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
ANPA Medal
The American Newspaper Publishers Association held a meeting in New York in February 1941. During the meeting[1] Jerome D Barnum (Syracuse Post-Standard) announced the establishment by the ANPA of a competition with a cash prize of $1,000 and a gold medal. Open to graduate or undergraduate students in a school or college of journalism for the best monograph of 5,000 words on the subject: "The Achievement of the Daily Newspaper in Public Service." He said the competition was to be known as the "ANPA Award for the Advancement of the Daily Newspaper in Its Public Service" and would be an annual prize to be awarded at the conventions with the winner brought to the New York meetings to deliver his or her monograph. Further he said that another cash prize of $500 was to be awarded in a competition to the artist or cartoonist submitting the winning design for the medal.
Later ANPA said[2] that the medal design was open to all members of art departments who was regularly engaged in work for newspapers and to artists engaged in regular work for newspaper syndicates. The entries had to be recieced on or before November 1941. The announcement of the winner was to be made on or before January 1, 1942. The designs submitted was to be done in crayon or pen and ink, and should not exceed 12 inches in diameter. (The gold medal cast from the winning design would be slightly larger than a silver dollar.) On the face of each medal design submitted the following words should be included: "The American Newspaper Publishers Association Award". On the reverse side of the medal the following words should be included: "For Advancement of the Daily Newspaper in Public Service". Space had to be left on the reverse side for insertion of the name of the winner.
Phil Davis won[3] the medal design contest where more than 100 entries participated. He was invited to the ANPA meeting and received the $500 award on December 15, 1941.
"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".
References
- ↑ Brown, Robert U., "ANPA Sees Primary Obligation As Furthering National Defense", Editor and Publisher, April, 26 1941, p 110
- ↑ "ANPA offers $500 to artists", Editor and Publisher, September, 20 1941, p 11
- ↑ "Phil Davis Wins Medal-Design Contest of ANPA", Editor and Publisher, December, 20 1941, p 10
- ↑ James Wright Brown, president of Editor & Publisher
- ↑ Walter M. Dear, president of ANPA
- ↑ Arthur Hays Sulzberger, New York Times publisher