Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Mascots


I've started a new series of drawings on my way to and from work... Product Mascots: Where are they now? I think this one speaks for itself...

7 comments:

Tom Moon said...

I especially love the crossed band-aids on the head! They were always putting those on the characters in Mad. Might have been a Wally Wood or Jack Davis thing. Makes the character seem so grubby.

Beata said...

Nice!
Reminds me of the has-been/senior superhero series of drawings.

Tom Carroll said...

Nice! Should we take up a collection for him? ... ;-)

Mr Goodson said...

Probably Jack Davis bandaids Tom.

Not a bad Mr Clean with no ref. I might have given him a genie vest and then discovered it was always a nice clean T.

Tom Moon said...

Have you seen that new book "Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising with Character". Bud Plant sent around an e-mail advertising it. And on Amazon you can browse through the book a little and see a lot of funny old little-remembered mascots. Is this what gave you the idea for the series Rick?

http://www.amazon.com/Ad-Boy-Vintage-Advertising-Character/dp/1580089844/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247186683&sr=1-1#

rickart said...

No, I think it was a combination of the aging superheroes (as Beata suggests) and one of the artists at work who did a series of paintings of the Otter Pop characters.

LOVE Jack Davis!

Hey, that book looks awesome! I think I need to get that.

More drawings to come.

rickart said...

I think I forgot to give him a gold earring.