I googled the painting… It’s one of a series called “In the City”, but it doesn’t say which city.
However, scrolling through ±37,246 of his paintings (or maybe a couple dozen) on a gallery site, I saw one with some of the same stuff, including the tower, titled “Toronto, Yonge and Queen” …
Which (surprise!) turns out to be an actual intersection in Toronto. Not this intersection, but at least places this in Toronto.
He didn’t label either city, no doubt expecting the viewer to recognize the landmarks.
San Francisco just happens to have landmarks that are better known, even internationally, and to people who’ve only seen them printed on kitchy dish towels and “Hawaiian” shirts.
Maybe the people in Toronto are doing a LOT of drugs nowadays so it even affects the buildings???
Fun stuff to bring together so many icons of a city. I’m sure the artist had to pick and choose what to include (and exclude). And I’m sure that critics beat up on him for his inclusions / exclusions. That’s what makes him an artist and also makes them what they are.
This, to my totally untrained eye and with no qualifications whatsoever to justify the attempt, looks like sequential images of the same runner as he starts his sprint down the track.
My search says it’s one of four such pages, over from each issue of a special Buck Rogers series, printed in 1951… though that site says they’re actually newspaper reprints, without specifying dates or titles.
I downloaded the other three… I didn’t want to post or link to them unless Nighthawks isn’t planning to post them himself. Just let me know, NH.
…
I also ran into another site where there was a debate, in 2023, over what was meant in 1951 by T-cables.
The likeliest candidate, to some, was a type of twisted pair cable that had already been around since the 1940s…. others thought it had to be newer technology, but couldn’t agree on what, or whether it existed in 2023.
I’m not quite techy enough to follow that stuff… I mean I understand what they’re saying but I’m unfamiliar with the equipmentt they’re talking about.
But I did notice that in 1951 they couldn’t predict satellites or the Internet for transmitting programming.
I found this image being sold as a clipping from the March 1918 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine, with no identification of the artist or cartoonist.
But the style looked familiar.
Then I noticed it’s signed F.Fox in the lower right corner.
That would be Fontaine Fox (I googled him to make sure)… Creator of Toonerville Folks, of which this is an example.
Toonerville Folks became one of the earliest cartoons… Which led to the Toonerville Trolley 2-reel comedies.
In the 1930s, it became a series of live action films with kids… a rival to the Our Gang comedies, starring a young Mickey Rooney when he was still called Mickey McGuire.
Better not be a bunny you’re swooping in on. Happy³ will not be happy!
Has the posture of a buzzard. Not the most powerful talons I’ve ever seen.
Bunny might already be deceased.
Ninja Rabbit will nail his a$$.
The Killer Rabbit of Monty Python fame comes to mind…
Holy Hand Grenade, Batman!
I can’t recall his name but i know that style. Something with an M. French, i think.
Miguel Freas
A Toronto artist so maybe that’s the CN Tower? Nothing else to identify the city…
Must be.
I googled the painting… It’s one of a series called “In the City”, but it doesn’t say which city.
However, scrolling through ±37,246 of his paintings (or maybe a couple dozen) on a gallery site, I saw one with some of the same stuff, including the tower, titled “Toronto, Yonge and Queen” …
Which (surprise!) turns out to be an actual intersection in Toronto. Not this intersection, but at least places this in Toronto.
BTW it should come as no surprise that he also painted yesterday’s condensed view of San Francisco.
Actually it is a surprise that he painted one so distinctive and another so anonymous. Maybe a Canadian thing, eh?
I don’t think he intended any anonymity.
He didn’t label either city, no doubt expecting the viewer to recognize the landmarks.
San Francisco just happens to have landmarks that are better known, even internationally, and to people who’ve only seen them printed on kitchy dish towels and “Hawaiian” shirts.
Being Canadian, though, I’m sure he’s sorry. 😁
Maybe the people in Toronto are doing a LOT of drugs nowadays so it even affects the buildings???
