Danbury Mint Porch Flags?

[Ned Sonntag]

I haven't checked in in awhile so I wanted to whet you kids' appetites about a new project on the drawing boards... things seemed to go well last week with my first sketch for a proposed series of porch-flags-for-each-month from the fabulous Danbury Mint! Nothing's set in stone yet but I did a rockin' October/Halloween sketch to start off. I suppose some of you real True Believers have those big fiberglass BB statues in your front yards, but short of that, these flags will be a great way to identify your condo as an official Temple of Betty.;)

[richard kolasch]

do you have any idea when they will come out?

[Bikerbettyboop]

Hi Ned... you should post this in the What's New part of the forum. Do you have pics yet?

[Ned Sonntag]

It's a nice sketch but it'll likely go thru more changes before the final ink stage.

[Bikerbettyboop]

Oh, ok be sure and share it here with us too, ok?

I have a quick question for you regarding images... do you know who first created Betty Boop sitting on the motorcycle? The first time I saw it was around 1993/1994. I love that image... it's my favorite!

[Ned Sonntag]

Eddie Jabbour was the art director at a garmento which made fabulous sweater/jackets sort of riffing on highschool 'team jackets'... as I say in my Tattoo post this morning, about the same time I got the BB job in '85, I was hired as fiction illustrator for OUTLAW BIKER Magazine, which now also does SKIN ART, TATTOOS FOR WOMEN, and a bunch of similar 'zines. So I had had to learn how to draw every Harley model from every angle... so I kept bugging Licensing to do Biker Betty... I still have a sketch from '87 of 'Betty's Bike Repair Shop with Bimbo sitting on the floor all greasy from disassembling a motorcycle. Our leader Ita Goltzman just didn't think the whole idea was ladylike!:eek: But the next year Eddie, being cognizant of how fashionable the whole Biker Chick look was becoming came to KFS Licensing and asked for it explicitly... anybody who bought one of JG Hook's BikerBetty leather&fabric team jackets has a real collector's item.

[boopie1969]

Eddie Jabbour was the art director at a garmento which made fabulous sweater/jackets sort of riffing on highschool 'team jackets'... as I say in my Tattoo post this morning, about the same time I got the BB job in '85, I was hired as fiction illustrator for OUTLAW BIKER Magazine, which now also does SKIN ART, TATTOOS FOR WOMEN, and a bunch of similar 'zines. So I had had to learn how to draw every Harley model from every angle... so I kept bugging Licensing to do Biker Betty... I still have a sketch from '87 of 'Betty's Bike Repair Shop with Bimbo sitting on the floor all greasy from disassembling a motorcycle. Our leader Ita Goltzman just didn't think the whole idea was ladylike!:eek: But the next year Eddie, being cognizant of how fashionable the whole Biker Chick look was becoming came to KFS Licensing and asked for it explicitly... anybody who bought one of JG Hook's BikerBetty leather&fabric team jackets has a real collector's item.

I don't have the leather and fabric biker jacket, mine is all leather. It's betty's head with her biker hat on it says Betty Boop Motorcyle Club. Love that jacket but have to get the zipper repaired. Doesn't work like it's suppose to anymore. I'm afraid to just drop off somewhere and leave it, I'm afraid I would have to be standing there watching the whole time they repair it. I don't want to loose my fav jacket.

boopie

[Ned Sonntag]

what I meant but there may have been a bunch of different variations. I wonder what yours would go for at auction? Yeah don't let it out of your sight.

[Bikerbettyboop]

I just sold one of my Betty Boop Motorcycle jackets on eBay... I only got $25.00 for it! It was like brand new!

[Bikerbettyboop]

So is Eddie Jabbour the one who created the Betty Boop sitting on the motorcycle look? Have you spoken to King Features recently about using the Betty Boop Bimbo garage artwork? She may have changed her mind by now... give it a shot!

[Ned Sonntag]

Eddie was the art director for JG Hook... Graham Halky may have still been my AD at KFS, along with Beth Firman... who by the way will be having a show of her new paintings for the third time in midAugust at the Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown... so these 3 folks said to me, do BB as a Biker Chick and I did... Graham left shortly after, I think, and Beth got Grant King in there... Frank started as Grant's assistant...

[Sophia1002]

So when can I see your sketch posted on?:D

[richard kolasch]

hi Ned,can you tell about the cartoon cell from the 30s?
i have one in frame.

[Bikerbettyboop]

So Ned, you still didn't answer my question.....who created the Betty Boop sitting on the motorcycle look?

[Ned Sonntag]

It was me! I'm sayin', I'd been drawing Harleys in my OUTLAW BIKER Magazine fiction-illustrations for a couple of years already when I started bugging Ita to do a Biker Betty Style Guide. It was a year later when Eddie made the request and I got the go-ahead. We did 8 basic images... the one in your avatar, the one where she's leaning on the handlebars with the Dixie flag bandanna on her head, a couple where she's hitchhiking with a gas can, the one looking over her shoulder winking with the Wild One cap, etc... the one where she's roaring at you winking;) , with the headlight and striped cropped top, famously ended up as a fridge magnet prominently featured on Anna Nicole Smith's TV Show...:eek:

[boopie1969]

It was me! I'm sayin', I'd been drawing Harleys in my OUTLAW BIKER Magazine fiction-illustrations for a couple of years already when I started bugging Ita to do a Biker Betty Style Guide. It was a year later when Eddie made the request and I got the go-ahead. We did 8 basic images... the one in your avatar, the one where she's leaning on the handlebars with the Dixie flag bandanna on her head, a couple where she's hitchhiking with a gas can, the one looking over her shoulder winking with the Wild One cap, etc... the one where she's roaring at you winking;) , with the headlight and striped cropped top, famously ended up as a fridge magnet prominently featured on Anna Nicole Smith's TV Show...:eek:

I have all those images in some form or another. I love them. Thanks for creating them, you're awesome.

boopie

[Sophia1002]

Yes, Neg is really awesome.
Honestly, Betty on Harley is really so cool.

