hollywood Animation Archive.

The Hungry Goat is just one heckuva fun cartoon! The voices, the music, the timing are all crazily amped-up animated insanity. Watch it and enjoy!

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