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.
Sun Dec 21
Faygo soft drink TV commercial (ca. 1955, Storyboard Inc.) concept painting by David Weidman (Note: The idea to make one of the children black was a conscious choice on the part of Weidman. Unfortunately, in the final commercial, the black child was turned white. There’s a still from the spot in my book Cartoon Modern.)

Faygo soft drink TV commercial (ca. 1955, Storyboard Inc.)

concept painting by David Weidman

(Note: The idea to make one of the children black was a conscious choice on the part of Weidman. Unfortunately, in the final commercial, the black child was turned white. There’s a still from the spot in my book Cartoon Modern.)