“My Favorite Movies” Series: Artists and Models

I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 59:

Artists and Models This is an old favorite that always seemed to be on TV all the time when I was a kid. In addition to just being a funny movie, it has the added appeal of being centered around comics and comic book artists.

Since this film is a comtemporary or near contemporary of Frederic Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent,” you can see similar views expressed by characters within the film. Of course, Wertham’s book and the resulting congressional investigation led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority, the comic world’s equivalent of the Hays code. The Comics Code Authority, in the name of protecting the children of America, retarded the development of the industry so much so that one will find it became wildly divergent in sophistication and popularity from its analogues in Japan and the European continent.

…But that’s more than you needed to know! Anyway, I couldn’t find a trailer so I just posted a clip of my favorite scene: The Bat-lady/Fat-lady scene.