by J. Meyer
I feel like I ought to know who drew this, but neither the drawing style nor the signature are ringing any bells for me. I’m pretty sure it says J. Meyer, but I’m not even 100% sure about that.
UPDATE: The artist has been found: It’s Joe Meyer. Check the comments below for Joe’s response and links to more of his work.
Butter Rings aren’t too hard to come by. In fact, you can “Enjoy the Fun Shaped Butter Ring with Your Family and Friends!â€
I’m going to assume that “pudae zzigae” is a variant spelling of the stew more commonly romanized as budae jjigae; and that this product was a powdered, just-add-water version of said stew. I can’t find any evidence of it ever existing, but I’m sure it did, and it was probably pretty okay.
The artist on this one is a mystery to me. If you have any ideas, let me know.
by John Boissy
Art from Ypsilanti, MI-based cartoonist and graphic designer John Boissy. I like how his characters appear on the lunchbox.
Whatever happened to Good Morning Chicken? Was the brand discontinued? Did true love last? I have no idea.
by Pam Bliss
Pam Bliss writes: “The fairy seems to have stolen her outfit from the actual woodsman, so she probably doesn’t have a leg to stand on ethically.”
Pam (who posts her own sketchbook drawings here) also stated that she has no recollection of drawing this. It’s fun to hear artists’ interpretations of things they don’t remember drawing.
Personally, I don’t think this is a picture of a fairy in woodman’s clothing. It’s actually a half-fairy/half-woodman creature, who had an unfortunate encounter with an identical looking, sticky-fingered frozen confection (made by Haitai, of course).
But if the anterior part is the fairy, wouldn’t it take the wand, not the axe?
To further muddy the waters, there’s the snack food’s namesake — this Korean folk tale — in which the woodman steals the fairy’s clothes*.
by Jerry Dombrowski
With this one, you get to see the top part of the sketchbook page where I had handwritten the quote for the artist to draw. I usually crop that part out before I post these, but I didn’t want to lose any part of Jerry Dombrowski’s work. Jerry’s my one-time neighbor who used to do a comic called Hamtramck Funnies. He’s still around and, as far as I know, still drawing.
For another take on beautiful women and their scents, here’s a video montage of Acacia gum wrapper art, set to their mellow radio jingle.
Also, a European ad which touts Haitai as “thoroughly un-American gum.” It’s not Acacia gum, but it still seems appropriate for this post.