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Golf Cartoon by Ian Marsden - International Cartoon Biennale Davos 1992

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

From the Marsden Archive:

This golf cartoon was originally in color, this is the only reproduction I still have.

Misunderstanding on the golf course with a perceived egg - Golf Cartoon by Ian Marsden

It was created using a pen and ink and gouache on D’Arches watercolor paper.

It depicts a bunch of highly distrustful birds who have ganged up on a poor golfer somewhere in Scotland. Their suspicion seems to be that it is not a golf ball at all but rather an egg he might be playing with.

It was published in the Swiss Nebelspalter magazine in 1991 and was exhibited at the

4th International Cartoon Biennale in Davos, Switzerland
(22. July - 22. August 1992 Kongresszentrum Davos)

The original was purchased at the Cartoon Biennale Davos by well-known Swiss media personality, actor, comedian, writer, producer Hansjörg Bahl and is in his personal collection.

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A cat up the Christmas tree - Cartoon by Ian Marsden

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

…with several dogs waiting patiently below….

This is a black and white pen and ink cartoon I drew for my own personal Holiday greeting card. (Ca. 1995)

Dogs chasing cat up Christmas tree cartoon by Ian Marsden

Cartoon artwork © Copyright 1995 Ian D. Marsden

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Cartoon from 1998 - 50 Years Mövenpick by Ian Marsden

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

From the Marsden Archives:

Cartoon Illustration 50 Years Mövenpick by Ian Marsden

This is a cartoon commissioned by Urs Kneubühl for Mövenpickles Magazine, the internal publication for the Mövenpick corporation.

Urs Kneubühl was a wonderful person to work for and I would like to count him to my personal friends.

The concept was to have a party with 50 scoops of the fantastic Mövenpick ice-cream flavors. The seagull on top of the mound if ice-cream stems from the fact that ‘Möve’ means seagull in German.

I used a sketch of my own daughter Joanna for the little baby - she was 1 year old right around the time I drew this cartoon.

Pen and Ink on Paper - colored with aquarell watercolors and colored pencils.

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Whistling Frog Barbados Rum label by Ian Marsden

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

 In 1997 when I lived in Barbados, West Indies I was asked by my very good friend John Flann, who was (among other things) the owner of ‘Da Ark’ floating bar in the center of Bridgetown, to design the logo mascot and labels for his new product, Whistling Frog Barbados Rum.

The concept was very clever, and the bottle cap even had a frog shaped whistle built in. The labels were very nicely executed also with a blue metallic rim and embossed 3D ‘warts’ and bumps on the actual frog.

I later also designed the website for the product, the JuJu Lounge.

Unfortunately John passed away at a very untimely age and the product stopped production shortly after it had even launched.

The artwork was designed, inked and colored by hand on paper - this was just around the time when I started to use digital graphics.

Whistling Frog Barbados Rum Label designed by Ian Marsden