Yesterday’s Papers: Bird’s-eye Views

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

In the roads of Paree with cartoonist Pierlis

1909 [1] Detail.

Frenchman Pierre-Marie-Joseph Lissac (March 19, 1878, Limoges - 1955, Chevreuse) worked as cartoonist under the pennames ‘Pierlis,’ ‘Pierre Lissac’ and ‘Kiss.’ Bylined as Pierlis he did these large cartoons for Le Rire. This is a selection of fifteen, published as full-pagers in 1909-13.

1890s [2] Title design of Le Rire weekly, Paris, France.

1909 [3] Small exercises. March 13.

1909 [4] War preparation. April 10.

1909 [5] The army’s role during a general strike. May 1.

1909 [6] A pretty Paris fire. May 29.

1909 [7] Large exercises. Sep 25.

1910 [8] Swedish gymnastics. Nov 19.

1910 [9] Melancholia. Feb 18.

1910 [10] Air support. Aug 5. Signed with both his penname Pierlis and his real name Pierre Lissac.

1910 [11] Nine days of camping. Oct 7.

1910 [12] First contacts. Nov 4.

1910 [13] Dung duty. April 5.

1910 [14] A fixed solution. May 10.

1910 [15] The husbands’ train. Aug 23.

1910 [16] A new school year starts. Oct 4.

1913 [17] Militairy program. Dec 20.

1913 [18] Found no photo of Pierre Lissac yet.

Pictures selected by Huib van Opstal from the Gallica archives.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Beech-Nut Gum Mystery Artist – Solved

SOLVED The Beech-Nut Gum mystery artist has been identified by Craig J. Lane, Vancouver, B.C., as Stuart Hay (1889-1969). George Freeman verified the identification with a link — Hay’s signature next to a picture credit HERE. While a brief biography of Stuart Hay can be found HERE. Hay’s humorous illustrations frequently appeared in the New York Tribune throughout 1922; in the same period he contributed to Everybody’s Magazine and Judge.

[Photoplay, August 1934]

And Will Chandler (of Chandler Art Consulting Services, San Diego) adds:

‘The Circus artwork appears to have inspired a three dimensional model that Beech-Nut exhibited in their booth at San Diego’s California Pacific International Exposition in 1935-36. In the 1936 season they also advertised a traveling version in one or more trucks; the ad for that states that the San Diego model was also exhibited at subsequent expositions in Dallas and Cleveland.

The Beech-Nut Packing Company had a large booth in the 1935-36 CPIE exposition in San Diego, in the Palace of Food & Beverages, managed by W.C. Arkell (Clark).

The first Hays advertisement, titled “Join the Big Parade,” ran on the August 1934 back covers of Photoplay and New Movie Magazine, and as the inside front cover of the September 1934 Movie Classic Magazine.’

[International confectioner, 1922]

THANKS to Craig J. Lane, George Freeman, Will Chandler

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Beech-Nut Gum – A Cartoon Puzzler from 1935

TWO magnificent full-page bird’s-eye views for ‘Beech-Nut Gum and Candies’ — both prominently signed, but the bold, wet signature is almost illegible. See several previous Cartoon Puzzlers HERE.