Video: H.A. and Margret Rey and CURIOUS GEORGE

(Above: H. A. Rey, unpublished drawing, United States, c. 1950s-60s, pencil on paper. H. A. & Margret Rey Papers, de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi via the Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey site.)


From a September 16, 2012 episode of CBS Sunday Morning: here's the story of H.A. and Margret Rey, who fled the Nazis in 1940, on bicycle, with the first CURIOUS GEORGE manuscript. Included is an interview with Margret from 1996.

"We did only what we liked, and by nice coincidence the children liked the same thing."

Matt Jones: Drawing San Francisco

Above sketch copyright Matt Jones.


Look around. If you are in San Francisco, and if you see a guy who is sketching, go over and say hi for me. It'll be Pixar's Matt Jones. How can you tell? If his sketches are amazing. That's how.

Matt shares some of his sketches as he walks around town. Great work, as ever. Dig that vibrant line! Thanks for this, Matt.

Post-War Gag Cartoonists

Above cartoon by Tom Hudson for  Collier's. 

My friend Ger Apeldoorn shows us some samples of the post-war "mid-range" gag cartoonists.

"Dependable, but maybe a bit safe. They were often not classy enough for The New Yorker and not dirty enough for the girlie magazines (although most of them ended up there in the late fifties)."

Well, I don't know if they were classy or not. Take a look at the above link and see for yourself. But these guys -- Colin Allen, Bo Brown, Tom Henderson, Tom Hudson, Henry Syverson -- were major hitters, with their recognizable cartoons appearing regularly in high circulation, mainstream weekly and monthly magazines like Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post.