New Characters: Max Fleischer Promo Art #25
What’s interesting about this batch (and last week’s) is that these are 1938 clippings promoting cartoons from 1937. Maybe they’re making up for the downtime during the strike? Note that…
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Popeye and Betty Boop Only: Max Fleischer Promo Art #24
Bit of a downer after last week’s variety… Back to Popeye and Betty only. But we’ll be seeing more Fleischer faces in weeks to come. The May 4, 1938 installment…
The Shape of Things To Come: Max Fleischer Promo Art #23
Fleischer Studios was entering an important transitional phase and the Paramount Sales News cartoons actually advertised it. Most noteworthy is the April 6th panel (above) showing a model of “the…
Max Fleischer Promo Art #22
Bigger than MacMurray, Lombard, and Bing? The ads seem to think so. I love that the marketing people promoted the idea that Popeye and Betty had the same star power…
“Betty Boop at 16” Fleischer Promo Art #21
Continuing my postings of these rare Fleischer Studio promotional illustrations – this time from the November and December 1937 issues of in-house trade publication Paramount Sales News. As the panels…
“Tha’s A Fack!” Fleischer Promo Art #20
This week we look at the seven pieces of Fleischer promotional art that appeared in Paramount Sales News from May through Oct. 1937. Only seven? For the first time since…
Cooking With Boop! Fleischer Promo Art #19
“Some of the cartoons below may reflect the period in which they were made, when racial stereotypes and prejudices were commonplace. These were wrong then and wrong now, and do…
Fleischer Promo Art #18: “At Their Peak!”
Jan.-Feb. 1937 This week we have a bit of sidebar from animation director Bob Jaques. He has noticed a dip in the quality of the Popeye promo art that I’ve…
Fleischer Promo Art #17: “Ko-Ko, Wiffle Piffle and Adolph Zukor!”
The “Any Language” theme continues. Now you can see not just one, but two Olive Oyl navels, and Pudgy makes his debut in Paramount Sales News, finally reflecting what’s actually…
Fleischer Promo Art #16: “Betty Slays ‘Em!”
Did Paramount Sales News get sent to exhibitors around the globe, I wonder? Paramount had its international news trade, but I suspect even these crossed the border regularly, since Fleischer…
