Does anyone remember "Car toons" Comic magazine from the 60"s. I could hardly wait to get the next issue. I always thought a division of Boy Scouts as Car Scouts would have been Kool. I think between, building models, Cartoons, Hot Rod and Rod & Custom Magazines that's what got me hooked. Bought my first car at 12 and paid $12.00 for it. Never looked back. The Old Tinbasher
Yes I do remember going down to 7 eleven and hoping they had it .I think marketing was the problem ,I loved that mag ,Helped me learn how to draw and fueled my sickness of this great hobby.Krass and Bernie rocked ,
Yup I remember it well, I recently had the urge to buy some old issues and looked for them, cant find them anywhere! I guess everyone did like me and tossed them years ago, or their mom did.....Jim
I remember the Iron-ons!! I ordered a "Ed Roth" T-shirt out of the Mag. Thought it would never show. 16 weeks later it showed up. I didn't think California was that far from Ontario Canada. I was the happiest 13 year old around and the only guy in town with one of the"Rat Fink" shirts. TOT
The books w/ the Iron Ons still in 'em would be a little desirable I'm sure. Whether they would still apply I don't know. Good Times for sure tho..
One of our antiques dealers had some of them in her booth, had no clue what they were. She let me have them for 3 bucks a pop.
Car-Toons lasted just about to the mid-1990s, because I remember buying them in the stores and I'm not that old. Quarterly by then. With the prominence of all the web comics out there now, you'd think Car Toons could have a second life online if someone wanted to draw them and post them.
The old iron ons still work....I wore one today! There's also another good thread in addition to the one that's already been posted twice here. Try searching "cartoons" and see if it doesn't come up.
Funny, I dug a couple old issues out last weekend. Hadn't seen them in over twenty years. Man... they take me back
Was there another car comic book. I clearly recall CARtoons, but I seem to remember another, perhaps short-lived version. I also remember Wonder Warthog from? I see it in a coule avatars. WW was from Cracked maybe? A lot of those old critters and cars made it to the margins of my notebooks. Funny story here about HS art class. I went to a private school with nuns, no sense of humor there. The art teacher (a nun) had instructed the class to do a picture of something related to spring like flowers, rain, etc. She singled me out and said you can't draw cars with this****ignment, I want something related to spring. "Ok..." So I whipped up a couple pro stock lookin cars doing burnouts at a drag strip, then turned it into a typical 70s flower power poster for the "Springnationals at Detroit Dragway" and turned it in. Sadly my parents wasted all that tuition money. The****** ripped it up and failed me for the day. See, I wasn't ordered to 'not draw cars', it was a challenge from her to me that I couldn't based on the subject. Clearly she wasn't a race fan. The scene was inspired by a drag race episode in CARtoons which was neatly hidden with the rest of my school*****. I told Mom about it and she was pissed. Praised me for creative thinking, but tried to explain that I'd be better off in some ways to go with the teacher's instructions. After some further discussion she said to forget that and go on being creative. All this from reading and doodling from CARtoons. Mom woulda kicked my**** if she found a copy in my school books!
Wonder Warthog came from Drag Cartoons, the late Pete Millar's old magazine. Pete also was the creator of CARtoons.
Found them right where I had them neatly stored. Have 25 copies I'd hoped my sons would get into one day. The iron-ons are still in them too! Glad you all brought them back to my attention. Time to reread and laugh again!
I see one or two in that pile that I don't have. The 1975 and newer ones are my favorites. I've got about 30 duplicates I need to part with....just haven't gotten around to listing them anywhere.
I discovered my Dads magazine stash several years ago. Some Hot Rod Magazines from the Late 50's and early 60's, and some Cartoons magazines! All neat stuff, I enjoyed finding them. Didnt Pete Millar race a Ford powered FED, the Chicken Coupe in the mid 60s? If I remember right it sunk to the bottom of a harbor in a shipping container, and was unsaveable when it returned to the US. Something about the shipping company didnt tell Pete they dropped it and loaded it onto the ship after fishing it back out.
I used to get kicked out of class in junior high school and sent to the Library where I would stuff Car Tunes inside of Time Magazine . I could read all I wanted of it and MAD as long as I had a different cover on it. I saw a Mad mag at a store when I was traveling last summer and noticed how much our president looks like Alfred E. Newman ! Am I the only one ? Sorry little OT.
Still have mine from 60/61. Not only am I cursed being a packrat but also a garbage can mind knowing where it all is.
I love Car Toons! Here is a link to George Trosley's site http://www.georgetrosley.com/index.html I have the first three issues and a bunch from the 80's till the end!
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