I think you may have missed the sarcasm ol' boyEnikyoga wrote:Zar, a million thanks for backing up my observation.
Stephen I.
That sort of kit was used for industrial design purposes, I seriously doubt it was ever put to the use you're suggesting.
I think you may have missed the sarcasm ol' boyEnikyoga wrote:Zar, a million thanks for backing up my observation.
Stephen I.
I still strongly think that Betty Maxey's illustrations were not hand-sketched but were assisted with a kind of machine or something of that nature, which explains why those illustrations were/are more uniform in their appearance than those of Eileen Soper.Zar Quon wrote:I think you may have missed the sarcasm ol' boyEnikyoga wrote:Zar, a million thanks for backing up my observation.
Stephen I.
That sort of kit was used for industrial design purposes, I seriously doubt it was ever put to the use you're suggesting.
Hi Pete,pete9012S wrote:Hi All!
Am I the only person who loves both these illustrators equally?
It could be my age (42 with a strong determined chin!),but I feel that it is great to have BOTH sets of illustrations.
As a child I used to spend hours finding the same illustrated scenes by the two ladies and compare them,looking for minute differences and indeed similarities.
I do feel its eventually an 'age thing' and that my generation is possibly the only one that could even consider Betty on equal terms with good old Eileen!
You and your theories, Stephen! Everybody else thinks that you are talking a load of rubbish and you still maintain you are right!Enikyoga wrote:It is self-evident that those pictures were machine-produced.
Stephen I.
Hello Anita,Anita Bensoussane wrote: I always feel sorry to read about changes like that. My copies of the Famous Five books are the revised ones (Knight paperbacks dating from the late 1960s-1970s). As a child I felt that the Adventure, Find-Outers, Barney and Secret series had a special atmosphere but that the Famous Five and Secret Seven series lacked something. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but I'm wondering now whether it might have been the fact that the Famous Five and Secret Seven books I read had been updated.