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Here here!

That's a very flattering statement, and consequently it's music to my ears. Thanks a lot and then some.

Many thanks for your comment, and appreciation of Abner Graboff's marvellous images.

Thanks for the comment. I get the feeling they are actually laughing at us most of the time, but they just don't care to show it.

❤❤❤ I agree wholeheartedly ❤

Many thanks for your appreciative comment - it's good to know I'm doing something right.

Just minutes ago, I've treated myself to the "Cats Can Do" and "The Old Lady", can't hardly wait for the books to arrive ;)

Thanks for your comment - and I feel sure you'll enjoy the books.

I remember them as well

So was he a pioneer who inspired others, or was he just a very versatile and successful artist working in a common style? 🤔

An over supply of illustrators to meet the demand :-)

You are more than welcome, and thanks a lot for the comment.

How do you know this?

Give us ome facts and numbers, please. How man kids were inspired in what way back then - and how has that number been affected by modern media? In contrast how do you explain the immense amount of digital graphics and illustrations today which kids can potentially share with the world? How much has been lost?

@@peka__ I brought up children before digital media, and I've now got grandkids who are addicted to their smartphones, and the difference in having to use their own imagination - as opposed to having all the blanks filled in by whizzy-whiz digital graphics - is considerable. Digital media does have many positive aspects, but I don't think it helps foster creative thought and enjoyment. But that's just my opinion...

@@dstirl It's not just your opinion. It's completely right what you say. Sorry if I sounded cynical, but sometimes I get tired of even the justified criticism - and lots of kids these days are being curious and creative. And we tend to forget that even in the "good old days" many kids read books like these and still ended up bored, uninspired and neurotic. If today's media fails to inspire children, it is - as you say... the lack of blanks to fill - but it's also because many parents don't look out for the input their children get. And if children are succeeding in their formative years, it is because someone teaches them how to use media consciously - classical as well as new media. Thanks for having this conversation.

@@peka__ It's not about what they gain by either reading books or playing with a tablet. It's about what they lose. Books were a small part of a kid's life, tablets are an all encompassing sink hole of their time. Some are with them 90% of their time and get extremely anxious if they don't have them because they have been used as proxy caregivers by shit parents. Boredom, inspiration, curiosity.. nothing to do with the point being made. Those are subjective and temporal states of mind determined by countless factors, not psycho-behavioral realities of obssessive-compulsive patterns caused by overconsuming media, overstimulation, instant gratification, fixation, memory loss, social deviations and many other observed and studied issues cause by devices today. Not trying to be rude or anything, but the problem is real and it will have a huge cost in the near future. The fact that you don't have the data doesn't mean it isn't there. You can look it up for yourself.

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video, Graboff's remarkable work, and the channel content in general. All are very welcome.

Your appreciation is very welcome, and I'm glad your daughter enjoyed his work.

Hello, and many thanks for your kind words about my video tribute. Without your interview I would have had nothing other than the pictures and a list of publication dates. Jon Graboff also commented favourably, and that was very welcome too. It seems the video has made some more converts to Graboff's spectacularly undervalued work.

Thanks a lot.

Never came across this before...Lancashire, s art expert , Pete has surpassed himself, yet again

Thanks a lot fot your comment, and I'm very pleased that you and quite a few other viewers appreciate the wonders of Graboff's work.

Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. We all are very blessed by the way that Pete has given us the gift of learning about so many different incredible artists ❤

Many thanks for your appreciation of my efforts. They are always welcome.

Your appreciation of my work on the channel is very welcome - thanks a lot.

Hello and many thanks for your comment. Because I'm English I never saw the work of Abner Graboff as I grew up - his books were just not published here. But despite the fact that I'm now an old man I really enjoy what he created, too.

Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. My comfort zone and greater level of knowledge tends to be more the golden age and European in nature, but I also have come to really admire some of these more radical stylists from the mid to late 20th. I have made a video about Jim Flora, and there are a couple of others in the pipeline. Also some are featured in the unsung heroes series, if only relatively briefly.

