Daily post 15 Sep 2007 07:52 am
Betty on Parade
- A couple of years ago, I walked past Muhammad Ali on 57th Street. As expected, there was a crowd approaching him asking for autographs. I noticed what Ali did. In his breast pocket, he had a number of business cards that he’d signed, and he passed these out. (I’m sorry now that I didn’t ask for one.)
As I noted back a week or so, I have some Grim Natwick drawn Betty Boop pictures. He did them in the early 70′s to pass onto interviewers, fans, others who asked for them. I suppose this was somewhat similar to Muhammad Ali’s prepared autographs. It saved Grim the task of drawing Betty on the spot.
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Here’s one of these cartoons he did for what is obviously the Bicentennial (which dates the cartoon from 1976.) I thought of posting this for Labor Day, but the two holidays didn’t really match. Happy Fourth of July !
on 17 Sep 2007 at 2:50 pm 1.Stephen Worth said …
I think those were made for Grim by Duane Crowther at Duck Soup Produckions. There was a nice naked one too!
See ya
Steve
on 18 Sep 2007 at 3:23 pm 2.Michael said …
The drawings and cels I have were done by Grim, himself, and some were ink & painted by a well known NY inker/painter. She’s still around, and I know these were done in NY in the 1970′s. Grim used copies of those when he went to LA where I guess he made more copies. Those, I assume, are the ones Duane Crowther’s group made.
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