Fun stuff to bring together so many icons of a city. I’m sure the artist had to pick and choose what to include (and exclude). And I’m sure that critics beat up on him for his inclusions / exclusions. That’s what makes him an artist and also makes them what they are.
That does look like the CN tower, just to the left of center.
I’m sure it is.
I’ve seen him somewhere before…
He pops up every now and then.
He looked familiar to me, but not quite familiar enough…
So I searched the image, and this time Google actually identified the person.
It’s supposed to be PM Modi, of India.
I’m not hiding that in a spoiler box, cos for one thing, i doubt he’s that familiar to most of us…
And also cos I don’t see these hidden images as a quiz.
Hard enough to see, even if you already know who they are.
,,
I think I had this one once!
Swerve right ASAP and make it go through the power lines.
Wouldn’t your car immediately get stuck in the grass?
“only when it’s funny”
Where’s the spoiler alert?
Looks more like it’s from behind than from beyond.
Then again, “The Hand from Behind” doesn’t work either.
“The Hand from Another World?”
“The Hand from Beyond Understanding?”
Maybe just “Gotcha!!!”
..
Boo! Got any treats?
I hate it when people dog-ear a book.
good one, Hap !
How to Spoil Your Dog books are right here.
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So, who arrived first, the runners or the shadows?
Depends where the finish line is.
The guy at the top is gonna get called back for jumping the gun!
This, to my totally untrained eye and with no qualifications whatsoever to justify the attempt, looks like sequential images of the same runner as he starts his sprint down the track.
Me too. If they’re even real.
Pretty sure the shadows are augmented.
Absolutely! The shadows should blur out as the get further from the source…
,,,
I wonder when this was drawn?
Me too.
yeah, me also—-my guess it was in the 50s or early 60s
Oh boy! I’m going to live a few thousand years!
Four outoffive ain’t bad.
I’m intrigued by the weekly plastic suit idea. But I will need to have ALL the details on how it works.
My search says it’s one of four such pages, over from each issue of a special Buck Rogers series, printed in 1951… though that site says they’re actually newspaper reprints, without specifying dates or titles.
I downloaded the other three… I didn’t want to post or link to them unless Nighthawks isn’t planning to post them himself. Just let me know, NH.
…
I also ran into another site where there was a debate, in 2023, over what was meant in 1951 by T-cables.
The likeliest candidate, to some, was a type of twisted pair cable that had already been around since the 1940s…. others thought it had to be newer technology, but couldn’t agree on what, or whether it existed in 2023.
I’m not quite techy enough to follow that stuff… I mean I understand what they’re saying but I’m unfamiliar with the equipmentt they’re talking about.
But I did notice that in 1951 they couldn’t predict satellites or the Internet for transmitting programming.
I hate Skuas!
Love triangle?
circle of protection
? The Skua is trying to drag off the penguin chick for supper…
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while the male mail carrier is boozing it up at the tavern
He is?
well, that’s what we used to do
I found this image being sold as a clipping from the March 1918 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine, with no identification of the artist or cartoonist.
But the style looked familiar.
Then I noticed it’s signed F.Fox in the lower right corner.
That would be Fontaine Fox (I googled him to make sure)… Creator of Toonerville Folks, of which this is an example.
Toonerville Folks became one of the earliest cartoons… Which led to the Toonerville Trolley 2-reel comedies.
In the 1930s, it became a series of live action films with kids… a rival to the Our Gang comedies, starring a young Mickey Rooney when he was still called Mickey McGuire.
Louisville -1906
The trolley bus was nicknamesd “The Louisville Slug…”
Does finding the Loch Ness Monster count?
Definitely.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m seeing more caterpillars than chameleons…
I was seeing shrimp.
I got him! Just before i was going to quit.
I found several candidates for a crocodilian before I settled on one in particular. I will have to await confirmation of my success.
Okay, since you asked….
Didja happen to find
That’s him!
Misread it at first and thought I had to find 6 Crocs.
Make mine a Chi Late.
Claude’s order: “A medium coffee with room for cream.”
Snow doggles.
Ski instructor.
Super cool