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| "Er, I've changed my mind. I'll take the first ones you showed me!" |
"Seek and you shall find" is a very old saying from centuries ago. It also happens to be a very true saying, because I sought and found the four illustrations which I lay before you now. I drew them either in 1983 or '84 for an equestrian publication of some kind. The person who commissioned my services was someone for whom I drew newspaper ads to publicise his SONY hi-fi business, and he asked me to produce the illos for some mag or programme pertaining to a horse-riding event he was sponsoring or involved with in some way. I didn't care - dosh is dosh after all.
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| "I said you should have bought the hay from Cameron's!" |
The inking is a bit heavy, but I was experimenting with different styles at the time. It would've been nice to have seen the published result, but I never did - so I've no idea what size they were printed or whether they were effective as ads once they were incorporated into whatever body of text accompanied them.
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| "Looks like he wants his oats again - better nip 'round to Somerville's!" |
Still, despite their faults, they're not too bad for a young cartoonist yet finding his way in the world and who'd soon be freelancing for what was then the largest publishing company on the planet. So, altogether now, let's hear you at the back - "Oh, they can't take that away from me..." Nosirree!
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| "Look, is this going to take long?" |
I'll post any more as I find them. Stay tuned.
4 comments:
Those are certainly funny!
Thanks, glad you like 'em.
I did some 'get well soon' cards for injured jockeys when I was about nine for a family that owned racehorses. Looking back I should have drawn cards for the horses the jockeys had doubtless whipped the crap out of instead, but I didn't know any better.
It always bothered me about horses being shot after accidents at racecourses - I'd have shot the jockeys instead.
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