Sunday, March 08, 2015

CARTOON SCULPTURES

A friend let me take a few pictures of his porcelain cartoon figures. These used to sell at greeting card stores and gift shops of all kinds.


What better gift than a ceramic string holder?


Here's (above) a Rocky and Bullwinkle ceramic bank.


Wow! What a nice souvenir of The Stork Club!


Hmmmm....maybe this Yogi is varnished wood, I'm not sure.


This one is definitely porcelain! It's (above) Esquire magazine's Dapper Gentleman character.

6 comments:

mike fontanelli said...

Hey Eddie - the Woody Woodpecker string holder is actually chalkware, not ceramic. Also, the Esky figure is composition, not porcelain. The Stork Club placeholder doesn't actually feature the little Toonerville Trolley/Mickey McGuire figure. (I just put it there because I ran out of shelf space.)

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Mike: I'm sorry to hear that the little guy was an add-on to the stork scupture. The two figures work great together!

Jorge Garrido said...

Eddie any interesting memories or stories about Sam Simon?

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Jorge: I didn't know Sam died til you just told me. That's horrible news. I used to love storyboarding from his scripts at Filmation. A number of times I asked him how he got so good and he always answered that he owed everything to watching Barney Miller on TV.

Sam's best friend at Filmation was his school buddy, Rich Fogel. If Rich writes something about Sam for the net it's sure to be worth reading.

Tom Minton says Sam contributed to the creation of Jim Carey's "Duck Factory" show and got ideas from watching how enthusiastic I was about working on my first studio job. Wow! If that's true then I'm happy to have been helpful. Sam certainly made my job more fun.

Jack F said...

I'm interested in the Red Hot Riding Hood sculpture in the background of the Rocky and Bullwinkle bank.

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Jack: Those sold widely about 15 years ago and I'll bet someone is sellig new ones (or similar ones) even now on the net. Try eBay.