SUPER SERVICE STATION MAGAZINES

FLEA MARKET FRIDAYS #30

I'm not into gas or oil collectibles, but I picked up a bunch of 1960's Super Service Station mags the other day because they have some great ads. I like to mine old magazines for ad characters and these have a bunch.


So far I've only scanned a few ads and these are the ad characters I found from the 1963 issues.








If you want to see the full size ads that they came from click on any of these links to my flickr page.

1963 Federal-Mogul Service Ad
1963 Ammco Ad
1963 Oval-Flo Muffler Ad
1963 McCord Ad
1963 Maremont Muffler Ad
1963 Hastings Ad
1963 Dill Tire Valve Ad

FUNNY FACE DRINK-MIX CHARACTERS TO BE RESURRECTED

I almost spit out my Kool-Aid when I read some good news!

Thanks to this good news I might have a chance to spit out some Funny Face in the near future if Renegade Animation is able to sell a pilot featuring our old fruit flavored friends of Funny Face. That’s right according to Cartoon Brew Renegade has snagged the rights to the Funny Face characters who were popular during the 60's and 70's as a fruit flavored drink-mix made by Pillsbury.

Hopefully this will be picked up and become a popular weekly cartoon. Besides seeing the Funny Face gang in an animated series it would be very cool to see it come back as a drink-mix again. Heck, if it’s big-time popular maybe the characters will have their own cereal and Pez dispensers and ice cream bars and action figures and sneakers and bed sheets and. . . Ok, I’m getting ahead of myself, but all this would be very cool!

To wet your whistle for Funny Face check out these amazing Funny Face collections from Jim Rash - his flickr and his website. Also check out Dan Goodsell's collection at his website.

Here's some fun old commercials -





Thanks goes to Brandon and Dan for the heads up on this important breaking news!

INTRODUCING MONSTER MOTEL

I decided to play Dr. Frankenstein and bring three of my monster drawings to life in the form of these simple animation shorts.

RICK BAKER GOES BANANAS WITH STAR WARS MASKS

This article is from Bananas #15, a kids mag from 1977. Check out those Star Wars cantina creatures that Rick Baker is showing off.



Be sure to click on the pages to read the article.

MR TOAST VISITS MISSOURI

We played host to Mr Toast during his stay in Missouri. Mr Toast is the crusted creation of artist Dan Goodsell and this lovable slab of bread has been on tour across the USA. You can see the rest of the photos at a sampler of things.

TOM'S MONKEY JUNGLE BROCHURE

Back in February I posted a few souvenirs from Tom's Monkey Jungle that was once in Eldon, Missouri. Recently I ran across the brochure from this classic tourist trap!

JIM MOONEY R.I.P.

The comic’s world lost another wonderful talent and this time it was Jim Mooney. An amazing artist that has drawn almost every DC and Marvel character since he started working during the golden age of comics. He is best known for his work on Supergirl, Dial H For Hero, Man-Thing and Spider-Man.

I really enjoyed his work inking Al Milgrom on Spectacular Spider-Man back in the 80's, especially during those Black Cat issues.

I had the pleasure of meeting gentleman Jim Mooney twice at two conventions. Once in the early 90's and again in 2005. The piece below is a commission that the first lady got for me back in 2002 and it’s one of my favorite pieces of artwork in my collection.

Read this write up by Mark Evanier.

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY

It was perfect timing that I found these old 1950's Adams pranks last week.

Have a pranked filled fun silly time today! For some perfect April Fools reading check out the book Life of the Party A Visual History of The S.S. Adams Company Makers of Pranks & Magic For 100 Years by Kirk Demarais.