[ QUOTE ] Are 20 year old iron ons any good? [/ QUOTE ] My attempts with the Iron On's when they were new was Frustrating..., many times parts of the art work would peel off..., so my brother and I would trace and fill in the bad spots with magic marker!! Tons of great memories...!
I remember I had a T shirt with the T Bucket with "comin'" on the front and "Gone" on the back. Boy was I cool back then. I printed them off of that site a while ago and hung them on the garage wall. Unfortunately the only ones I still have are from the 80's and everything has square headlights! I had a bunch of the old posters hanging in my parent's basement. They remodeled it and threw them all away while I was off at college. I was pissed!
I'm still amazed what people have been able to hold onto on this site...! "Cripes"..., and for "soooo many years" at that...! All my Comics, posters and models were tossed out when I was in the Military! My folks built a new house and my shit didn't make the move...!
Wignutz, I'm with you. I've moved between several states (several times in each state, too!) since graduating in '83, and alot of my stuff that I left at the folks' house got ditched. Oh well...gives me stuff to hunt down and buy all over again. On another note...what happened to Shawn Kerri? When did she die? That's a real shame...here and Trosley were my favorites! Shawn drew even hotter chicks than Trosley!! Here's one of those "other" Trosley cartoons!
I still have a fat stack of CARtoons from the early to mid '80s, most of 'em with the iron-ons still intact. Also a cherry condition issue no.1 from 1960 and issue no. 5 from '62. Yeah, go ahead and call me a mag collectin' geek. I got hooked on rods in no small part to CARtoons. Always made the boring grocery trip with Moms a lot more bearable for an eight-year old on a pop rocks and hawaiin punch buzz. Anyone remember when Krass and Bernie found the gennie deuce tudor body out in the toolies on a dirt bikin' trip? Bernie had his nose buried in Hemmings reciting ads for rod material. That story made me buy my first Hemmings while still in grade school!
ROCKET 88 - which mag is that iron on from...I'm almost 3/4 done doing a complete list of the iron ons from '77 to '86? thanks for any help. GENXIE.
They made CARtoons in the 80's????? I got married in '75 and even then i thought Cartoons was a thing of the past. I loved it in the 60's. I still draw cars the way I learned from those comics. There was also a comic that was more realistic than Cartoons in the 60's but I can't remember the name of it. There was a heavyset character in it that was always having problems with his shoebox Ford, like missing second gear and blowing the trans....
I do remember CARtoons, and Mom ironed the transfers on T-shirts for me. I liked DRAGtoons better, though.
No Subs!!! Alway remember the fact they didnt have subscriptions till near the end. Trosley was and still is the man, someday when I grow up I'll send him the cash for an original drawing of my car
Here's a cool link, it's a PDF of the March '65 & Feb '66 issues... Enjoy! http://recordbrother.typepad.com/imagesilike/files/cartoon_march_64.pdf http://recordbrother.typepad.com/imagesilike/files/cartoons_feb_66.pdf
Ya I used to look at them and Drag Cartoons, & Cycle Toons with Henry Hintons "Hog Ryder" strip. I also remember a short lived Roth toons mag. I usally barrowed my freinds copy's to read, so unfortunatly I don't have many real old ones kickin' around. But I did subscribe for the last four years that CARtoons was published and still have those. I met Steve Austin once. He did "cutt-away" cartoons for them. A real nice guy, spent an afternoon in his studio. A real pro. I think he's still around. A guy who was an assitant editor in the end, lives up here in the SF Bay Area and plays blues Guitar He was Dennis Ellfsons assistent up till Dennis passed. Never been able to draw him out much about his time with the mag though. As for bringing them back or something similar. I'd be willing to be one of the artist's (If I get paid a pro page rate) If someone is willing to publish it! What happened to Shawn Kerry? RIP? When did that happen? She also did some real cool Circle Jerks poster art! Sory to hear she passed.
I loved CarTOONS!!! If I look around in some boxes I could probably find a stack of old issues. I would even bet a few issues have the iron-ons still. I miss those days of reading CarTOONS and drinking soda while i skipped school and dreamed of hotrods. Way more fun then payin' bills.
Sadly I tried to to iron on the only CAR Toons transfer I had. I did it in a tee shirt press too. didn't work.....
Man this thread has some real boss jazz! I was a pauper as a kid and could only pick up second hand copies at swap meets. That way I really got into the earlier mags, never saw much of the 80s stuff. Them and all the old 'serious' comics on hotrodding, I had a stack of them as well. Man I miss that stuff, If I was a better artist I would have my hand up to do one as well. I remember making my own comics as a kid, I think my brother-in-law still has one of them too!
I did my first water color in 7th grade that I never finished but the teacher still gave me an A for it, based off an old Cartoons cover.......After that I drew everything out of that mag...Good memories.....My art teacher ended up being my art teacher from 7th grade to 11th grade...In 11th grade I gave up art and joined Autobody and walked away from a full art scholarship that I had competed for and won...she disowned me after I told her body work was the same as art and for the fact I stopped drawing.....Littleman Remember I did it in 7th grade...its good for a laugh!!! after all these years
Remember this superhero from Drag Cartoons?...he drove a Mustang called the Hogmobile?.... Wonder Warthog! I had a couple issues featuring him.
Cool thread.... I have @ 20 issues.....some mid 60's, but mostly 80's and early 90's. I *think* the last issue was late in '91, maybe Oct.....I'll have to dig it out, as I have it, along with a few iron-ons and posters..... Long live CARtoons!
I broke my skate board while transporting my first bare block through my moms house while pushing it to my room at 13-14 yrs. old..........The house had no carpet just all floor tile.....I then took a small dremel tool and smoothed the lifter valley out and smoothed the entire outer block.........Littleman...All my mags were thrown out by my family the day after I left for basic training along w/ all my beloved model cars.......
I used to get CARtoons when I was younger, sure was a nice surprise when I graduated to hustlers to see Crosley in there. He's still one of my favorite artists. I heard somewhere that either Krass or Bernie ( I forget which ones which) was "inspired" by the late great Gray Baskerville
I have a couple somewhere. I'm pretty sure one still has the Iron on in it. The other may predate those or just didn't have one in that issue. I'll dig 'em out some time. I was actually trying to create a comic strip and submit it to them but decided art school should come first. The one I was working on had a couple Jamaican dudes running around the U.S. in a thrashed old VW Baja Beetle. It was pretty stupid and will never see the light of day.
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