Sansabelt is actually making a comeback. Perchance the advertisement is not completely real, but Eldridge Cleaver DID in fact market the “front and center” design below. What more can be said. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Category: advertising
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These wonderful vintage trade advertisements offer more than the reality, no doubt, but are all the better for it.
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By my talented friend Andy:
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A twisted take on the proliferation of cutesy holiday ads, by the #1 horror magazine!
Source
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We’ve all seen the Michelin Man…this happy go lucky character who looks like a sweet cross between the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a mummy.
Well he wasn’t always so sweet. Let’s take a journey back in time, shall we?
1950:
1912:
Early 1900s:
Read about it and see more (horrifying) pictures here!
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And now a little installment of DG before I go down the medical rabbit hole for an indeterminate period of time.
Man, Edmund’s been talking for a LONG time.
Start ’em young.
Gorgeous vintage Vogue cover by Salvador Dali.
THINK your way to visible virility!
Very little info on this, but wow…
What puffer cake has seen cannot be unseen.
I love this because the skeleton can either be reaching for OR releasing the heart, depending on the eye of the beholder.
The Barbie Dream Snake:
If a higher power exists, I’m sure it speaks through cats exclusively, actually.
“Who you callin’ chicken?”
I wish this were an actual vintage piece.
Tip from the SheWalksSoftly school of psychology: If someone hurts your feelings, sending a greeting card with one of the worst puns on earth is not likely to remedy the relationship.
Now, let’s everybody hope that the doctors have an ALL CHOCOLATE treatment planned for me next week.
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Alpha, much? (Reminds me of Max Power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3zdkmw2E4)
This book is just a blank page with a single word: DON’T.
Love this little man’s style…
Child “guidance,” toward the ever important world of trans fats.
Holy exploding cloaca! Who would brand their product this way?
“With victim.”
Yes, yes and yes.
Totally agreed.
Is it me, or do you feel a draft?
This story has all of my favorite things!
Answer to the age-old problem.
Put a bird in it.
Excellent grammar lesson.
Hope you are all feeling beautiful today.
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Posted by proxy from Dana’s “stuff to blog” queue while she is on medical hiatus. She reads and appreciates all comments…and apologizes for not being able to respond at the moment.
Pete Hawley’s Halloween Monsters are the most adorable monsters I have seen. Dana thought so too, and here you have them. They are probably an American Greetings punch-out set from the 1960’s, at the height of the Monster Craze.
About the best background and overview we can share about the illustrator is contained here. Please enjoy the print ads and wonderful illustrations he has done.
Thank you! The Proxy Blogger.
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Let’s take a moment to focus on the kitschy, cutesy iconic marketing creations of Campbell’s.
Brace yourself…here they come…
The Campbell Kids have been selling Campbell’s Soup since 1904 when Grace Wiederseim Drayton, an illustrator and writer, added some sketches of children to her husband’s advertising layout for a Campbell’s condensed soup. The Campbell advertising agents loved the child appeal and choose Mrs. Wiederseim’s sketches as trademarks. –Source
I’m not sure what prompted Ms. Drayton to draw them as if they were hopped up on too much Adderall, but they certainly make an impression.
Yes, they are staring right into the recesses of your soul, burning a hole in your brain…
The dolls are equally terrifying, yet I’d kind of like to have one (or two). I will leave them staring at unsuspecting guests when I step out of the room.
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Brains: it’s what’s for dinner.
And speaking of, who thought a grinning peanut grinding his own brain out onto a platter was…a great idea for a product? I envision a young Hannibal Lecter having a lovely time with this. Don’t get me wrong. I’d like one.
For the one time every few years that I need to physically remove a staple:
What actually happens when you have a toothache. Next time you are bothered, understand that it is just the worms, demons and ghosts acting up beneath your enamel.
Mid-century America presents NARCISSISM: THE DRESS.
I don’t. But I’ve heard the stories.
Ohhhhhh…so that’s how you get a man. You glue him down! I’ve been doing it wrong.
A real book; I kid you not:
When a man is asked what is perfectly irresistible I highly doubt “wool mantilla” is the first item that comes to mind (click picture to enlarge).
The quote that made my week (thanks, Casey):
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