Hello again, and neither had I until I started making videos. An exclusively American phenomenon, I think. In the 50s the only books I remember were Enid Blyton's Noddy, illustrated by Beek. Otherwise it was comics that fascinated me.

Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment and appreciation.

Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. Sadly, he wasn't popular enough in his lifetime.

@@petebeard Unfortunately that applies to a lot of people working in the arts.

Hello and I'm really delighted that you think my tribute to your father was a worthwhile little documentary. many thanks for letting me know you approve, and I hope it brings him more deserved attention and respect.

You are very welcome and I'm pleased you fnd the content inspiring. My own career was far from stellar but I would do it all again if I had the chance - just a bit better.

Thanks for the comment. And yes Graboff was more organic and experimental than Flora, but both deserve to be much better known, in my book.

I'm pleased you enjoyed his wonderful work. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and the holiday (Venice) was spectacular.

Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment. I've been very pleased by the positive reaction to graboff's illustrations.

Thanks a lot for your comment, as usual.

I'm glad you share my opinion of his abilities. Thanks for the comment.

Hello again and thanks as usual for your recent comments and appreciation of my efforts to keep the memory of these talented people alive. I envy his ability to describe so much (cat behaviour for example) with such 'unrealistic' drawing. Makes me think of Picasso, but for kids.

Thanks fr your comment, and to say so such with such minimal imagery is a rare talent.

Thanks a lot for your comment, and I'm glad you appreciate his work.

I'm very pleased you enjoyed it - thanks for the appreciation.

Hello again and I'm delighted you appreciate Graboff's remarkable ability to communicate so clearly with such simplicity. A rare talent.

You are welcome, and I'm pleased that you have discovered and enjoyed his work.

Hello again and thanks for your comment and appreciation as usual. I could outdo Graboff in the agent stakes - in the 90s my agent actually left the country owing me more than 11,000 quid. I was not amused, but it was a cautionary experience which at least led me to being a bit more hardheaded about business... And I had to look a while at that picture before I saw the potential smut. I don't think it's possible to see too many Carry On films, matron.

@@petebeard@petebeard Oh, a terrible story; sorry about that. There are some unscrupulous people out there. I too, have been dreadfully used in my career but then again, rather lucky in some ways, too. We must be careful of innuendo. Whenever I see it in a script, I whip it out immediately! To quote the much-missed Kenneth Williams.

Thanks a lot for your comment, appreciation and unexpected connection.

Interesting comment. I feel similarly about some of the stuff I saw as a kid.

Hello again and I'm very pleased Graboff's work resonates with you. For some he's an acquired taste, but I find his work particularly entertaining.

Thanks as usual, and it's great to know the work is appreciated.

I'm glad you appreciate just how influential - and downright entertaining - his contribution was.

I'm glad you enjoyed his work.

Thanks for the comment. Over here in Britain his books weren't published so I didn't discover him until I was pretty old.

@@petebeard I have enjoyed quite a few of your videos. I have shared, and will try to leave a comment more often. You are doing a wonderful work with your channel.

Hi Mike and thanks for the comment. How he could say so much with such minimal images fascinates and baffles me.

Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment and appreciation. I'm sorry to hear about your problem and I hope you can find alternative ways to express yourelf. Without going into detail I had a similar experience, but was forced into finding a new approach, so I know how problematic such work related health issues can be.

@@petebeard 😍🌞

Thanks a lot.

You are always welcome.

Thanks a lot for your appreciation - and the correction. That slipped under my radar.

Thanks for the comment, and although I do actually like his work a lot I can fully understand that he might be considered an acquired taste by others. But then, that's true of every illustrator I've covered to one extent or another.

Thanks a lot for your appreciation.I'm glad you enjoyed his work.

