KOMIC KAVALCADE OF KONTINUING KARICATURES...

Here we are again with some more artwork from the forgotten files of yours truly.  As you can see, the above caricature comes from 1997, and is a scan of a colour photocopy of the original coloured acrylic inks version.  Below is another scan of a photocopy of the original black and white pen drawing.  

The scan below is of a laser copy of the original pencil drawing, which had a slightly softer look to it.  I enhanced the scan to make the detail clearer, but it gains in some ways and loses in others.

Below is the subject of the first picture, a couple of years later with a different hairstyle.  Who knows, maybe she'll be on The ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in fifty years, being told the originals are worth a fortune?  (Excuse me, it's time for my medicine - I'm hallucinating again.)

Tune in again in the near future to see what other items of interest might be on display.

TOYBOX TREASURES Of The PAST: FRED FLINTSTONE'S FABULOUS FAMILY FLIVVER...

Here's yet another superb classic collectable plaything from the early days of my cherubic-faced childhood.  I was about three or four when I first got my original one, but it will doubtless come as no surprise to you when I say that, once again, I've had the above replacement for more years than I ever had its predecessor - even though it sure doesn't feel like it.  Anyway, what you're looking at is a FLINTSTONE FLIVVER, produced by MARX TOYS in the early 1960s.

There were at least a couple of versions of this titanically terrific toy: friction-drive and battery-operated.  (The batteries didn't go in the car, but in a 'remote control' unit attached by a cord.  No infra-red gizmos in those days.)  The photos I've seen of the latter version had a different FRED figure, made of tin, in the driving seat, but I daresay it's possible that some had the same plastic figure as the friction-drive version in the photo above.  Also, the battery one had 'Flintstone Flivver' printed along each side of the car, whereas the friction one usually didn't - though I believe I've seen photos of ones that did.

In an effort to bring you the best of both worlds, I've graciously bestowed upon you photos of the friction-drive Flivver, and the box for its battery-operated counterpart.  Also pictured (below) is someone else's flivver and its original box.  I sure hope you appreciate my unselfish generosity to you.  Once again, this is a highly desirable collectable, and could easily set you back a couple of hundred pounds for a pristine condition model - if you could ever find one that is.

Now tell me - do I spoil you, or what?    

KID ROBSON'S KARTOONS, KARICATURES & KOMIC STRIPS...

Don't worry about the title - I know how to spell.  Looking through my files recently, I found a few pieces of art - finished and unfinished - from several years back.  The first is this double caricature, which, even if I say so myself, isn't a bad little pencil drawing.  In case you're wondering, 'DUNN KWIK ' is a pseudonym I use from time to time when I've produced something in a hurry.

Above is an OOR WULLIE cartoon someone asked me to draw.  It's only three and a half by five and a half inches, but the recipient was fair chuffed with their little freebie.  One day, when I've got the energy, I'll sit down and paint a full-page Oor Wullie cover. 

A few years ago, for my own amusement, I doodled a few 'roughs' of a cartoon strip I dreamt up in an idle moment.  These examples were drawn quickly with a black gel ball-point pen in a blue feint-ruled jotter.  (I've upped the contrast in order to 'white out' the blue lines, but you can still see a hint of them.)

I should stress that these are not 'finished ' strips, which - if I'd ever got 'round to doing - would've had more time spent on them and been drawn and lettered to a proper professional standard. 

    

The fourth and last one (below) I never completed, even though I had only one panel left to draw.  (Just lost interest.)  As I said, these were mere doodles and are no indication of my finished drawing standard, examples of which can be found elsewhere on this blog.

If you click on the above image to enlarge, you'll see the faint pencil indications of the girl throttling the guy in the final panel.  Must finish it off one day, and then draw them all out properly perhaps.  Anyway, that's yer lot for now.  At least until I uncover any more lost or mislaid art lying around my house.