[bettyboopfan]

It was me! I'm sayin', I'd been drawing Harleys in my OUTLAW BIKER Magazine fiction-illustrations for a couple of years already when I started bugging Ita to do a Biker Betty Style Guide. It was a year later when Eddie made the request and I got the go-ahead. We did 8 basic images... the one in your avatar, the one where she's leaning on the handlebars with the Dixie flag bandanna on her head, a couple where she's hitchhiking with a gas can, the one looking over her shoulder winking with the Wild One cap, etc... the one where she's roaring at you winking;) , with the headlight and striped cropped top, famously ended up as a fridge magnet prominently featured on Anna Nicole Smith's TV Show...:eek:


Pure talent!!! Thanks so much!!

[Bikerbettyboop]

It was me! I'm sayin', I'd been drawing Harleys in my OUTLAW BIKER Magazine fiction-illustrations for a couple of years already when I started bugging Ita to do a Biker Betty Style Guide. It was a year later when Eddie made the request and I got the go-ahead. We did 8 basic images... the one in your avatar, the one where she's leaning on the handlebars with the Dixie flag bandanna on her head, a couple where she's hitchhiking with a gas can, the one looking over her shoulder winking with the Wild One cap, etc... the one where she's roaring at you winking;) , with the headlight and striped cropped top, famously ended up as a fridge magnet prominently featured on Anna Nicole Smith's TV Show...:eek:

Wow that is so awesome... sorry for my ignorance and not totally understanding your statement before... so it was you who created our Biker Betty image. As you know, that's my favorite! I've been riding a Harley for 3 years but have been a Biker Betty fan since I found my first t-shirt in Laughlin in '94 or '95! Did you know that I am president of the Betty Boop Motorcycle Club? Started it in 1998 and we have members all around the world!! You don't need to ride a motorcycle to be a member, just love abnd support Betty Boop's motorcycle image!!

I have all the images that you've created in one way or another throughout my home and office and I have a whole department dedicated to Biker Betty on our e-commerce website!

Wow that's amazing! Good for you!! So that being said, can I have your autograph?

How do you feel about those folks who have taken your drawings and changed them? like the nude stuff? It drives me crazy when I see it changed that way.

[Ned Sonntag]

Right, that 'perky' one with the black leather thigh-high boots & long gloves... I just ImageGoogled "Betty Boop" and when I did so about 6 weeks ago that one was #1, airbrushed onto a Harley gas tank... (this time there's so much new stuff...! I looked at the 33 'relevant' pages of the 44,000 entries)... anyway technically the ******s are too big; Beth Firmin always told me, "no larger than Champagne cups"... :eek: But as an illustration, somebody put in the time and the research, blending in some old pinup art, so I like it... but certainly if you conceive of BB as an Aristotelian ideal, an actual conscious entity up in Toon Heaven nourished by the worship of all of us, looking down and returning our love via Morphic Resonance, ... that image could be termed heretical... Can we start a new thread about the theological implications of Bettyworship, or is that going to touch off a flamewar?

[richard kolasch]

To Ned,,keep up the good work.

[Bikerbettyboop]

Right, that 'perky' one with the black leather thigh-high boots & long gloves... I just ImageGoogled "Betty Boop" and when I did so about 6 weeks ago that one was #1, airbrushed onto a Harley gas tank... (this time there's so much new stuff...! I looked at the 33 'relevant' pages of the 44,000 entries)... anyway technically the ******s are too big; Beth Firmin always told me, "no larger than Champagne cups"... :eek: But as an illustration, somebody put in the time and the research, blending in some old pinup art, so I like it... but certainly if you conceive of BB as an Aristotelian ideal, an actual conscious entity up in Toon Heaven nourished by the worship of all of us, looking down and returning our love via Morphic Resonance, ... that image could be termed heretical... Can we start a new thread about the theological implications of Bettyworship, or is that going to touch off a flamewar?

Hey Ned, this is just way too philosophical for me.. LOL!!! I chuckled at the champagne cups! LOL!!!

Start the new thread if you want too.. might be interesting to see what kind of remarks and/or flamewar will come out of it... LOL!!

[Bikerbettyboop]

Hey Nedster... come back and visit and share some more artistic wisdom with us.

[Ned Sonntag]

The humidity is mindbending here in the tropical hades of Cape Cod... I have two small illustrations due for OUTLAW BIKER Magazine... I think I'll go into the bedroom, crank up the AC and scribble some thumbnail sketches into my deskside spiralbound notebook... after I give the older cats their thyroid medicine...:D

[Bikerbettyboop]

Sounds like you're keeping busy Ned. Do you ride a motorcycle too? Glad to see you checked back in. Keep us posted on any current Betty Boop projects you may be working on. Hope the cats are ok. How many do you have?

[eddieaj]

hi all
I'm just seeing this now. the person in my studio at j.g. hook who created that biker betty art was the incredibly talented artist Ed Rivera. I have the original inking.
regards,
Eddie Jabbour