Ramblings On a Theme:

I was over at the Tom Sito web site http://www.tomsito.com/blog.php this morning where I found this: 1929-With the approval of Edgar Rice Burroughs, artist Hal Foster began drawing the Tarzan comic strip.

When I was a student at the Kubert School Uncle Joe had 4 or 5 full size stats of Hal Foster Tarzan Sunday pages up on the walls of the school. He had the originals at his home.

One day somebody broke into his house and stole all his TV sets and other loose valuables leaving a fortune in artwork hanging on his walks.

This tells us two things: first the art education in the public school system sucks, second it wasn`t one of the Kubert students breaking into the master`s house because we would have known the value of the artwork hanging on the walls.

The early comic strip art, like the early animation art, was all destroyed as a routine. There use to be this guy at King Features whose job it was to destroy all the artwork from all of the King Features comic strips. Instead he would take it home and put it in his spare room. Strangely enough, he became a very successful art dealer in his later years. Go figure.

I am not sure where I am going with this rambling but anyone who saves artwork from corporate stupidity is my hero and deserves all the success they receive.