Thursday, March 22, 2012

TS Sullivant 4

For your viewing pleasure, a short story illustrated by Sullivant. The humor is charming, but beware, there is a cruel ending. As usual, every pose of the animals is a gem. Look at the pushed smile of the elephant, the tiger dancing and the giraffe standing on her head. Cartoony poses with real anatomy.
A feast for the eyes !









19 comments:

  1. I wanted to ask if you could ever do a post on Dumbo. Do you have any of Bill's drawings from the Bathing Scene or Baby Mine? Do you have any of Kimball's crows? Dumbo is my favorite film and I'd love to see some artwork from it up here.

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    1. I have practically no original artwork from Dumbo.
      I might put a post up with some xeroxed drawings.

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  2. Aw man, this is doubly awesome because I love hyenas.

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  3. Oh wow, I have never seen animals drawn like that before! Very new and interesting for me. That angry hyena face? I swear my little sister gives me that look all the time! :D

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  4. These are great, you can see the animation in the illustration. As if each page was a still...

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  5. These TS Sullivant posts are always a treat... Still searching to find a book of his work to have in the studio.

    Thanks Andreas!

    P

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  6. Hi Andreas,
    Big fan of your blog. Now that the rough cut of The Sweatbox is floating around on the internet - any chance you could do a post on your thoughts about the documentary? Would love to hear. Thanks.

    Aaron Johnson
    http://whattheduck.net/

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    1. I have seen Sweatbox as well as the other documentaries.
      They are a little hard to watch for someone like me, because the films don't cover our artistic growth and achievements that much.
      They are about all this stuff that happened behind closed doors.

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  7. Im always fascinated how much Sullivant enlarges some of the animal's heads, just to get the personalities and caricature just right.

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  8. haha! I love these.. They're so cute and expressive... That characters are so beautiful!

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  9. I really enjoy those illustrations, my favorite are the tiger and the hippo designs.

    Thanks for sharing this Mr.Deja

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  10. Is this from Life or Judge?

    Ralph Bakshi has promised to send me a complete run of Sullivant's mastheads for the Hearst Sunday comic section to scan. He got them from Bill Blackbeard back in the 70s. I've seen a couple of those Sunday pages in the past and they're pretty amazing.

    Sullivant is a real cartoonist's cartoonist!

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    1. I believe they are from Judge. (The scans come from enlarged xeroxes, I like to study them that way.)
      It would be great to see those Sullivant mastheads from Bakshi's collection.
      I will keep posting from my Sullivant collection.

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  11. Thanks for the great stuff you're sharing! I'm getting a lot of new names of artists to research. Fun!

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  12. By the way, Ralph called me to tell me that he had stumbled across your Sullivant posts. He said that Sullivant is one of those artists who makes him just as excited about drawing the hundredth time he comes back to it as the first time he discovered a stack of Sullivant clippings in the Terrytoons studio library.

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  13. Wow. I can't believe how similar these look to Chris Sanders style or drawing. He's got to be a fan! Thanks for sharing, Andreas. I wasn't familiar with his work...

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  14. Love the way the Animals are drawn I wish I was a good drawer
    BTW thanks for sharing this great post with some interesting stuffs

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