Spotlight on Phil Davis - Other illustrations
Before his career as a comic artist Phil Davis worked as free lance illustrator, drawing various advertising illustrations.
The Liberty magazine
Phil Davis did one cover for Liberty magazine.
"Liberty" magazine: September 9, 1933
American Newspaper Publishers Association
In 1941, Phil Davis received a $500 award as the winner of a medal-design contest of the American Newspaper Publishers Association ($ 500). The medal he designed was presented annually to the winner of an annual essay contest open to students of journalism on The Achievement of the Daily Newspaper in Public Service.
James Wright Brown,
Phil Davis,
Walter M. Dear and
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
"Daily Illini" newspaper, December 16 1941
Curtis Wright Air-craft
During WW2 he served as an art director for Curtis-Wright Aircraft Corp in St. Louis. He did most of the technical illustrations for the instruction book of the Curtiss A-25 Dive Bomber, and found time to write the operational data for the radio equipment used by the plane.
Various advertising illustrations
Early 40's Phil Davis took up his career as illustrator, doing art work for the D'Arcy Advertising Co.
Defense Bonds illustration
During the World War II, he illustratied some ads exhortating to buy government war bonds.
Mandrake entertains the Campus Queen, 1942 illustration published in the "University of Missouri Showme Magazine"
by Phil Davis
Post-Dispatch
For St. Louis Post-Despatch he did a presentation of the "Comic Artists Lee Falk and Phil Davis in 1951.
Lee Falk and Phil Davis
Book illustration
Illustration, published in format 22,85 x 16,50 cm, for the William Randolph Hearst Birthday 1943 Book.
In 1948 he illustratied the book "Chuck Dressler".
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