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Post by lagatta on Sept 30, 2020 23:28:43 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Sept 30, 2020 23:35:50 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 1, 2020 17:24:18 GMT
Thanks for that, LaGatta!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 1, 2020 17:33:18 GMT
Mafalda was a superstar in France. Visually, you could consider to her to be similar to Nancy (the fish girl!), but she was much more philosophical.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2020 18:34:16 GMT
Franco-Japanese fashion desiner Kenzo Takada has died. I bought a sportscoat with his label many years ago, and it was the best one I ever owned. (Bought at a huge discount during a sale.) Once on a flight from Atlanta to Tampa when I had been upgraded to 1st class, I was sitting next to an NFL star, who raved over it and wanted one for himself. I don't know if they ever made them that big.
I still use a Kenzo eau de toilette from time to time.
He died of covid-19 at age 81.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2020 5:10:45 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2021 9:32:05 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 10, 2021 10:29:24 GMT
At least Robert Crumb is still alive, probably saved by moving to a small village in France 30 years ago.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 10, 2021 12:00:06 GMT
I think we missed the passing of another cartoonist, also named Wilson, in November 2019. Gahan Wilson specialized in macabre imagery often with an environmental message that appealed to my younger self. His cartoons used to be featured in Playboy magazine, and I ripped some of them out of Dad’s copies. www.denofgeek.com/culture/gahan-wilson-dies-at-89/“His first published cartoon, from 1954, depicted a boy and his father in a blizzard. The boy points at the frozen corpse of a bird, its feet and beak poking out of the snow, and says, “Look, Daddy, the first robin.” “ My personal favorite is of 2 men wearing gasmasks standing before a window revealing the US Capitol shrouded in smog, with the caption: “I’m sorry Senator, it’s more of those crackpot environmentalists.” Or the image of a very large bloodshot eyeball in a car mirror with the embossed warning “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.”
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Post by Kimby on Feb 10, 2021 12:01:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2021 19:28:29 GMT
I think we missed the passing of another cartoonist, also named Wilson, in November 2019. Gahan Wilson specialized in macabre imagery often with an environmental message that appealed to my younger self. Thanks so much, Kimby. I read about it when he died, but neglected to acknowledge it here. I too loved his stuff from childhood on. Since I was reading this thread from the bottom up, I was shocked to see your post at #60, thinking that you were linking to S.Clay Wilson's cartoons. Surely not, I thought -- this is a family forum!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 23, 2021 20:32:57 GMT
I had no idea that he was still alive.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2021 22:44:48 GMT
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Post by casimira on Mar 22, 2021 13:37:56 GMT
Yes, I enjoyed the Vogue obituary particularly because of the accompanying photos. I don't think I ever knew what she looked like. I was never a huge fan of her designs but, wouldn't turn my nose up if someone gave me one of her pieces. My least favorite design of hers is her signature open heart. Owning and wearing one to me is more of a status symbol. I've always disliked it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2021 15:16:12 GMT
I always thought the heart looked like a sweet gift for a younger teen. And you're undoubtedly right that perhaps they were valued because of brand name & price. But to be fair, some of any designer's pieces get so copied and endlessly reproduced that they wind up looking trite.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2021 19:03:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2021 19:42:43 GMT
Both June and Helmut seem so closely linked with modernity that the fact that they were born a century ago remains surprising.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 14, 2021 14:36:02 GMT
Bernie Madoff was an artist of sorts. You can't swindle people out of $65 billion without being brilliant and imaginative. He was only 82 so he will not complete his 150-year prison sentence.
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Post by huckle on May 27, 2021 5:36:03 GMT
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Post by questa on May 27, 2021 10:06:22 GMT
Generally speaking, these artists seem to lead long, long lives. I wonder if the creative streak they must have keeps them going past the average age.
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2021 12:23:46 GMT
It always surprises me when painters live past middle age, what with all the heavy metals used as pigments...
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2021 17:16:30 GMT
When my son was little he attended a pre-school where the parents volunteered as assistants. The Very Hungry Caterpillar was requested by the kids over and over again. Whenever I read it to them they would be in gales of laughter. It remains a marvel that Eric Carle was able to tap into exactly what appealed to little children.
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Post by casimira on May 27, 2021 17:52:17 GMT
The Hungry Caterpillar was the number 1 favorite of almost every child I nannied for or babysat for over the years. (the second one was Good Night Moon, an excellent bedtime story).
Along these same lines, I recently looked up the age of George Booth, our all time favorite cartoonist for the New Yorker. He is 94 years old and still, although, not as frequently, posting cartoons in the NYer. Astounding!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2021 19:58:59 GMT
As a fellow dog owner, how many times have you glanced at one of your dogs and thought, "a perfect Booth cartoon!"?
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Post by casimira on May 27, 2021 20:09:48 GMT
It happens to us everyday Bixa. Most especially in our new living quarters where we are living out out of boxes and garbage bags for the most part. All that's missing is a bare light bulb which T. is threatening to go out and buy just to make it complete.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2021 20:13:51 GMT
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Post by lagatta on May 27, 2021 20:21:28 GMT
I'll have to go back and look up George Booth cartoons.
Casimira, you deserve a giant multicoloured M for morale in the face of disaster!
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Post by casimira on Jun 2, 2021 18:48:17 GMT
Speaking of cartoonists. Local cartoonist Bunny Mathews died yesterday. He was legendary in his creation of a classic married couple who were portrayed as Vic and Nat'ly from the Ninth Ward in NOLA and spoke in the classic N'awlins dialect and are known as Yats (abbreviation of "Where are you at", into "where y'at?) My husband knew him as they attended the same university here in New Orleans. A very sad loss for us locals here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2021 19:00:33 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2022 21:09:30 GMT
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