In the early days of this blog I did a lot of newspaper comic strip ads. So many, in fact, that I don't always have a lot to add to those. But every once in a while I come across a new one and keep it apart. So here are a couple of news ads, that fit in with those I have shown earlier.
Wednesday Advertising Day.

I thought I had done this Tom Mix ad, but can't find it anywhere. The comic book series was quite succesful and is even mentioned in the Price Guide. My guess is these strips were taken from the same material.


If anythin, this mid fifties ad shows that the Terry and The Pirates brand was exploited regardless of who drew it or what characters were in it. While the series (and probably this ad) was drawn by George Wunder, the comic book advertised probbly reprinted a ten year old story by Milt Caniff.


These His Nibs ads for Nebisco went on for a couple of years. Although not Roland Coe's most exciting work (look for his Crosstown gags on my blog), it was very well executed and probably pretty succesful.


I had never seen this later serious Nabisco ad. My guess is that it is drawn by Elmer Wexler, a very capable artist who spoend the best years of his career doing unsigned (but probably well-paid) advertising work such as this..


These Postum ads by Lou Fine are among the best serious ones that were done in the early fifties. The only ones even better are the Sam Spade and Charlie Wild ads for Wildroot... also by Lou Fine.

Wednesday Advertising Day.

A busy week, so I am playing catch-up with a new Nebisco ad by Roland Coe I scanned recently. Yesterday's What a Family! post got a few reactions suggesting Colin Alln's style was rooted in the thirties. I can agree about that, but what strikes me when I look at it, is how Allen was bridging the gap between the older and newer styles, like cartoonist Dave Gerard and Roland Coe. Here too, we see an artist who joins classic round figure composition with a sharper modern ink line.

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Roland Coe was a terrific cartoonist and may have had more influence then we give him credit for these days. I see a dirct line from his work to that of Bus Blake, for instance.

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Roland Coe was an influential cartoon artist in the forties, most famous for his cub scouts cartoons in The Saturday Evening Post, but he also did cartoons for other magazines as well as a daily cartoon series called Crosstown, which I have shown before. Here are a couple more fresh scans from his most famous ad series, His Nibs for Nebisco. When he joined Johnstone and Cucshing his style became a major influence on artists such as Dik Browne and Gill Fox.

Dr. Feelgood

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Although his style was a bit band and his gags were a bit too sweet, Roland Coe was a very popular cartoonist in the forties and his style influenced many artists. You can see his influence in the work of Dave Gerhard and Dik Browne. Or at least, I can. He had a succesful newspaper a series called His Nibs for Nebisco. I found a few more color samples, which I have added to the lack and white ones I showed earlier.






























I acame across an early sample of this strip in a daily paper as well.


And to round this off, here are some cartoons he did for Collier's.

Roland, Roland, Roland

Wednesday Advertising Day.

When I first started scanning comic strip ads, I skipped these Nebisco ads by Roland Coe, because I found them a bit bland. But as I saw more of them, as well as Coe's daily panel in the forties and his cartoons for The Saturday Evening Post, I realized that his elegant style was in influence on a lot of cartoonists. I see traces of his style in Dik Browne and Bud Blake. Or maybe I have just grown to love them for themselves. I have shown some of these before, but at lest I was able to ad a color sample.

Dik and Coe

Wednesday Advertising Day.

Monday I showed some of Roland Coe's cartoons. My friend Mike Lynch had some extra information about the artist on his site (see the link on the right). Here I have some of Coe's advertising strips for Nebisco. This was his best knows series, although he did other things as well. I don't know if he did them on his own or through Johnstone adn Cushing, but I do think he was an influence on the early advertising work of Dik Browne. Escpecially his Roger Wilco series, which you can see if you follow the tag. In the same style as Roger Wilco was Colonel Mint, which I therefore think is by Browne as well. I will show those when I get home later today.