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20090531

Sunday Funnies - Babies all look alike.






Sure they do.


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20090530

Saturday's Child - Bill Smith



Bill Smith


Bill Smith, Jake's boy

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20090529

Found Friday - Babs makes her plans






Babs looked around.

She calculated how long it would take to leap the fence and make it to her car. Delbert Dalkins had a very annoying giggle.

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20090528

Hidden Signature - Frances Brundage




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In days of yore, copyright laws were still forming and publishers, printers, promoters and the like, often took advantage of illustrators by clipping off their signature from their original works, or even claiming the work for themselves.

Illustrators countered by simply incorporating a signature into their drawing somewhere. This identifying mark made the drawing more immune to theft, especially if the artist didn’t tell the publisher where the signature was!

Here are some examples of this clever device in some fine illustrations by the prolific artist Frances Brundage. The signature is out in the open in the lower right corner of the first two, but can you find the signature in the rest?

Answers NEXT WEEK!




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20090527

Wordless Wednesday - Reflections


Reflections

My own Wordless Wednesday

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20090526

Talking Pictures - Twilight






No. You didn't see that.




Twilight (corrected)

These are from the negatives. The negatives are so shiny that I cannot tell for sure which is the emulsion side. So I don't know if they are both correct or both wrong now.

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