Hi again, Doug. Don't get me started about agents...bad for my blood pressure. Although I should accept some responsibility for my own poor business acumen. And the UPA connection is very much valid with both Graboff and Jim Flora. Graboff never did get involved with animation other than a title sequence for the Danny Kaye show in the 50s. The Toot animation was the wonderfully named Aurelius Battaglia, I think. He appears in unsung heroes 97, if your'e interested. And no there is no sunshine here, but I just got back from a trip to Venice, where it was in excess of 20 degrees. Lovely stuff all round.

Thanks again for the appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

me too, and I'm glad to say quite a few other viewers.

Thanks for your appreciation.

Thanks a lot for your appreciation of graboff's work - and my own modest contribution.

Many thanks as usual for yout continuing appreciation of the channel. I'm delighted that you - and it seems quite a few other viewers - really enjoy Graboffs gloriously silly pictures. Unfortunately as I know to my cost many illustrators of children's books are only offered a flat fee, or at best a small percentage of the author;' royalty payments. It's what is known as a buyer's market - if you don't accept the terms there are plenty of others who will. And my holiday in Venice was an amazing experience, thanks.

Thanks a lot for your appreciation -and the list. Some are already on the channel - Doré, Rackham, McCay, Pogany and some such as Coll are in the pipeline. Others I don't know but I suspect they may not be dead and buried (which is essential for inclusion. But I'll investigate further.

Hello and many thanks for your comment, appreciation, and appraisal of graboff's remarkable body of work. I certainly get the impression that it was design to pay the bills and illustration for fun, and I envy his ability to say so much with such disregard for the usual conventions of reality.

@@petebeard A belief I've had for a while now is how much the US benefitted from the influence of emigre European designers, artists, writers, cinematographers in the 30s. Up until that point, the US had been producing a sort of traditional high quality but slightly parochial realistic illustration in the vein of Leyendecker, Rockwell, Pyle etc. Then almost overnight the new European influence enabled the US to jump into the vanguard of modernistic illustration aesthetics. But it was more than illustration, graphic designers such as Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Alvin Lustig, architects like Richard Neutra, Alexander Girard, really, it was a complete cultural artistic revolution. And combined with the American 'go ahead' business ethic, it was a great time to be a creative. Especially if you had a European accent. And Graboff was one of those designer/illustrators who grasped and applied these new ideas so well. So, in a way, a large part of what has been called the 'American Century' was actually the result of a European mindset more than American ideas. I don't think this impact can be underestimated. Anyway, apologies for rambling on, keep up the excellent work, it's always a bit of a thrill to find new artists you may have missed.

Thanks for the comment, and it's criminal but true that there isn't one.

Thanks for the comment. When I was teaching illustrationiI tried to get the students to understand the business so they might not fall into the bear traps I so frequently fell into. They could not have been less interested, bless them.

Thanks as usual.

Thanks for the comment, as usual.

Thanks for your comment as usual, and I must confess I wasn't wild about the shadow/cutout combo. But I still admire him for having a go.

Thnks as usual for the comment, especially as I would have expected a less than favourable response to his approach from your direction. I see Graboff and those like him as a worthwhile antidote to an excess of Rockwellism.

I wouldn't worry about that. I spent more than 40 years as an illustrator and didn't previously know about quite a few of the illustrators I feature on the channel. Too busy trying to make a living.

A nice way to put it. Thanks.

Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I'm flattered you think I might be able to track down this illustrator, but I'm afraid it has defeated me. Not the first - or the last - time. Sorry.

I know what you mean, but I'd prefer to say he was able to entertain adults just as much as the tinies. In my view, nothing is wasted on kids.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the comment and it's easy to see how, like his inspirational sources, his work may be a bridge too far for some tastes.

Thanks a lot.

@@petebeard ur welcome sir. Love ur content.

You're welcome, and thanks for the appreciation.

Thanks as usual for your comment and appreciation. The only Peter Bennett I'm aware of is the Spongebob guy - is that who you mean?

Thanks a lot. It's not compulsory but you would be doing me a favour if you did.