Comics: Phoenix Con 1970 and 1972

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Phoenix Con

November 27–29, 1970

Advertisement in RBCC #75

Phoenix Con
June 16–18, 1972
Direct mail postmarked May 8, 1972

Advertisement in RBCC 90

Phoenix Con ’72 Program Booklet

All photographs by Alex Jay

C.C. Beck with his Phoenix Con award

C.C. Beck and Captain Tootsie with his prize,

a Beck original drawing of Captain Marvel

Most of the costume ball participants, from left to right:

Captain Tootsie (2nd prize best costume), C.C. Beck in front of Superman,

Captain Marvel Junior, Doctor Strange (1st prize best costume),

Summer Hamilton as Minnie Mouse in front of her father, Bruce as Ibis,

and Don Newton as Captain Marvel.

Cheers! Robin, Superman, Captain Marvel Jr. and Captain Marvel.

Beck and Newton

Summer Hamilton

Doctor Strange with his prize,
a Don Newton Batman illustration

Don Newton painting of Captain Marvel

The Arizona Republic

June 15, 1972

Tucson Daily Citizen

June 16, 1972

RBCC #95

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Typography: Chinese Oreo Cookies, Part 3

June 23, 2014, 5:00 am

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Banana

Maxwell House Coffee

White Chocolate

Mint Chocolate

Strawberry
(a dozen foil-wrapped cookies)

Aeon Supermarket in the basement
of Wangfujing in Guangzhou, China

Chinese Oreo Cookies, Part 1
Chinese Oreo Cookies, Part 2

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Lettering: Ault and Wiborg, 1907–1908

June 30, 2014, 5:00 am

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The Inland Printer, February 1907

The Inland Printer, March 1907

The Inland Printer, April 1907

The Inland Printer, May 1907

The American Printer, June 1907

The Inland Printer, July 1907

The Inland Printer, August 1907

The Printing Art, September 1907

The Inland Printer, November 1907

The Inland Printer, December 1907

The Inland Printer, January 1908

The Inland Printer, February 1908

The Inland Printer, March 1908

The Inland Printer, April 1908

The Inland Printer, May 1908

The Inland Printer, June 1908

The Inland Printer, August 1908

The Inland Printer, September 1908

The Printing Art, September 1908

The Printing Art, October 1908

The Inland Printer, December 1908

Ault & Wiborg Inks

Will Bradley and Ault & Wiborg

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Fourth of July, 1912 and 1924

July 4, 2014, 5:00 am

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Judge

July 6, 1912

The Skull.

Danger lurks in every pack, and Death’s symbol should be the “trade-mark.”

Harold Ansel Van Buren

October 15, 1886, Brooklyn, New York – October 1977, Brooklyn, New York

Life
July 3, 1924

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Lettering: The Art and Use of the Poster

July 7, 2014, 5:00 am

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Chuck Thorndike

The House of Little Books, 1945

Selected pages

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Lettering: Brooklyn Botanic Garden

July 14, 2014, 5:00 am

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Some of the names on the Administration Building

Cameraruis

Dutrochet

Malpighi

Marshall Ward

Mirbel

Schwendener

Strasburger

Theophrastus

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Street Scene: Brooklyn Yarn Dye Co Inc

July 21, 2014, 5:00 am

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•N E WY O R KC I T Y•

2201 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn

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Comics: Artie Simek in the National Lampoon

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February 1984
“The Surfer Scripts”
by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones
illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz

Story about the unpublished Silver Surfer scripts by a variety of writers. Artie is mentioned twice.

page 74, column 3, bottom: ...This idea died, however, when Marvel’s durable staff letterer Artie Simek couldn’t think of a way to letter a laugh-track onto a comic-book page.

page 78, column 3, third paragraph: …The note of acceptance was never sent, however, due to the objections of letterer Artie Simek. Said he in a memo to Stan: “What is this, some kind of cruel joke to play on a man with weak eyes? Look at my glasses, like a finger they’re so thick. I should handwrite all these words and go blind? He wants all those words, you let this Wolfe letter the comic himself! I should care if he wrote To the Lighthouse?”

