RICORDANDO DUANE BRYERS, IL CENTENARIO DELL’ARIZONA!

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Ecco, sì.
Era lui, il centenario dell’Arizona, e se n’è andato da poco, il 1° giugno; avrebbe compiuto fra un mese tanti anni quanti i dalmati della famosa Carica.
Ribadisco la sua presenza a distanza di una settimana dalla presentazione fattane in questo blog.

Era il pittor-illustratore Duane Bryers; non si può pretendere che in Italia conosciamo tutti gli artisti di Oltreoceano, lui compreso. Era particolarmente abile nel disegno delle donnine (pin-up), benché non avesse la fama di un Vargas o di un Aslan.

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Il cronista Kimberly Matas del giornale Arizona Daily Star ne ha sintetizzato a grandi linee le tappe della vita affascinante e riportando il seguente giudizio critico:

Hilda_sunbathing_crop“He was a terrific artist. He had varied interests in art from the very modern to the Masters. He was very knowledgeable in all facets of art,” said Tucsonan Stuart Johnson, owner of Settlers West Galleries. He began showing Bryers’ work in 1977.

“Most of the paintings had a tinge of humor with them. They always kind of made you smile when you looked at the painting,” Johnson said.

That quality was most evident with the artist’s happy-go-lucky calendar girls. Bryers was the Norman Rockwell of pinup art, with his zaftig beauty, the oft-bikini-clad “Hilda,” taking center canvas. He began producing his Hilda collection in the mid-1950s.

“I got the idea for a plumpy gal pinup and thought I’d like to make it into a calendar series,” Bryers said. “But how was I going to sell a plump girl?”

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He took his series to Brown & Bigelow, then the country’s top calendar maker, and “they reluctantly put it in the line and figured it would last a short time,” he said. “It went on for 36 years.”

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DUANE BRYERS (American b.1911). Hilda, calendar illustration

Come i più arguti visitors avranno certamente capito, Bryers era divenuto famoso (almeno dalle parti sue) come illustratore di un personaggio femminile simpatico quanto solo realtivamente sexy: la svampita quanto audace Hilda, sorta di Angela Lansbury ante litteram, dipinta con vesti succinte in pose alquanto buffe.

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  • Ruby Sunday |

    Dopo mezzo secolo vissuto da collezionista, l’anzianotto Ken McDaniel cessa e vende tutto.
    Ecco cosa scrive.
    Qualche interessato?
    I am a retired collector now selling my approximate 3770 issue color comic and black/white comic magazine collection.
    Approximately 584 of these are Walt Disney funny animal comic items from various publishers with 95% or better containing interior art by CARL BARKS and/or DON ROSA. The vast majority of the Barks stories are reprints and Rosa’s stories are first appearance. I have pulled a score or so of my very favorite stories for permanent retention and these are not included. Average condition is Fine or better; many were bought new off the newstands. Barks and Rosa page counts and reference back to original publication appearance are on the file.
    These comics have been conservatively graded by me–condition guaranteed,; they are bagged, boarded, and have been in storage for the most part for decades. These are priced at moderate prices and are available one-by-one or in a group. Discounts would be available for large orders.
    The other 3,000 plus issues are the wonderful works of Wally Wood, Al Toth, Al Williamson, Alex Nino, Richard Corben, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, Nestor Redondo, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, John Severin, Russ Heath, Gottfredson, P Gulacy, Bernie Wrighton, Bob Powell, Rudy Nebres, and scores more of the best artists working between late 1940’s and about 1990.
    The black and white issues include long runs of Creepy, Eerie, Spirit, Psycho, Unknown Worlds of SF, Savage Sword of Conan, Savage Tales, Howard the Duck, 1984/1994, Vampirela, etc.
    I am located in Alabama, in southern USA. I have a master list on Excel and I have a Walt Disney sub-list on Excel; I could e-mail as an attachment either/both to serious-in-buying persons. I also have a rudimentary website http://www.topnotchfiction.com that includes some 12,000 paper collectibles, but which has not been updated lately for sales. Please ignore the detective pulp list as most have been sold and the balance I will soon list on Ebay. I sell from time-to-time as “lagri84” on Ebay.
    Any and all contact should be made to me at decliningreturns@gmail.com rather than the email address listed on the website.
    I pack very carefully, ship internationally, and have shipped to England, Australia, New Zealand, France, Japan, Belgium, and Singapore.
    Sale of items will run through the second week of August only. After that they will not be available on the market.
    regards from a 50 year period collector (NOT a dealer),
    Ken McDaniel…

  • Luca |

    OK. Mario, ti tengo d’occhio!
    Buon quelcherresta della calda domenica!
    L.

  • mario benenati |

    OT. Buona domenica a tutti.
    Per Luca: sto preparando un email da inviarti domani, occhio alle email.

  • Vanessa |

    Spero che il mio nuovo iphone sia riuscito a ottemperare alla più che fondamentale attività, e cioè mandare i messaggi… sono mooolto, più che impedita nel maneggiare quel cosino, se me lo perdo nella borsa non lo troverò mai più, sicuro! E’ davvero piccino, ma molto grazioso, lo volevo col flip, ma non fa le fotine. Siamo in dirittura però per la digitale, così poi ci mandiamo le polaroid di noi con le fette di cetriolo in faccia, e il Martini alla D. Parker nella mano!

  • Vanessa |

    Spero che il mio nuovo iphone sia riuscito a ottemperare alla più che fondamentale attività, e cioè mandare i messaggi… sono mooolto, più che impedita nel maneggiare quel cosino, se me lo perdo nella borsa non lo troverò mai più, sicuro! E’ davvero piccino, ma molto grazioso, lo volevo col flip, ma non fa le fotine. Siamo in dirittura però per la digitale, così poi ci mandiamo le polaroid di noi con le fette di cetriolo in faccia, e il Martini alla D. Parker nella mano!

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