South of the Boarder Sunday - July 4 & July 18, 1943

Last year I posted some more Jose Carioca strips, I didn't know much about them, who drew them and what have you. David Gerstein left the following comment, which in case you didn't get to read it sheds some light on these strips:

The examples you published were drawn by Bob Grant and Karl Karpé (the earlier page) and Paul Murry and Dick Moores (the later one).

The José Sunday strip succeeded the Silly Symphonies Sunday; it was later replaced by a Panchito strip, which was itself then replaced with Uncle Remus (so you can see how this worked in succession).


Only a couple isolated Sundays from the José series have been reprinted in modern US comics, but they're incredibly popular in Brazil, where local Disney cartoonists followed up on the Sundays' continuity and cast of characters when starting their own José series (which continues today).

The strips David refers to here were posted on July 29 and August 7, 2011. I find it fascinating that the strip continues in Brazil, I wonder if they would ever be collected in book form and translated.

South of the Boarder Sunday - May 2 & May 9, 1943

THE RIVETER - model sheet

Sorry to anyone who follows the blog, I've been very busy with work and preparing my short animated film. I'm still here with lot's to share.

I have a stack of vintage photostat and ozalid model sheets from Disney in the 30s and early 40s, here's one I particularly like. It's from the 1940 Donald short THE RIVETER. The drawings look like they are trimmed from original animator sketches.

Walt shows off NATO Award

October 17, 1966 (according to stamp on reverse) :

Walt Disney, producer and Sophia Loren, actress, got their heads together as they showed off trophies they received recently in New York from the National Association of Theater Owners. Disney was named Showman of the World and Miss Loren was named Actress of the Year.

Walt meets an ancestor? - 1951

From the reverse side:

Walt Disney pauses to examine one of the crypts in a small church in Ireland. Disney's forebearers originally came from Ireland, and during his trip to Europe in 1951 he made it a point to visit the farms, villages and churches of his great-grandfathers.

If you look closely at around where Walt's right hand is you'll make out the name Disney, at least it looks like it says Dsiney.

More OSWALD advertising

Happy New Year everyone, it occured to me yesterday that this year will mark the 85th anniversary of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Here are a couple of ads from the Universal Weekly, I find it odd that  a/ the artwork looks nothing like the character and b/ that the Disney artists weren't paid to do it.

Some original Gottfredson strips.

I wish I could say I owned these, but no, I found them in my files as I've been  clearing hard drive space for the upcoming year of work and backing up onto an external drive. I may have posted a couple in the past but they're worth seeing again. Enjoy.