Comments on: Comics: Rowland Emett- Cartoonist & Tinkerer http://animationresources.org/?p=937 Provides resorces for self-study for animation professionals, students, educators and researchers. Sat, 25 May 2013 03:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Patrick Noakes http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5021 Patrick Noakes Tue, 10 May 2011 01:37:27 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5021 I saw Emett’s work in a late ’40s or early ’50s Life (maybe Look?) magazine dealing with the US southwest, perhaps only the Grand Canyon, and have craved to see his work again. I at long last recalled his name and just now (5/9/2011) came upon a treasure.

]]> By: Steve Hammell http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5020 Steve Hammell Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:04:26 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5020 Rowland Emett’s brilliant zany cartoons evoke the whimsical side of the British imagination with fantastical depictions of trains, trolleys, boats, cars, trucks, buses, outlandish devices and people. I would love to know what experiences in his early life triggered his fascination with these things. My father’s father, an illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist had a book of Emett’s drawings in his studio. Ever since discovering it as a boy I have always connected with the absurd scenarios that devolve around commuting, distance traveling and the interface between people, machines and conveyances. Who else can you recommend who draws this sort of out-of-kilter world in such a wonderful way?

]]> By: Derek Parker http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5019 Derek Parker Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:43:13 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5019 I was fortunate enough to know Rowland Emett, and indeed to possess one of his original drawings, which he gave my wife and me not long before his death. He was an extremely nice, mild, humorous man whose quiet humour was an inherant part of his character. A number of his drawings are in the collection of the V and A Museum.

]]> By: Matt Jones http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5018 Matt Jones Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:13:53 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5018 Also check out Searle contemporaries from the 50s Osbert Lancaster, Anton and James Fitton-they all influenced each other, working for Punch and Lilliput magazines. I’ve put up samples of their work here:

http://lilliputmagazine.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Hans Perk http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5017 Hans Perk Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:53:39 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5017 Remember to check out the nice documentary “The Ditchling Tinkerer” about Rowland Emett which is a special feature on the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2-disc Special Edition DVD!

]]> By: British Cartoonist Rowland Emett http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5016 British Cartoonist Rowland Emett Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:08:11 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5016 [...] British Cartoonist Rowland Emett AKPC_IDS += "3946,"; [...]

]]> By: Eddie Fitzgerald http://animationresources.org/?p=937#comment-5015 Eddie Fitzgerald Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:41:46 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=937#comment-5015 Veeeery nice! It was nice too to see Emett’s ideas made into real life things. Disney should build an Emett village in one of their theme parks.

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