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Matt Madden

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Famous Artists Cartoun Pantoum

March 20, 2011 by matt 4 Comments

My comics pantoum experiments continue with this appropriated pantoum using instructional panels by an uncredited artist.

 

If anyone can identify the artist on this I would appreciate it. It’s Segar-esque yet clearly not him. Perhaps a later Popeye artist? Someone mentioned Rube Goldberg, who was indeed won of the artists working on the Famous Artist Cartoon Course from which this is drawn. Could that be it? (Interestingly, if you look around online you’ll find these same panels redrawn in a much less graceful style by some later artist. Who knows why.)

[update: Jason Little figured out that it’s Segar’s former assistant Bud Sagendorf, who went on to take over Popeye when Segar died (a collection of his Popeye work was published recently)–thanks Jason!]

I used a slightly altered Helvetica Neue for the font to approximate the look of the original worksheets. I would appreciate it if anyone could let me know which typefaces were actually used.

For more about pantoums see here and here.

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Comments

  1. Matt Madden says

    March 20, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    Funny, I didn't think of Silent Running but you're right. (If you do'nt know what we're talking about it's languishing here: http://www.tomhart.net/oubapo/archive/silent/index.html I'm planning on doing a post about it sometime at dw-wp.com)
    IF you mean the origins of those four panels, I made them up after talking it over with you and Jason.

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  2. Hutch says

    March 21, 2011 at 2:23 AM

    Nice! This reminds me vaguely of "Silent Running." Is that a coincidence? (I forget the origins of that piece- do we have it online?)

    -Tom

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  3. Manybos says

    April 3, 2011 at 6:38 PM

    This is hilarious!

    Reply
  4. Matt Madden says

    April 3, 2011 at 6:55 PM

    thanks!

    Reply

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