THE GOODIES - 1976 CARTOON ADVERT. ANYONE KNOW... ?

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 01:58

Anyone know who the artist is? Click on the link to view the advert...

Originally posted by Shaqui on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 01:58

You might also want to try asking the Goodies Fan club at http://www.goodiesruleok.com

Originally posted by Dizrythmia on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 01:59

I have already posted it at the Goodies Rule OK website, and they were asking if it was the same artist who drew the Goodies strip in Cor!

I said i'd find out by asking some comic experts...

Originally posted by Shaqui on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 01:59

It MIGHT be by Mike Lacey, who drew Sid's Snake (and many other strips). On the other hand, it might be by some advertising company who've had a designer crib various bits from different comics. (Such as the dog and cat).

Originally posted by Lew Stringer on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 02:00

It's definitely not the artist who drew the Cor!! strip. That was Joe Colquhoun, who later drew Charley's War.

Originally posted by Lew Stringer on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 02:00

Thanks Lew - I'm not familiar enough with his work to say. Kim Stevens also noted the similarity between the dog & cat, and other work in traditional comics like Buster, Whizzer & Chips etc.

But as you say, any reasonably proficient artist could mimic a style. I suppose even i could at a push...

Originally posted by Shaqui on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 02:01

The dog and cat look like they were cribbed from Baxendale (copied, not lifted if you know what I mean). I don't think it was Mike Lacey. It doesn't quite has his feel. Could it have been an in-house ad agency artist?

Originally posted by Brendan McGuire on the old forum on 23/1/2006

Old Forum Fella · Post by **Old Forum Fella** » 27 Feb 2006, 02:01

Very few advertising agencies would have an in-house illustrator - they would have commissioned someone, unless they had no budget in which case one of the designers might have cribbed someone's style themselves...

Originally posted by Shaqui on the old forum on 25/1/2006