The Nasty King

 

'The Nasty King' a magnificent piece recently sold at auction - I have no clue what this would've been for.

Lloyd's Bank

 

Lloyd's Bank brochure artwork

 "Making a Small Business Bigger", 1981

 "Financing the Farm", 1982

Sunday Times

 A nice spread in the 22 November, 1964 issue to promote the release of 'From Frozen North to Filthy Lucre'.

Round The Bend in Eighty Days with S J Perelman

I received a great contribution from fellow Searle fan James Burgess who realized that the 1972 Perelman/Searle collaboration was not for Travel & Leisure magazine as I assumed in this post but for The New Yorker. The depiction of the famous humorist traveling with his buxom companion were not part of the 'Nostasia in Asia' series but for a piece called 'Round The Bend in Eighty Days'. The illustrations however remain unpublished as far as we can tell since the series featured the work of another illustrator. 

Jules Verne laughs at Perelman & friend's attempts to emulate Phileas Fogg.

The image at the top is the best available online- I'd love to see this in higher quality. If any readers have more info please email me at the address in my Blogger profile. 

Titles By Ronald Searle

I've been meaning to make this for a while: here's a supercut of all the film title sequences designed by Ronald Searle!

Animated Molesworth update!

 

More on adapting Searle's style into animation: London-based animation director and fellow Searle fanatic, Uli Meyer, has news on his 'Molesworth' feature - read it here. 

Uli did the illustrations for the new 'Molesworth' book (above) proving if anyone can match Searle's style he can! (from Korero Press and now available in the US).

Check out Uli's proof-of-concept animated piece below. 

MOLESWORTH_TEASER_TRAILER from Uli Meyer on Vimeo.

Advertising pt. 3

Here's a rarity: a 2000 British Telecom commercial animated by Hibbert Ralph Animation in the style of Ronald Searle. 

Cadbury's Creme Egg campaign, 1992.

More on Searle's work in advertising in pt1 and pt2