This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “spent”. (This is one of two illustrations I did for this topic. HERE is the other.) “If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.” Will Rogers
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “spent”. (This is one of two illustrations I did for this topic. HERE is the other.) “I once spent a year in Philadelphia. I think it was on a Sunday.” W. C. Fields
This week’s challenge word on Illustration Friday is “spooky”. (This is the third illustration I’ve done for this week’s word. HERE is the first and HERE is the second.) After a failed attempt at becoming an opera singer in the style of Paul Robeson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins settled on playing piano and singing standard blues. …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “spooky”. (This is the second entry for this topic. Click HERE for entry number one and HERE for entry number three.) Careful observation of this family has revealed the members to be creepy, kooky and mysterious. Not to mention spooky. The conclusion is they are all together ooky.
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “spooky”. (This is the first of three entries for this topic. Click HERE for the second entry and HERE for the third.) Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost was not nearly as popular as his more famous cousin Casper. I think I can understand why.
Lindsay Lohan? Lightweight! Paris Hilton? Amateur! They can’t compare to Scotty Beckett. Scotty made his debut in the Our Gang comedies playing Spanky’s best friend for a little over a year until he left to star in feature films. He was replaced by Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer. From 1936 until the early 1950s, Scotty was one …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “transportation”. In 2001, after a buzz of preliminary publicity, a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle was introduced to the public. It was called the Segway. By 2006, approximately 23,500 had been sold. In December 2009, British billionaire Jimi Heselden bought the company Segway Inc. On September 26, 2010, …
Wallace Wood began his influential career in art as an apprentice under several of his own influences, Will Eisner and George Wunder, who had taken over the popular comic Terry and the Pirates from creator Milton Caniff. Wallace, a graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts. soon moved on to famed horror comic publisher …
After a full week of the draining drudgery of elementary school, there was nothing I liked better than spending Saturday afternoon at a movie matinee. I’d call up a bunch of friends from school and we’d hastily make plans to meet at the nearby Leo Theater or the Orleans, which was a little farther away. …
When she was just sixteen, blond-haired, blue-eyed bombshell Barbara Pepper was chosen to be a Ziegfeld Girl on Broadway. That was the springboard she needed to start her career in show business. Soon, she and friend, fellow Ziegfeld girl Lucille Ball, were chosen to join the Goldwyn Girls, as contract group of female dancers at …
