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Sometime in 1988, Bruce Hamilton of Gladstone Comics (who at the time had the rights to re-publish old Disney comics) called me on the phone. He asked me if thought I could draw Floyd Gottfredson's 1950's version of Mickey Mouse. I said I had never tried but I would give it a whirl.
I quickly did a few ink sketches, and these are them. (The scan image is actually larger than the original for clarity's sake.)
Bruce then indicated that he wanted someone to copy specific drawings from Floyd's old comics. I told him I didn't think I would want to do that, and that was the end of that.
Later I began to wonder just what the heck he wanted copies of Floyd's Mickey Mice for. I never did find out.
I quickly did a few ink sketches, and these are them. (The scan image is actually larger than the original for clarity's sake.)
Bruce then indicated that he wanted someone to copy specific drawings from Floyd's old comics. I told him I didn't think I would want to do that, and that was the end of that.
Later I began to wonder just what the heck he wanted copies of Floyd's Mickey Mice for. I never did find out.
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Interesting to see a mix of two styles!
This is pretty old but I tried to draw Kiki in the same style once: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1853338/
This is pretty old but I tried to draw Kiki in the same style once: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1853338/
To make bogus prints maybe? There was a lucrative market in printing up 1,000 cheap litho backgrounds and having some Mexican or Philippino artist paint a Tex Avery or Chuck Jones look-alike for the cell over it. The finished product might go for anywhere from $50 to $500, depending on how gullible the customer and how unscrupulous the vendor.
Steve Martin got mixed up in one of those deals. He was paid something like $500 for the background painting, and thought he was doing making goo money. Then I preformed some simple arithmetic to show that the guy hiring him was making about a half million dollars (assuming the print run sold out) and Steve was only getting 1/1,000th. part of it. He asked for a raise and was brutally told he could be replaced by an illiterate in Bangladesh or somewhere.
I recall there were a lot of "rules" to the game. A print might be totally a new creation, that only bore a resemblance to a cartoon scene, or might be a recreation of a scene by the same artist, or it might be an original work. Technically, there was no fraud involved... provided the buyer understood exactly what he was getting.
Steve Martin got mixed up in one of those deals. He was paid something like $500 for the background painting, and thought he was doing making goo money. Then I preformed some simple arithmetic to show that the guy hiring him was making about a half million dollars (assuming the print run sold out) and Steve was only getting 1/1,000th. part of it. He asked for a raise and was brutally told he could be replaced by an illiterate in Bangladesh or somewhere.
I recall there were a lot of "rules" to the game. A print might be totally a new creation, that only bore a resemblance to a cartoon scene, or might be a recreation of a scene by the same artist, or it might be an original work. Technically, there was no fraud involved... provided the buyer understood exactly what he was getting.
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