Armistice Day 2011 - De Oorlog in Prent by Jan Feith (The War in cartoons)

Is there a better day and a better place to buy an old book with political cartoons of the years preceding and the first year of World War 1? On 11 November 2011 about 11 o'clock and in Passchendaele I bought "De oorlog in Prent" by Jan Feith.

The book was published in Amsterdam in May 1915 (Scheltens & Giltay). As Holland was a neutral country during WWI, the author's point of view is "neutral" too. The subtitle of the book sounds "caricatures from the different countries". There are nine chapters in the book (190 pages): 1. The allegory of war 2. the history of the war 3. what one reproaches the other 4. ruined cities 5. their armed forces 6. war press in the caricature 7. sport as a motive of war 8. leaders of war 9. about neutrality and neutrals.

The book shows a selection of cartoons and caricatures published in newpapers and magazines in the different countries in Europe and the United States (Punch, Simplicissimus, Jugend, The Bystander, Kladderadatsch, Le Matin, Evening Sun, Avanti, Nebelspalter, etc. ) .
The coloured cover is a colour copy of another version of the book. The cover below, the original cover of this book is in black and white. I think this is the original edition of the book, but I am not sure. The edition with the yellow coloured cover can be a later one. If someone can help me find out, let me know.

Learn more:
Armistice Day 2010 - Brushes and Bayonets

Jan Feith on Wikipedia
Jan Feith on Lambiek.net
De Oorlog in Prent (info on Google Books)

Irish Cartoonist Terry Willers passed away (1935 - 2011)

Tribute by JMB

British-born, Terry Willers lived in Ireland for more than 40 years. He died, aged 76, in his home in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, on November 8th.
Award-winning cartoonist he worked on RTÉ television’s Hall’s Pictorial Weekly and for numerous Irish publications

As a teenager he got his first job working on the Disney comic in London and later worked for the Dutch Marten Toonder studios in the 1960s. He worked on a number of newspaper strips which appeared in various European countries. He won the Jacob’s Award in 1975 for his work on Hall’s Pictorial Weekly. His cartoons featured on the Mike Murphy Show and he created strips for the Evening Herald in the 1990s. He was chairman of the International Cartoon Festivals in Rathdrum (1992-94)

Irish Times cartoonist Martyn Turner paid tribute to his counterpart and friend.
“He was always very happy and full of jokes and was an incredibly talented artist. Most cartoonists become cartoonists because they have to… but Terry could draw anything and everything. In many ways he was an artist more than he was a cartoonist.”

Terry Willers - At Pub

Terry Willers - Touring in Ireland

Terry Willers - Irish Rugby (scan of the original cartoon)

Read more:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1111/willerst.html

See also:
Terry Willers on Lambiek.net
Irish Comic News

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Parodies and pastiches

I really enjoyed this book. It's in the collection of the ECC library. Parodies & Pastiches aus der Sammlung Karikaturen & Cartoons Basel by Jürg Spahr (Basel, 1991, ISBN 3-856-16-043-4). Many cartoons are a parody and sometimes a pastiche, and in fact, that's what's cartooning is about. The book is a fine collection of parodies and  pastiches. It is published as a hommage by the Christoph Merian Stiftung to the founder of the caricature and cartoon collection in Basel (Swiss), Dieter Burckhardt (1914-1991).

What's the difference between a parody and a pastiche? Here are the definitions I found:


A parody is a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
It's also the genre of literary composition represented by such imitations.
A bit broader, it's any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.

A pastiche is a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.Also, it is an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.
(source: dictionary.com)

Martial Leiter and Jean-Jacques Loup "Frankensteins dreams"

Arnold Roth - "I'm going to call it 'Oops' "

Wolf Barth - Loakoon - Feuerwehr

Jerzy Flisak  and GIN

Feggo - Mondrian's road sign

Napoleon, after J.L. David - Gradimir Smudja

Mondrians Palette and Begegnung mit Paul Klee, - Caulos

Pointillism parodie - Sergey Tunin

Vincent van Gogh  at the hairdresser

Venus von Milo - Jugoslav Vlahovic

Learn more:
Cartoonmuseum Basel

Playboy cartoons Eldon Dedini

see article: http://ecc-cartoonbooksclub.blogspot.com/2011/10/playboy-cartoons-orgy-of-playboys-eldon.html
on our blog.

Playboy Cartoons - An orgy of PLAYBOY's Eldon Dedini

I really don't know why ;-) but one of the pages with most hits on our blog is the article "Playboy Cartoons - Phil Interlandi".
Here is some more Playboy stuff, coming from the book An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini (Fantagraphics Books, 2006, ISBN10 1-56097-727-2, 240 p., full-color)

It's the kind of high quality cartoon book I like. Cartoonist Eldon Dedini was born in 1921 and passed away in 2006.

"For over 45 years, Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects — from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints — Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend, evoking a bucolic sexually liberated paradise that leaves its reader lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant — and funny — gag panels of the past six decades. An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini includes Dedini: A Life In Cartoons, an exclusive documentary DVD directed by Anson Musselman, celebrating the life of the artist via interviews conducted with the artist in 1998 and again in 2005, painting a vivid portrait of a man who helped define the Playboy style of the swinging 1960s." (Fantagraphics Books)

"God! Your Jackson Pollock always puts me in a frenzy."

"The talk around Bethlehem is that we're Jesus freaks."

"This is all very well for you Roman soldiers, but what we Sabine
woman really need is a children's day-care center!"

"Give the peasants a tax rebate an they
behave like naughty little children"

"Is this something you learned on the cruisades?"

Learn more:
More funny erotic cartoons on our blog.

Dedini: A life of cartoons (Part 1) on YouTube (other parts also on YouTube)

Review on Parka Blogs

Florian Doru Chrihana : Satirische Idyllen

Last Friday I had the honour to meet the very kind Florian at the opening of his exhibition in the ECC. He brought along some copies of the book "Satirische Idyllen". This monography  (ISBN 978-3-86678-317-1,Kerber Art,2009) contains his work shown in the exhibition in the "Musée de la caricature" in Vianden, Luxemburg in 2009. Dieter and Gisela Burkamp, good friends of Florian, wrote an introduction. I read:  "Florian plays with our mind for images and like a magician he conjures pictures that are not lost for grotesque ideas and adventurous supplies of interpretation " and "This is an artist who did not only understand how to design the 'inner life' of ships as an engineer of shipbuilding but who also looks into the 'inner lives' of his fellow men knowingly, and he knows how to convey his ideas."
Great art, great cartoon book.

cover

Florian, signing the book,
Kruishoutem, 7 Oct 2011

Here are some pics of the exhibition in the ECC:

Ro Burms presenting the artist

Titanic

Venice (the person resembles the famous Belgian
standup comedian Bert Kruismans!)

Venice 

Learn more:
Florian Chrihana's Blog
Current exhibition of Florian at the ECC (Titanic, Venice, Snowman)
Museum of Caricature Vianden