About the illustration

This is another Andy Hardy/Dell 4 color Comics illustration where I tried to reproduce the ink styles in procreate. I took particular care this time to come as close to the original line style, stroke and thickness as I could. I wanted to work on making the longer curved line be as smooth as possible. I occasionally stoped a line half way through so I could work on continuing them without showing any sign of a join. I even worked on duplicating the cover titles with the same grainy edges as the original.

About Al Hubbard

Al Hubbard (May 26, 1913 – May 30, 1984) was an American comics artist and animator who had worked with Walt Disney Pictures, MGM Studios (Tom and Jerry), Warner Bros. (Sylvester the Cat), and Walter Lantz. He was one of the most prominent artists for the comic books with animation studio-licensed characters published by Western Publishing.

Like his peers, Ken Hultrgen, Jack Bradbury, and Tony Strobl, Hubbard in his early twenties also tried to enter the world of animation. He started his animation career as an inbetweener at the Walt Disney Studios in 1937, but left after the film workers’ strike in 1941, turning his attention to comic book art. He did funny animal art for Better Publications, Rural Home, and ACG, and was also an artist for ACG’s “Spencer Spook” and “Bungle of the Jungle” stories.

Hubbard brought to his new vocation all the experience accumulated in animation: an edgy and fast stroke, versatile and adaptable to different characters and contexts, often difficult to contain within the narrow limits of the cartoons.

In 1942, Hubbard moved to Glendale near Los Angeles, where for nearly ten years he worked at the studio directed by Jim Davis.

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