Cartoon Modern

A blog by Amid Amidi of inspiring cartoon art from the 1950s. For more, see my book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation from Chronicle Books. And don't forget to visit Cartoon Brew.

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Tue May 12

Sailing and Village Band (1958, UPA)

director: Fred Crippen

designer: Jimmy Murakami

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Mon May 11

A segment from Stan Freberg Presents The Chun King Chow Mein Hour: Salute to the Chinese New Year (February 4, 1962)

director: Fred Crippen

designer: Saul Bass & Art Goodman

(Soundtrack is from Freberg’s album “Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America”)

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Thu May 7

Character from a Bar-S Meats commercial produced by Ray Patin Productions (ca. 1950s)

designer: unknown

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Wed May 6

Unidentified characters from a commercial produced by Ray Patin Productions (ca. 1950s)

designer: unknown

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Tue May 5

Unidentified characters from a commercial produced by Ray Patin Productions (ca. 1950s)

designer: unknown

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Mon Apr 27

Man drawn onto cel

Artist: Len Glasser

(ca. late-1950s)

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Sun Apr 26

Stills from a Union 76 Gasoline commercial (Playhouse Pictures)

designer: Sterling Sturtevant

(PS - I promise to post more.)

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Fri Feb 27

I think this was a TV commercial for Mars Candy, but I could be mistaken.

(ca. 1955, UPA)

director/designer: Gene Deitch

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Wed Feb 25

Brotherhood of Man (1945, UPA)

director: Bobe Cannon

designer: John Hubley

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Tue Feb 24

Brotherhood of Man (1945, UPA)

director: Bobe Cannon

designer: John Hubley