In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold. The results are interesting; they sort of remind me of that famous nature film that I was shown in Health Class where they blew marijuana on a spider and then watched him make crazy freaked-out webs. I have to confess that I’ve not heard of half of these comic strips; However, for the sake of preservation I’ve scanned them all. In my opinion Chick Young’s Dagwood and Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy are the best, but Dixie Dugan’s artist John Striebel seems like he wasn’t even trying!
[Look them all over at A Hole in the Head]
I actually recognized a number of them, but I was impressed by how good some of them did. I think the reasons some of the bigger names did so well, was that they had drawn it so many times they could even draw them in their sleep.
Tags: Art, Comic, Interesting, Irony
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