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COLOR IN BLACK AND WHITE

Original artwork for coloring books: 1940s-1960s




bookstop
1.                     2.                     3.                     4.                    5.

booksbottom
6.                     7.                    8.                     9.                    10.




woody

1. Woody Woodpecker and Oswald the Rabbit, 1946



topcat1

2. Top Cat, 1962



blondie

3. Blondie and Dagwood, 1954



boris

4. Boris Badenov, 1960



dishonest

5. Dishonest John, 1962



moose

6. Bullwinkle Moose, 1960



wilma

7. Wilma Flintstone, 1962



smallmoose

8. Bullwinkle Moose, 1960



quickdraw

9. Quickdraw McGraw, 1959



cat2

10. Top Cat, 1962



NOTE ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Western Publishing Company (Whitman) had a virtual lock on any “authorized” cartoon, comic, movie or TV character published in coloring books, activity books or books in general, that extended from the 1940s through the 1960s. Any purchaser of such books was extremely fortunate because the artists used for these books were top-flight animators, background artists or comic illustrators par supreme. Most had tie-ins to the characters they were drawing i. e., Walter Lantz animators were used on Woody Woodpecker, Warner Bros. animators on Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig, etc.

Original artwork courtesy of the Burton Pressboard collection


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