Monday, January 28th, 2008
This is an unpublished self-promotional humorous children’s book and science fiction illustration featuring Bombo the Bear, Chester the Butler and their time travelling friends.
In the 1980s I wrote and illustrated several episodes of ‘Idi and Bombo’ about Bombo the Bear and Idi the bird for Swiss Television DRS (Fernsehen DRS). Later I had a regular full page color ‘Bombo’ comic in the Sonntagsblick Newspaper.
It was rendered in pen and ink, colored pencils and watercolors. (only the sky gradient is digitally created).
©1997 Ian David Marsden http://www.marsdencartoons.com
Tags: , cartoon, Children's Book illustration, Fernsehen DRS, Marsden, science fiction, Sonntagsblick
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Cartoon of Pirates walking the plank © 1997 by Ian D. Marsden
This is one of several Playboy-style cartoons I submitted to Michelle Urry at Playboy Magazine which led her to think that my drawing style might be a match for Playboy. Unfortunately Hugh Hefner himself disagreed with Mrs. Urry and even though I got this close - I missed it by ‘that much’ as Maxwell Smart might say.
This was created using pen and ink, colored pencil and watercolor, gouache on Bristol Board.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
From the Marsden Archive:
‘Solidarité de Poisson’
Exhibited at the Cartoon Biennale Davos 1993
Published in Nebelspalter Nr. 2/ 1993
Ausgestellt an der Cartoon Biennale Davos 1993
Erschienen in Nebelspalter Nr. 2 / 1993
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
From the Marsden Archive
A cartoon commissioned by a State Police department for their t-shirts by Ian D. Marsden.
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A bulldog State Trooper takes a bite out of crime and helps a damsel in distress.
Pen and ink on bristol paper.
