Paramount Sales News #34: More Friggin’ Gabby
Tired of Gabby? Too bad! Perhaps the ever-optimistic Gabby became an atheist after his prayers went nowhere and his “fan mail” were really death threats. (Or maybe because he’s the…
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Paramount Sales News #33: Max Gets Gabby
There’s something rather unsettling about Gabby advertised as a laugh provoker equal to Popeye. And there’s something downright disturbing about Gabby’s face plastered over the globe (solve Sept. 18’s puzzle)….
Paramount Sales News #32: Popeye Fills Space
Back to the bread-and-butter, the Popeye series, in this one-eyed sailor batch. I think most readers will agree that Popeye began to lose his sheen once the Fleischer studio was…
Entering The Stone Age: Fleischer Promo Art #29
Here’s a rather meaty post for you this round. We’re firmly in the Miami era of the Fleischer Studio, the period when the short cartoons arguably lost their sheen. But…
Fleischer Promo Art #28
Interestingly, Paramount Sales News has been getting a bit behind on the latest Fleischer cartoons by not just months but years. Lost and Foundry was arguably one of the bigger…
On With The New! Fleischer Promo Art #27
Upon closer inspection, these Paramount Sales News publicity drawings are not exactly the same art as the images prepared for the one-sheet posters for the Fleischer cartoons themselves. While the…
Max Fleischer Promo Art #26
The original artwork for these Paramount Sales News cartoons is probably next to nonexistent, but thanks to Bob Jaques (who else?), we know that at least the artwork for Sept….
Even Cartoon Characters Have To Pay The Bills
If your favorite cartoon character told you to buy something, you’d buy it, wouldn’t you? Of course you would. That’s why cartoon characters make such wonderful pitchmen. I mean, if…
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…
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…