Names and Titles in the Story

WRITERS
Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Eldridge Cleaver, Joan Didion, Ralph Ellison, George V. Higgins, John Irving, Dan Jenkins, Erica Jong, Jerzy Kosinski, Stan Lee, Elmore Leonard, John D. McDonald, Larry McMurtry, James Michener, Robert B. Parker, Harold Robbins, Tom Robbins, D.M. Thomas, Roy Thomas, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Westlake, Tom Wolfe

ARTISTS
Joseph Barbera, Sol Brodsky, John Buscema, William Hanna, Jack Kirby, Peyo, Charles M. Schulz, Artie Simek, Barry Smith

COMICS CHARACTERS
Beast, Black Panther, Charles Xavier, Cyclops, Galactus, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Iron Man, Irving Forbush, Marvel Girl, Mr. Fantastic, Norrin-Radd, Rawhide Kid, Red Skull, Shalla-Bal, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Super-Skrull, Thing, Thor, Ultra-Boy, Watcher

ACTORS
Gary Cooper, Richard Gere, Paul Newman, Sylvester Stallone, Elizabeth Taylor

PUBLISHERS
DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Village Voice

BOOKS
Look Homeward, Angel!, To the Lighthouse

TV CHARACTERS
Beaver, Wally

MOVIES
Breathless, High Noon

COMPOSER
Aaron Copland

POLITICIAN
Richard Daley

HISTORICAL PERSON
Nathan Hale

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Creator: Neal Adams’ Ring of the Nibelung

March 31, 2014, 5:00 am

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Advertisement in Vanity Fair, June 1990

Anatomy of a Logo: The Ring of the Nibelung, Part 1

Anatomy of a Logo: The Ring of the Nibelung, Part 2

Street Scene: The Metropolitan Opera’s Ring Cycle (2012)

YouTube: Das Rheingold (1990)

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Street Scene: Neon in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Macau

August 4, 2014, 5:00 am

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HONG KONG

Neon signs on Temple Street and streets nearby

Hong Kong Museum of History

Victoria Peak

GUANGZHOU

Lan Kwai Fong, Shamian Island

MACAU

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Comics: Hong Kong Comic Books

August 11, 2014, 5:00 am

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Hong Kong Museum of History

Popular Culture—Comic Books

In the 1950s and 1960s, comic book-stalls in Hong Kong were

virtually everywhere, and youngsters needed to pay only 10 cents

to read 10 of their favourites. To increase business, most street

barber-stalls bought many comics for young customers to read.

The most popular were the Miss Thirteen and Old Master Q series.

From the intellectual’s view, the cultural identity of the time was

best illustrated by literary magazines and student journals such as

New Currents and College Life.

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Comics: Superman, 1973 Chinese Edition

August 18, 2014, 5:00 am

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SUPERMAN

(Chinese edition 1973)

Published bi-monthly by

Pan-Asia Publications Ltd.

1201/2 Kam Chung Bldg.

54 Jaffe Road, Hong Kong

First issue covers and splash page

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Creator: Mario Mariotti

August 25, 2014, 5:00 am

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Hanimals

Mario Mariotti

Green Tiger Press, 1984

The Best of Ad Campaigns!

Steve Blount and Lisa Walker

Rockport, 1988

Noblia Citizen, client

Lintas: New York, agency

…They needed what every client wants: Smart, breakthrough advertising. What they got was a trip to the zoo. Mike Jordan, the copywriter assigned to the business, had a book of “hand sculptures” which had been created by an Italian artist, Mario Mariotti. Mariotti's technique was to take someone’s hand, quickly daub it with paint to resemble some kind of animal, then photograph it. Arendash felt that, if the concept could be refined, “animals” would be a terrific way to show off Noblia….

…Working with Mariotti’s idea of the hand as an animal, Bruce Arendash and creative director Lynn Giordano began putting the pieces together. They hired Hiro, the famed Japanese photographer. Matching product attributes to animal characters, they came up with a duck, a swan, a giraffe and a zebra. The headlines pointed up the similarities: “Waterproof as a duck,” “Elegant as a swan.” “Thin as a giraffe,” “Bold as a Zebra.”…

…We really needed to set an image. The ‘animals’ did a good job of that from an advertising point of view, but where the ads appeared was just as important,” Kravetz continues. Lintas bought heavily in the fashion list: GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Esquire. It also bought Town & Country, a key play in the jewelry industry….

…The “animals” were unleashed in Fall 1986, to coincide with the second half of the 1986 buying season. Citizen put about $2 million behind the effort and a bit more than that for 1987. For their money, they got a series of spreads and a special twelve-page insert in jewelery [sic] trade magazines....

As Waterproof As a Duck.