Showing posts with label first playboy magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first playboy magazine. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Jack Cole

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More than any other artist who worked at Playboy Jack Cole was most responsible for establishing the tone and style of the single panel full page cartoons that appeared in its pages His watercolor technique was loose and free, but the overall impression was brilliantly planned out and remarkably expressive.
(from the Hollywood Animation Archive) View Full Article

Monday, January 19, 2009

Man’s First Playboy

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The first issue of Playboy Magazine came out in 1953. It featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover and it wasn’t dated just in case it had to serve as the second issue as well. Sotheby’s auction house took in over $40,000.00 in recent years for a copy that was autographed by Joe DiMaggio.