X-Xing - aka: drawing doodles during down-time

One of the best times for me to get some doodling done is while waiting for an animatic screening or a storyboard pitch to get started. I always grab a slice of paper and a pen, pencil or marker before heading into the conference room; Anytime you're waiting for a big group of people to assemble you can count on having a few minutes of down-time.

Being in the middle of my work day, I'm totally in drawing mode, but since I'm away from my desk I all of a sudden feel free to just let the drawing take me where it will. It's a little improvisational "cartoon jazz" that yields surprising results simply because there's no "goal" other than the love of drawing. Y'know…like when we used to draw for FUN.

I scanned a bunch of these scribbles recently and I'll be posting a bunch in the coming days. Enjoy!

Captain Tootsie Full-Length Comic Book Story by Captain Marvel's C.C. Beck Studio

The greatest product placement hero in comic book history was Captain Tootsie, created and produced by the CC Beck studio (the same folks that gave us all those great adventures of the original Fawcett comics' Captain Marvel), and published in two issues by Toby press in October and December of 1950.

This 12-pager is from The Adventures of Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion #2

You can click on any one of these pages to open up
a Captain Tootsie-sized full page comic book scan!

Find out more about Captain Tootsie at:

Toonopedia entry on Captain Tootsie

Museum of Comic Book Advertising Tootsie Roll Theater

Captain Tootsie Comic Book Ads
Oddball Comics on Captain Tootsie

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Ger Appledorn from Those Fabuleous Fifties has posted a whole buncha "Captain Tootsie" comic book scans. These were Tootsie Roll advertisements in comic book format from the pen of C.C. Beck and the same crew that brought us the classic Captain Marvel comics from Fawcett in the 1940's and 50's.

 

They're like those Hostess Twinkies and Fruit Pie ads from the seventies, but with their own original super-hero.

Go check 'em out --
they're chock-full of cartoony goodness!

Captain Tootsie Comic Book Ads

More Frank Frazetta Funny Animal Comics – Bruno the Bear 1949

Bruno the Bear by Frank “Fritz” Frazetta from Happy Comics #32 July 1949

…and here’s a couple of beautiful Frazetta illustrations from the obligatory text pages from the same comic…
…and make sure to Cartoon squirrel pirate Frank Frazetta Daffy & Dilly comics in case you missed it…
Daffy & Dilly – pirate squirrel comics by Frazetta
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and enjoy more Frazetta funny animal comics here…
Frazetta funny animal comics Dodger the Squirrel