Richard Scarry

Coming to think of it... Was he a Nazi? Lots of German/Austrian imagery (the characters wear lederhosen ffs) and the 3 beggars were all African mammals. Bananas gorilla wore a bunch of watches (common black thing at the time), constantly stole shit, and straight up looks like an old black guy. The planes he drew were all luftwaffe designs, and the bankers were all pigs and boars. There is even an episode about an old boar hating Christmas because he's (((grouchy))). The original books all had pretty rigid gender roles, which was common for the time, but hey, it feeds a fun theory. Was he just an Allemagnophile or was he a sympathizer?

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I strongly doubt Scarry was a Wehraboo, he probably just liked the German style of life.
Funnily enough, as a young boy I had no doubt the books were from a fellow German, since it all seemed to be just like in real life.

Rats would have been more fitting for a banker, I think.

The better question would be........... does Sup Forums knows you're gone?

See, if he was from Germany or Austria I would agree but I he was from Boston.

Do we know if he has gernan roots? Maybe he ead alot of german fables or other stories involving animal characters. It was very popular in germany, maybe he stumbled or one?

Idk but I fucking love Richard Scary. I still have my ABCs learning to read book. It's packed away but I want to scan it and have kindergarten tier storytime with Sup Forums next year.

I hardly remember the cartoon but have fond memories of it.

Hell yes, I love Richard Scarry too. Pretty sure he's Irish or something.

I love his art, I find it soft and comforting to look at.

>that artist
What a d00d.

That's some expensive ass corn.

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He was probably going for an ye olde times look first and foremost.

Kinda like how the frenchmen who painted all those erotic boy scout comics weren't trying to be erotic, they just painted in the style of 1930s commercial illustrations they knew.

that would be pretty...Scarry, wouldn't it?

There was a videogame?

For sega pico. I had it . Not much of a game really

I remember there was a pc game.

RICHARD SCARRY WAS SOCDEM
But seriously, I've always read his work in the context of the postwar Keynesian boom, where targeting full employment (while keeping a reasonably free market with public utilities) was the goal of most national governments. The very telling thing in "What do people do all day?" is that there's no category for the unemployed. Now you could (if you wanted to be directly rational about it) just say "Well yeah, nobody wants to tell kids about the permanently unemployed underclass, it's not exactly a cheerful topic", but is it not more interesting to consider there was once a time when it was completely unnecessary to consider doing so, because it was such a minor point?

There is another thing to consider, which is the nature of the economy in "What do people do all day?" itself. Basically everyone does an obvious and tangible job. There are no flocks of management staff screwing things from above, of executive marketing consultants, of derivatives traders. The only two things that stand out is that "What do people do all day?" has a positive view of coal power, and nothing to touch on large scale manufacturing. (Understandable given the small-town style approach, but also removes a major "Well that aged well." thump as 2017 crashes into 1964.)

Now you could say I'm reading too much into it, but is it not interesting that when people look for a book "like this", odds are they're just going to pick up the old Scarry book rather than find one that describes a modern service economy? "Dad digs coal" makes intuitive sense, "Dad trades money for paper that lets him take over companies he'll never visit so they can be shut down and have their machines sold to get dad more money, which means dad gets a bonus and we get to go on holiday to Dubai" less so. (That said, an edgy modern version along those lines - as a joke for Dad - would probably seem more crass than fun.)

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I REMEMBER
RICHARD SCARRY'S BUSYTOWN
DOS
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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>erotic boy scout comics
Go on

I might give this book a look.

In 1972 the Scarrys bought a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland. Here he founded his studio where he spent most of the day (from about 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) writing and illustrating his books. His studio contained a single desk, lamp and chair. His wife was told not to bother him except for his hour break for lunch.

His son, Richard Scarry, Jr., is also an illustrator, sometimes working under the nickname Huck Scarry, sometimes working in his father's style as Richard Scarry. Huck is the nickname of Huckle Cat, one of the most commonly recurring Busytown characters. Scarry Jr. lives in Vienna, Austria.

Scarry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his parents ran a shop. The Scarry family enjoyed a comfortable life even during the time of the Great Depression. Following high school graduation, Scarry enrolled in a business college but soon dropped out, finding it not to his liking. He then studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he remained until being drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, Scarry worked for the art departments of various magazines before making a career breakthrough in 1949 with Little Golden Books.

>with stickers
Fuck you I want a penet

I had the Pico game. Had some satisfying sound effects when you crashed into things with Mr. Fumble's car. I also had the magic school bus game and a Winnie the pooh game.