Space Artist Cartoon
301. SPACE ARTIST: Cartoon - A black ink drawing on an 11 x 14 vellum paper. It appears in the fanzine , "Outworlds," edited and published by Bill Bowers.
As I was working on this drawing I stopped to take a coffee break, and during the break I read an article in an art magazine about Rose O'Neil. She was truly an American phenomenon who invented the "Kewpie" doll.
Actually, she was an illustrator during the 1930s and 40s, who liked to doodle away idle times by drawing doll-like figures. One day a man who manufactured toys saw one of her doodles and offered her a deal; his company would produce a 3D version of the doll to sell and they would share in the profits. Since Rose also liked to play with clay she made the prototype model herself and they decided to call it "The Kewpie Doll."
At best, they each hoped to make a few thousand dollars from the sales of the doll, but the American public took the doll to heart and sales went sky high. In a short span of time just about every living-room in America had a Rose O'Neil "Kewpie Doll" on display.
So consider this; All the sculptors in the whole world, including the greatest that ever lived during all of human history, up to the time of Rose O'Neil, never managed to earn, collectively, more than a fraction of the millions that Rosy made with her Kewpie doll.
Isn't that mind-boggling?
As I was working on this drawing I stopped to take a coffee break, and during the break I read an article in an art magazine about Rose O'Neil. She was truly an American phenomenon who invented the "Kewpie" doll.
Actually, she was an illustrator during the 1930s and 40s, who liked to doodle away idle times by drawing doll-like figures. One day a man who manufactured toys saw one of her doodles and offered her a deal; his company would produce a 3D version of the doll to sell and they would share in the profits. Since Rose also liked to play with clay she made the prototype model herself and they decided to call it "The Kewpie Doll."
At best, they each hoped to make a few thousand dollars from the sales of the doll, but the American public took the doll to heart and sales went sky high. In a short span of time just about every living-room in America had a Rose O'Neil "Kewpie Doll" on display.
So consider this; All the sculptors in the whole world, including the greatest that ever lived during all of human history, up to the time of Rose O'Neil, never managed to earn, collectively, more than a fraction of the millions that Rosy made with her Kewpie doll.
Isn't that mind-boggling?
