Karl Arnold

Let’s start off with more Fleischer promotional art. Why do I find these so fascinating? Perhaps because they echo a time that is so definitely over, yet through these ads, it speaks, it winks, it’s going about its business, like the 1930s never ended.

I mean, place the ads in context: Marilyn Monroe is a little kid. World War II hasn’t started yet. Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland, Ca. The board game, Monopoly debuts.

These ads are like insects encased in amber.

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Fantaisie d’Automne/Les Champignons. Illustration by George Barbier from LA VIE PARISIENNE, 1916.

An Ad by Achille Mauzan such a weird artist but that’s part of the appeal and why his work is so charming.

Early modern girls as portrayed by Katsuzi Matsumoto. Japanese Girl's Magazine "Shoujo Gaho" prize-winning postcards.

'To the country where the cherry blossoms bloom and my mother lives'.

松本かつぢ 初期のモダンガール 少女画報の懸賞絵葉書。

『櫻咲く母います國へ』

Some Wonderfully Cartoony Illustration’s by Italian Cartoonist Antonio Rubio I love Rubio’s style it’s so cartoonish and nightmarish but in a fun way!

'Priestess' by Erte, (1892 - 1990)

JC Leyendecker

title unknown, 1922

Moomin figures created in the 70's by Atelier Fauni