For your viewing pleasure, a short story illustrated by Sullivant. The humor is charming, but beware, there is a cruel ending. As usual, every pose of the animals is a gem. Look at the pushed smile of the elephant, the tiger dancing and the giraffe standing on her head. Cartoony poses with real anatomy.
A feast for the eyes !
I wanted to ask if you could ever do a post on Dumbo. Do you have any of Bill's drawings from the Bathing Scene or Baby Mine? Do you have any of Kimball's crows? Dumbo is my favorite film and I'd love to see some artwork from it up here.
ReplyDeleteI have practically no original artwork from Dumbo.
DeleteI might put a post up with some xeroxed drawings.
Aw man, this is doubly awesome because I love hyenas.
ReplyDeleteAww, that's awesome! <3
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I have never seen animals drawn like that before! Very new and interesting for me. That angry hyena face? I swear my little sister gives me that look all the time! :D
ReplyDeleteLOL This is great:)))))))
ReplyDeleteThese are great, you can see the animation in the illustration. As if each page was a still...
ReplyDeleteThese TS Sullivant posts are always a treat... Still searching to find a book of his work to have in the studio.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andreas!
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Hi Andreas,
ReplyDeleteBig fan of your blog. Now that the rough cut of The Sweatbox is floating around on the internet - any chance you could do a post on your thoughts about the documentary? Would love to hear. Thanks.
Aaron Johnson
http://whattheduck.net/
I have seen Sweatbox as well as the other documentaries.
DeleteThey are a little hard to watch for someone like me, because the films don't cover our artistic growth and achievements that much.
They are about all this stuff that happened behind closed doors.
Im always fascinated how much Sullivant enlarges some of the animal's heads, just to get the personalities and caricature just right.
ReplyDeletehaha! I love these.. They're so cute and expressive... That characters are so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy those illustrations, my favorite are the tiger and the hippo designs.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this Mr.Deja
Is this from Life or Judge?
ReplyDeleteRalph Bakshi has promised to send me a complete run of Sullivant's mastheads for the Hearst Sunday comic section to scan. He got them from Bill Blackbeard back in the 70s. I've seen a couple of those Sunday pages in the past and they're pretty amazing.
Sullivant is a real cartoonist's cartoonist!
I believe they are from Judge. (The scans come from enlarged xeroxes, I like to study them that way.)
DeleteIt would be great to see those Sullivant mastheads from Bakshi's collection.
I will keep posting from my Sullivant collection.
Thanks for the great stuff you're sharing! I'm getting a lot of new names of artists to research. Fun!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Ralph called me to tell me that he had stumbled across your Sullivant posts. He said that Sullivant is one of those artists who makes him just as excited about drawing the hundredth time he comes back to it as the first time he discovered a stack of Sullivant clippings in the Terrytoons studio library.
ReplyDeleteWow. I can't believe how similar these look to Chris Sanders style or drawing. He's got to be a fan! Thanks for sharing, Andreas. I wasn't familiar with his work...
ReplyDeleteLove the way the Animals are drawn I wish I was a good drawer
ReplyDeleteBTW thanks for sharing this great post with some interesting stuffs