Post 715 - The "Official Program" for the 1926 MGM Production of "Ben Hur"

Cast and crew, synopsis, Broadway performance history, and essay on the celebrated chariot race.

From the original program in the Animating Apothecary Archives - click on image to enlarge

(cc) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

It's in the public domain - and whatever isn't shared, is lost!

Post 714 - January 2025 ASIFA Central Newsletter

 Fourteen pages - go large or go home!

(Ok, it's all digital, no need to get hyperbolic - bad for the digestion, after all)

Here and at asifa.org

(cc) 2025 - ASIFA Central

Post 713 - January 2025 Sketch Scans

 Some date back to 2022.  Oooh, Old School!

Note to self - blue ink doesn't CZUR scan well

Need to adjust contrast

Step Lively #1

Step Lively #2

Group Photo

Disturbed Princess, or Zombie Homecoming Queen

For ASIFA Central IAD project - test for Plympton style

Using up some Prismacolor

More IAD Plympton poster testing

Plympton IAD Poster test #3

"There once was a ship that went to seeeee...."

I dreamt of tongue depressors

The Soft Road to Nowhere

Schematic

I can pretty much draw these from memory now-adays.

Pencil sketch of rainbow sax

Pencil sketch of single-panel gag

Ever dangling overhead...

Playing with forced perspective

Legal alien, paperwork filed by AI

Oh let's just make swirls

When life hands you ice...

 All material (c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary