post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

an alternate Uptown Saturday Night poster that may or may not have been posted and vanished earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/EARoF8M.jpg

another version with bottom detail

Speaking of bottom detail, why not appreciate 1959's Please Turn Over

sadly I cna't find a better copy of this even better variation

they don't get much busier than... "BRANNIGAN!" (1975)

https://i.imgur.com/kg64Amq.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WBN6S7Q4L.jpg

The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag, 1992

"What A Pullquote!"

Even the apparently official blurb for the DVD opens Penelope Ann Miller's delightful performance as the shy, part-time librarian Betty Lou Perkins is the saving grace of this comedy from Touchstone Pictures. Allan Moyle though, I'd give it a watch.

gotta say that the actual movie poster does a much better job of selling it than the VHS cover above.

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/svdDKiQnBFj8tsgN7fXlKqHpjUk.jpg

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang (1979)

leader of the hotwire gang is really not that into this, it seems

Producer to poster artist: "Makes sure them nipples is VISIBLE"

linkrotted upthread:

80s All Over continues to deliver the goods:

Take This Job and Shove It (1981)

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 7, 2017 12:30 AM (three years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/iU5e0WS.jpg

meanwhile i'm continuing my long-abandoned project of spreadsheeting all these movies, with taglines and dates. probably redundant to cryptosicko's Letterboxd list but it's something i started ages ago so... hey.

anyway one thing that struck me, cataloguing taglines, is how many of these posters, especially in the post-Animal House era, lean on calling out other, better films by name, e.g. What "Stripes" did to the Army, What "Police Academy" did to law enforcement... These guys do to scouting! for "The Wrong Guys," or that attempt by "Take This Job and Shove It" to suggest Hays's presence means you're in for something somehow descended from or connected to Airplane! can't recall seeing that kind of naked credibility-grabbing in more recent years - did the big studios crack down at some point, maybe secure a legal precedent that invoking their films was intended to mislead the audience about who made the films or something?

another running theme, apparently a wackiness signifier: really precise numbers, as where the town in "Cold Turkey" has 4,006 people trying to quit smoking and collect the cash prize, or where the dollar amount at stake in The Fortune Cookie is $249,000.92.

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 7, 2017 3:35 AM (three years ago)

guess you can't turn your quote into a hide

RIP Yaphet Kotto

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewk4I62XMAEMY-A?format=jpg&name=900x900

I have some big news for you about animated films

YK the god

apparently legit, the 1979 pitch poster for unmade second Jaws sequel Jaws 3, People 0

https://i.imgur.com/QsRMP6K.jpg

which was to be directed by Joe Dante from a script co-written by John Hughes, based on an idea improvised in a restaurant by the publisher of National Lampoon, and be a meta parody about the making of a Jaws sequel about an alien shark, that opened with Peter Benchley being chomped in his own swimming pool.

hueg

(apparently Spielberg kiboshed the idea of a wacky parody of Jaws; Dante went and made The Howling instead. then Spielberg hired him for Twilight Zone and Gremlins bcz The Howling showed he was so good at making a mix of horror and pop-culture-aware comedy.)

Steve Bissette just shared this one on his FB page, never seen it before:

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/162064566_10161101427708289_4944227670621849757_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=J2JpFvWqz3QAX8tUr56&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=898c2342d0e682bf37176535cd24042b&oe=607823F9

last posted itt three weeks ago, last cited itt two days ago :)

"A good cast is worth repeating" :-)

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GMkEd7V7Zyk/TrOVyxRHlVI/AAAAAAADpWg/UH35TUfv-OU/s1600/slap_shot-poster-3.jpg

Slap Shot, 1977

in my head, the front guy is shouting the title in the style of Tony Manero saying "Alllll Pacino!"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cz-r2DsXcAAt94V.jpg

One Way Pendulum, 1965

Getty watermarked with spot colour

https://i.imgur.com/TxmCyh4.jpg

hueg

cool one-off for a 2010 screening by the bane of Glasgow FAPs

drawings remind me a bit of the Magical Mystery Tour booklet cartoons!

while searching through the thread to avoid repeats, I found El Castañazo still posted from eight years ago!

