Aren't these just the cutest drawings?

This is from a Little Golden Book called "Never Pat a Bear - A Book About Signs" with illustrations by Art Seiden. It was published in 1971 and the whole thing has been scanned and featured on the wonderful blog, Golden Gems.

http://goldengems.blogspot.com/2009/01/coming-tomorrownever-poke-bear.html

Like the drawings of PD Eastman, these pictures just make me smile.

Since it's "a book about signs," there's a lot of really fun hand lettering all through the book...

There are about a kajillion more illustrated treats like this at the Golden Gems blog. For example, there's this book (also illustrated by Art Seiden) called, "The Spotted Dotted Puppy."

Take a fun ride over there at:

http://goldengems.blogspot.com

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or there's also Golden Gems on Flickr at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/talesofwhoa/sets/72157610820097436/

VERY Funny Post-it note Improvisational Jam Comic from a couple of NickToons Pals

It isn't often that I laugh out loud while reading comics, but this comic jam (drawn on 39 Post-It notes) from cartoonists Chris Allison and Ryan Kramer is just too good to be missed!

Fantastically unhinged cartoon one-upsmanship,
and just plain drop-dead fun!

...and these are just two random drawings
out of the sequence of 39!

I got to know Chris and Ryan when I was at Nickelodeon last year drawing storyboards for The Mighty B!'s first season. If these guys are the future of animation, we're all in for a treat.

See all the comic insanity from start to finish at:
http://chrisallison.blogspot.com/2009/01/improv-comic.html