Brownies

Saturday Leftover Day.

When I started this blog I showed a lot of advertising work by Dik Browne. I recently ran across a couple of new samples of a series I have shown earlier. Frankly, I's say these one panel Camel ads are about the best thing Browne ever did. I have added all the old ones I showed earlier to this post, so you'll have them all together.

Camel or Camels?

I have shown quite a few Camel (or Camels) ads here and they have always been popular. But there are still a lot more where those came from. Camels comic ads appeared from at least 1944 to well into the sixties with a frequency of once every two weeks. Different appraoches were tried, as you can see here. I particulary like the period in the early fifties when they used celebrities in the then very fasionable 'advertising style'. After that, Dik Browne took over, in a series that ran well into the start of Hi and Lois. Did he do the later ones? They certainly look like his work. The only ones I am not showing here (want I want to try and do as complete a post about them as possible and that takes some more scanning) are the Bilko ads by Bob Bugg.

Get Them While They're Young

Saturday Leftover Day.

In addition to the Lipton ads by Dik Browne, here are some more ads I found. I think the Camel series (of which I have shown several others) is one of the best showcases of Browne's early illustration work. This one comes from the back of a 1952 college humor magazine.

I'd walk a Mile if I wouldn't be out of breath so quickly

Wednesday Advertising Day.

I have been scanning some earlier ads. These three are from 1948. The first one is a late installment in the Postum series. Mr. Coffee Nerves started in the late thirties and at one point was even drawn by Milt Caniff and Noel Sickles. At this point others had taken over, but the result is equally impressive.



These two Camels ads are some of the earliest samples I have ever seen of the 'illustrator style' that was later made famous by Stan Drake, Leonard Starr and Neal Adams. Others who worked in this style are Tom Schreuer and Nick Cardy, but I don't think any of the last three was involved. Which is curious, because the last one looks as if Neal Adams drew it... years before he picked up a pencil.