Avec l’histoire de cet aspirateur sur pattes, transparent de surcroît, James Flora est dans le registre loufoque, voir excessif qui le caractérise. Illustrateur prolifique surtout connu pour ses pochettes de disques, il a remplacé Alex Steinweiss comme directeur artistique chez Columbia en 1943. Mais c’est 10 ans plus tard et chez le concurrent Victor que commencera vraiment son heure de gloire. Comme beaucoup de commercial artists de sa génération il travaillera également pour la presse, le dessin animé, et l’édition pour la jeunesse.
This story of a hairy outlaw invisible creature is typical of James Flora’s bizarre world. Prolific illustrator, he is best known for his work on record covers from the ’50s (he was the successor of Alex Steinweiss at Columbia). But as many of his fellow illustrators at that time, he also worked for magazines, animation studios, and also children’s books.
This story of a hairy outlaw invisible creature is typical of James Flora’s bizarre world. Prolific illustrator, he is best known for his work on record covers from the ’50s (he was the successor of Alex Steinweiss at Columbia). But as many of his fellow illustrators at that time, he also worked for magazines, animation studios, and also children’s books.
Leopold the See-Through Crumbpicker
James Flora
Édité par Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New-York, 1961
260 x 190 mm.
James Flora
Édité par Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New-York, 1961
260 x 190 mm.
