Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Trading Cards Wax Pack (1964)

THE NEW YORKER, November 3, 1956

Here are some illustrations from cartoonist Abner Dean’s(1910-1982) book “It’s A Long Way To Heaven”.Abner Deans a cartoonist I’ve become a bit obsessed with for one thing he’s very mysterious there’s not a lot of info on him but mainly for his art obviously just from these alone you can tell Dean had quite the imagination his surreal cartoon drawings in this book can range from interesting to disturbing but no matter what I love them all and I’m a bit upset we can’t know more about this artist.

Panels of comic strip TEENA, by Hilda Terry (1914-2006). Terry was the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society.

So well-drawn: so lean and economical, elegant. The actions and emotions of the loose-limbed teens populating the comic are always clear and bright, their poses free from the stiff clichés usually seen in teen comics. These examples are all from the 1950s.

Akira Toriyama

"In the Arms of the Arctic Ocean. An Essay from the Life of Fishermen" by Pyotr Dobry, cover art by E. Lvov (1924)

Some Stylish Cover Art Work by Don Ulsh.

A Cartoon by Peter Arno I Enjoy His Style It Has So Much Energy In the motion of the woman and the expressions on the faces of the men all read clearly tying the whole image together.

A Illustration by Abner Dean for Life Magazine for some articles over George Orwell’s Novel “1984”.I may be alone in this camp but personally I think Dean’s art style suits Orwell’s novel perfectly it’s cartoonish and has a slight unsettling feel to it just fits the vibe of the book perfectly I wish he illustrated the full novel he did a couple more illustrations for this article though.

José Antonio Guillermo Divito