Sunday, May 26, 2013

DIES Yrrah - Harry Lammertink


Harry Lammertink, better known as YRRAH was a Dutch cartoonist (1932-1996). A few weeks ago, his second cartoon book  'DIES Yrrah' came into my possession. I only paid 1,99 euro for this great 'vintage' cartoon book.  It's published in 1959 (De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam).

After more than half a century, the cartoons are not outdated and are still witty. In a next post I'll present another book and I'll show some of his cartoons draw from the frog perspective, typical for his drawing style.

cyclist drinking cartoon
Yrrah - cyclist cartoon

chief editor cartoon napoleon
Yrrah - Chief Editor cartoon

fakier cartoon snake
Fakir cartoon

buckingham palace cartoon
guard cartoon

london transport bus cartoon
London transport cartoon

priest cartoon
priest cartoon

Yrrah psychiatrist cartoon

Learn more:
Yrrah on Wikipedia

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Antiques in shards - Antike in Scherben ... impressions after a visit to the Louvre


Yesterday I've been visiting the brand new Louvre museum in Lens - France. It's a branch of the "big" Louvre in Paris. The architecture of the modern building is quite impressive and the collection shows lots of masterpieces.  Seeing the the ancient greek pottery shown in the "Galley of Time" ,made me think of a cartoon book I recently acquired: "Antike in Scherben " by Neprakta,  pseudonym of artis Jiri Winter (1924-2011).   Book reference: Artia Praha, Czechoslovakia, 1961.



beaucoup de monde for a Wednesday morning...

small amphora...
very big one... 
Ancient pottery art versus cartoon art... like it!





















Learn more:
Jiri Winter official website
www.louvrelens.fr
Ancient Greek pottery

Thursday, May 2, 2013

History of the automobile from the stone age to Henri Ford - a story by H.U. Steger


A few weeks ago I've found this particular book with the German title "Lasst hupen aus alter Zeit. Die Geschichte des Automobils van der Steinzeit bis Henry Ford" by H.U. Steger (Diogenes-Verlag, Zürich, 1955). I really like this kind of imaginary ,fictive inventiveness  and humorous view on history... it's like a specific kind of science fiction, not into the future, but back in time...


reconstruction of an early egyptian convertible
hieroglyphs in the tomb of an ancient egyptian police officer

olde chinese Hei-wei (highway ;-)
meanwhile in ancient Rome....

pedestrians thrown before the automobiles in Rome's Arena of Death...
the tribe of the Teutons...
the cruisades...

the Huns...
knights...

wine transportation by monks....

the Peugeot of Louis XIV...



Indians...

more indians...
Learn more:
www.h-u-steger.ch