Also not labelled, here's a much clearer version of More American Graffiti (1979)

(at that size you can confirm that it's a Wm. Stout joint)

... mercilessly ripping off crumb left, right and center

The movie is set in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967 - the Roth and Crumb quotes are, I take it, Stout putting his own youthful interests of the period into the context of the way the film uses different film stocks, aspect ratios and editing styles to reflect the "mode" of each year.

(note that he's especially quoting aspects of Crumb that Crumb had beatjacked from older culture - eg the Segar bystanders, Kilroy Was Here)

uh, some of those are direct crumb lifts (stoned agin, riot cop stomping the hippie, flakey foont with ?, etc)
i like stout as much as the next guy but that poster is grounds for a lawsuit

Speaking of late-'70s Crumb rips...

https://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2017/06/TYW-Book-Hi-res-CMYK.jpg?w=600&q=75

uh, some of those are direct crumb lifts (stoned agin

...the stoned agin riff is not only very much not a direct lift, it specifically blends a different take on Kilroy Was Here with the one 1960s pop-culture sample that recurs from American Graffiti (1973) to MAG (1979). Stout really appears to be working in the spirit of the film here!

more of that Sabbath Crumb rip collected here, but collected there from a 2015 Skot ILX thread that has since linkrotted)

Haha, I'm the one who posted that article in said Skot thread.

http://i.imgur.com/ku58xMV.png
http://i.imgur.com/ii6B6xT.png
http://i.imgur.com/mbKwI9F.png
http://i.imgur.com/pgT84fW.png

yes, the Stoned Agin guy has his whole head melting and sagging in the middle, and at no point drapes his long nose over a spinning record like Kilroy draping his nose over a wall, and also is not an element of an illustration representing people listening to radio DJ Wolfman Jack! we're agreeing completely!

You are completely out of your mind sic but you do you

This is the most anyone has discussed anything pertaining to More American Graffiti in 40 years.

RIP George Segal

https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/500x/cozdofnp/the-new-interns-french-movie-poster.jpg?v=1587312682

The New Interns, 1964

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjZjNDY2OTEtNTZjNC00ZGFiLTg5MDQtOTI4NjdjY2MwY2NjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzQzNDEyOQ@@._V1_UY1200_CR85,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

All's Fair, 1989

https://i.imgur.com/kE4KIzh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6G4pdHx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7b5baEY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Rc8irFY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AnPq466.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EgnzDRV.jpg

i am familiar with kilroy, the positioning/hair/eyes of that figure are clearly based on the stoned agin comic.
the face above wolfman jack is clearly a lift from jayzey lynch.
the keep on truckin' figure is all but traced.
i can't find it but the riot cop jumping on the hippy's head is a copy from either gilbert shelton or crumb.
the rosy hippy face in the center is based on the fritz the cat cameo.
i like stout but he was obviously told to lift underground signifiers, poses and shots and did a bunch of swipes.
is he your uncle or something and you feel the need to defend this point or is this indicative of some larger mania?

compare cop faces here:
http://i.imgur.com/snqa98F.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/twtGZqf.png

Roth and Crumb quotes

stoned agin riff

we seriously are agreeing about what's happening here except a) you think it's bad and b)

obviously told to lift underground signifiers

Stout putting his own youthful interests of the period into the context of the way the film uses different film stocks, aspect ratios and editing styles to reflect the "mode" of each year

as a general rule i think it's bad when artists' work is egregiously ripped off in their own style without them getting paid, yes.

RIP Jessica Walter

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/00/0f/41000fe41448fa496ce429f7aab8dd0c.jpg

https://www.moviemem.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GRANDPRIXHRws.jpg

Grand Prix, 1966

It's a movie poster, Michael, what could Letraset cost - $1000?

as a general rule i think it's bad when artists' work is egregiously ripped off in their own style without them getting paid, yes.

obviously that's a strong concern of mine too, but I don't think King Features Syndicate should have sued Crumb for Segar-bodied figures either. The Stout use of Crumb references is transformative, is not the sole aspect of '60s culture being riffed on, clearly not intended as "passing off," and not the main illustrative focus of the work. (it would be cool if it turns out that Stout used some Lucasbucks to buy original art from Crumb at a con or through DiCaprio or w/e, for sure. I went looking to see if he's said anything about it, and ended up breadcrumbing through this thread...)

