I love old television shows. Mostly, I love shows from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Shows like
Leave It To Beaver,
The Andy Griffith Show,
The Munsters and many others. These were true situation comedies. Totally unreal, far-fetched and implausible. These shows usually depicted perfect families faced with a horrible crisis, like Beaver losing his baseball glove or Opie knocking a bird's nest from a tree. After a while, these simple shows made way for more realistic sitcoms, like
All in the Family, and
M*A*S*H, leaving their cast to try to shake typecasting or to fade into TV oblivion.
Of all of these shows, the best example of a true "retro" sitcom was
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. It presented the wholesome adventures of a teenager and his family and friends. Dobie's main concern was girls, especially Thalia Menninger. Dobie's best friend was beatnik Maynard G. Krebs and his rival for Thalia's affections was Milton Armitage. And there was Zelda Gilroy, for whom Dobie was "the living end". A happy little TV world. A far cry from the reality of the assasination of President Kennedy, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Missle Crisis and the impending war in Viet Nam. When the show ended its four-year run, its stars entered a real life of which their characters could never have dreamed.
Dwayne (
Dobie) Hickman beacme a high-ranking programming executive at CBS. Bob (
Maynard) Denver was stranded on an uncharted island off the coast of Hawaii for 3 seasons, until he became a radio DJ in West Virginia, where he smoked a lot of marijuana. Warren (
Milton) Beatty slept with every woman in Hollywood (except Shirley MacLaine), eventually settling on Annette Bening. Tuesday (
Thalia) Weld became the covergirl for
Matthew Sweet's awesome album "
Girlfriend". Sheila (
Zelda) James, who longed to have her unrequited love for Dobie reciprocated (eventhough anyone with a minimal sense of "
gaydar" knew otherwise) was the first openly gay person elected to the California State Senate.
I did these pieces for a design firm that wanted to give a series of cocktail coaster to past clients. One side had the retro pinup girls on one side and a drink recipe on the other. I ended up doing a series of five different girls... these were two of my faves. Really fun project!.JPG?picon=728)
nice reflections on the helmets! is that real paint?
It's all completely digital... Illustrator and Photoshop.
They look great. Very nice
Cool! I love the green one... Interesting to know that it's all digital. At first I tought it was real paint. Nice work!