Fleischer Promo Art #9: “Popeye Today!”
Crowds are the stock in trade in this lovely batch, the fighting panel of August 28th, foreshadowing 1936’s Brotherly Love. It’s a sure sign of classic Popeye art when little…
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Fleischer Promo Art #8: “Boop Power!”
This week we cover May and June 1935 – with more rarely seen Fleischer promotional art from the pages of Paramount Sales News. By now, Betty was in long skirts…
Fleischer Promo Art #7: “Popeye Power!”
This next installment of 1935 Paramount Sales News cartoons features some nice “color” renderings of Popeye and Betty. There’s one of those beautiful cartoony horses that Mike Barrier despises in…
Fleischer Promo Art #6: “Betty Boop Knows the Trick!”
Welcome to 1935… As Popeye points out in January 2’s panel, the public is still laffin’ at the 1934 pictures, and the hilarity would build even further. Interestingly, even though…
Fleischer Promo Art #5: “Popeye and Betty, Box Office Champs”
Here we are, the fifth and final installment of 1934’s Paramount Sales News cartoons by Hal Seeger. The sun has set on Betty Boop while the Popeyes are increasingly excellent….
Fleischer Promo Art #4: “Betty Boop’s Box-Office Farm”
Starting in July 1934, all films had to pass under the Motion Picture Production Code, and that is usually blamed for destroying the Betty Boop series (the garter seen here…
Fleischer Promo Art #3: “Popeye Sez!”
Welcome to week three of Paramount Sales News. Either the first June 1934 issue was missing, or they didn’t print one this week, but we’ve got another fine assortment of…
Fleischer Promo Art #2: “Sell Betty Boop Cartoons!”
Here we are at the #2 installment of the Paramount Sales News cartoons. Hal Seeger gives us one offering a week beginning at the end of March 1934. Excuse the…
Fleischer Promo Art from Paramount Sales News (#1)
Editor’s Note: Today starts a new series of weekly posts that are sure to excite long time readers of this blog and fans of Fleischer and Famous Studios in particular….
“Stuffy Durma” animated by Jim Tyer
The animation scene in New York City during the early 1960s were either feast or famine, depending on your point of view – and your talents as an animator. Terrytoons…