Speaking of, American Graffiti (1973) is still holding up above the fold, but let's glance at the quad format version, and note this presumably Spanish version too

but!

by the time AmGraf was re-released in 1978, Stout had done the first ever Star Wars merchandising art, a set of drinking glasses for Burger King.

I was good friends with Charlie Lippincott and Mick Garris. They had just been hired by George Lucas to oversee the merchandising of a new film that he was about to released called Star Wars. I went over to visit those guys; they were in this little office. It was the two of them plus Mick’s wife at the time, Kelly; she was the receptionist/secretary. It was like being on the beach with three friends watching a tsunami heading your way. Three people to handle the entire merchandising for Star Wars!

George Lucas is a very loyal guy. Any time any comic-style work would come up, George would make a call and have me hired. American Graffiti was being re-released. George wanted a new ad campaign for American Graffiti. He insisted that the ad agency, that was reluctant to hire me because they’d never worked with me before, hire me to do a whole bunch of caricatures of the cast of American Graffiti, plus a new movie poster.

I can't find a Stout-looking re-release poster, just the Drucker one with IS BACK! added next to the movie title. But here's one of those caricatures:

https://i.imgur.com/kOAxNTs.jpg

Also still holding up from gr80's original burst of posters is Rock'n'Roll High School (1979), of which Stout said

STOUT: Yeah. I love Roger. He’s an amazing guy. He was very up-front about everything, which was basically… “We’re not going to pay you much, but you’re going to get the chance to do what you want to do.” ...

His movie posters were the same way. He’d hire young people to do his posters. Obviously, they had to be competent. But traditionally, when I would do movie posters, the agency would have me do a whole series of roughs. I’d get so much per rough. From the roughs they’d select a couple of ideas to do as comps – comprehensives – sort of in between a rough and a finish. So I’d do maybe more four or five comps. Then if they liked some of those comps, sometimes they’d have me do a color comp, which was like the poster in color but not quite as finished as a finish but more detailed than a rough. Eventually we’d go to a finish. I got to bill for each of those different steps.

I always made more money from my roughs and comps than from my finishes. At that time I’d rather not do the finish. I had to work slower on a finish and there was the added pressure of it having to be perfect, whereas with the roughs and comps I could just bash ‘em out. Roger Corman didn’t want to spend that kind of money on a movie poster – so I would just show him a thumbnail sketch. He was very lucid visually; he could look at a thumbnail, completely understand it and go, “Yes, Bill. That’s what I want. Go to finish.” So he cut out all of those other steps, saving himself a ton of dough.

I’ll never forget his instructions to me for the Rock ‘n’ Roll High School poster.

“Bill, you can do anything you want — as long as it looks like Animal House.”*

(* also one of the earliest posters itt)

Stout also recalls looking at the LA Times one week in the late '70s and seeing eight of his own posters in the movie calendar section.

Heritage have a scan (backup) of his original art for the Corman/Arkush/Dante/Ramones joint.

I can't find a clear enough version of the Japanese poster to tell if it's Stout (probably not) but it's more than busy enough to note here:

https://i.imgur.com/97ScCqL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/UeNKd2t.jpg

Graffiti first got annotated by Ward back in the neolithic days:

SPIES poster is by moebius
american graffiti by mort drucker

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, October 26, 2013 6:12 AM (seven years ago)

Here's that French S*P*Y*S poster in-thread, and a backup.

Four years later, Doc noted

BTW speaking of the "and remember that other movie" type of poster --- C. Grisso posted a French version of S.P.Y.S (1974) in the early days of this thread, but the differently-drawn American poster hits that theme really hard...

Here's a clearer version - any ideas at the artist? Seems like a promising breadcrumb trail.

Doc also noted the English poster, reformatted for DVD - in quad form, it stands out that part of the Anglicisation was making it big-heads-little-bodies style.

More NEW FILMS TO THREAD... when our programme returns.

https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/55928.jpg

Peeper, 1975

i have some questions about the grammar of the lines beneath the top caricature there - or should the bottom line be above the top one?

lol what is happening there? it looks like an unfinished draft where some fragment of an earlier arrangement of the sentence hasn't gotten caught yet.

also solid solid deep dive post by sic.

but yes i think the one line is just out of order.... bizarre.

That's really weird. I just looked back at other posters for the film, and-when it's used-that sentence usually appears as one unbroken line. I also found another long sheet like the one I posted where it's correctly split over two lines.

So who knows? Sic?