Daily post &Top Cel 23 Jan 2013 08:56 am
Top Cel – 2
- It’s 1961-1962, and we return to Vinnie Caffarelli‘s collection of Top Cel, the u-nion’s monthly newsletter. As I wrote last week, the interest in this period of the publication is that the editor, animator Ed Smith, brought a lot of great graphics to the publication, and they really stood out. These were collector’s items for a lot of the membership, and I’m glad Vinnie had saved these so that I can share them with you. I have a collection of them that dates back a bit earlier, but all those have been in storage for some time and I can’t easily get to them.
We have in this group something that seems to have been fairly regular, the wraparound cover. The first and last pages of the newsletter unfold to be one long drawing. I’ve attached both pages and turn them on their side so they can be properly seen.
A lot ow work went into putting these newsletters together, so kudos to Ed Smith for having done such a great job.
August 1961 – drawing by Ed Smith
1b 
1c
1d 
1e
1f
October 1961 – drawing by Len Glasser
2b 
2c
2d
3a
Novemeber 1961 – drawing by Dolores Cannata
3b 
3c
3d
December 1961 – drawing unsigned (?)
4b 
4c
4d
5a-d
April 1962 – drawing by Len Glasser
5b 
5c
6a-d
June 1962, drawing by Karl Fischer
6b 6c
7a-d
May 1962, drawing by Bill Feigenbaum
7b 
7c
8a
July 1962, drawing by Len Glasser
8b 
8c
8d
9a-d
August 1962, drawing by C. R. (?) possibly Cliff Roberts
9b 
9c
10a
September 1962, drawing by Karl Fischer
10b 
c
10d
11a-d
October 1962, drawing unsigned (?)
I wish these great drawings were better labeled.
11b 
c
on 23 Jan 2013 at 4:24 pm 1.Tom Minton said …
Wonder if Harry E. Smith’s “Animaglyph” process later became the “Aniforms” process? The description in the August 1961 Top Cel (upper left quadrant of the page) sounds somewhat similar.