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November 29, 2007
Barefoot with Eldon Dedini
Several Eldon Dedini cartoons illustrating a book called Barefoot Boy with Cheek, by Max Shulman, from 1959. Dedini's work for Playboy has been collected in An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini from Fantagraphics Books. I haven't actually seen that enticing volume because I'm poor and the local library doesn't carry it, so hopefully I haven't just scanned and posted a bunch of images already available there. But this is pretty good stuff, not nearly as lovely and lush as his color magazine work, but still robustly drawn.
The front cover (above) suffers from off-register printing, so here's a detail from the back cover which repeats a portion of the the same image, only with slightly improved quality.
Wonderful stuff! Rare Dedini... what a treat! Thanks for sharing this with us, Jeff! :-)
Posted by: leif at November 29, 2007 08:00 PM
Absolutely top notch stuff that's new to me. Thanks for this. I am immediately babbling about this on my blog and sending people to your blog!
Posted by: Mike Lynch at November 30, 2007 10:33 AM
Thanks, guys.
I notice in the last scan another Shulman book ("Rally Round the Flag...") that appears to have a Dedini cover (and interior drawings?). There are several copies listed right now on ebay, with color photos. Anyone seen that volume?
Posted by: Jeffrey at December 1, 2007 03:29 AM
Posted by: Jeffrey at December 1, 2007 03:40 AM
Posted by: Mark S. at December 21, 2007 09:45 PM
Wow, thanks. That *does* look like Dedini, doesn't it? I wonder, too, if it might be Frank Kelly Freas?
Posted by: Jeffrey at December 22, 2007 03:25 AM
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Several Eldon Dedini cartoons illustrating a book called Barefoot Boy with Cheek, by Max Shulman, from 1959. Dedini's work for Playboy has been collected in An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini from Fantagraphics Books. I haven't actually seen that enticing volume because I'm poor and the local library doesn't carry it, so hopefully I haven't just scanned and posted a bunch of images already available there. But this is pretty good stuff, not nearly as lovely and lush as his color magazine work, but still robustly drawn.
The front cover (above) suffers from off-register printing, so here's a detail from the back cover which repeats a portion of the the same image, only with slightly improved quality.
