I had the pleasure of meeting Tomi Ungerer many years ago in Cork where I live. He was well liked by those who knew him. I found him charming but liable to make surreal observations spontaneously. I've always admired his quirkiness.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment. I must admit until I made the video I had assumed he had returned to Strasbourg following the USA. Your description of his personaloty is exactly as I would imagine him to have been.

I fell in love with Tomi Ungerer's unique quirky vision when I found his 1971 book "I Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favor ite No Such Stories" in a thrift store back in the '70s. Its stories were foolish, funny, heartwarming, absurd, and riotous. Ah, EXCELLENT, you covered it! I didn't know Ungerer did that DR STRANGELOVE poster. You always delight while you inform. Thank you for all your hard work and dogged research!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and many thanks for your appreciaton and this video in particular. And I wholeheartedly agree with you about that particular book. For me its one of his best and certainly most absurd.

❤❤❤❤ You are a joy and a treasure. Can’t thank you enough for the immense pleasure you bring your viewers! Heartfelt THANK YOUS!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your enthusiastic appreciation of mywork on the channel.

Three Robbers and especially Moon Man were absolute favorites of mine as a kid. I suspect my admiration for graphic designers like Saul Bass and Milton Glaser springs from my early love of Ungerer's work.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment. And oddly enough (or maybe not) I was introduced to the work of Bass, Glaser and Ungerer all at the same time by my college tutor. And admired them all since.

This was a joy. I found my artist. Someone I connect to and want to reference.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm very pleased to hear it.

Brilliant , the genius Ungerer, we had " No Kiss for Mother" for my sons who are in their 40's now and one of them still has it, Thanks Pete

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks a lot. Funnily enough it was a chap by the name of Jonathan Morgan (my college tutor) who introduced me to Ungerer's work.

The Hat and Alement were favorites of mine as a child. Even as a teenager I would pour over the illustrations. I found the books some years later and found Ungerer’s art as engaging and entertaining as I did as a child

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for the comment. As a young man I was attracted to Ungerer's more rebellious side but now I'm old it's the children's books that appeal more.

I thought the illustration style looked familiar, and upon seeing the Dr. Strangelove illustration, it was confirmed. I had also seen a few other of Ungerer's images, and a photo of the cat-shaped school building. Ungerer was quite an interesting artist who was capable of kid friendly and adult natured illustrations. I wonder how well his career would fare in today's social climate. Another fine video, Pete.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot (again) for your comment and support. It seems to me he was getting cancelled long before the term had been coined.

I'd never heard of Ungerer. What a complex, creative and interesting individual. A worthy subject for this latest episode. Thanks Pete for enlightening me yet again.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and in that case I'm very pleased to have introduced you to his work. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Pete, thank you so much for all of the wonderful illustrators you share with us. I have admired this artist since childhood, and now I know who he is.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

When watching these excellent videos, I always end up taking notes!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I'm glad you think the videos are worthy of note-taking.

Wonderful, Pete. Another gem...

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Thanks as ever.

I acquired a copy of Babylon in 1980, I think it's one of the most strangely, fascinating books I've ever looked through and it still sits on my bookshelf today. Enjoyed your narration of his life immensely. Thank you.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I must confess that until I made the video Babylon was one of several I hadn't known about before.

Thank you for unlocking old memories of watching the Three Robbers short film on television back when I was a kid, and for introducing me to this versatile artist!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm pleased you enjoyed the video and Ungerer's body of work. Thanks for the comment.

Tomi Ungerer is one of the prominent illustrators of my youth. So good to see his work again, thank you!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the comment. I was rather shocked to realise I've been an admirer of his work for just over half a century. How did that happen?

Thank-you so much for your wonderful classes! They are some of my favorites in art history! The wonderful illustrations of books and magazines -that the museums and textbooks ignore so terribly.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment. And you nicely summed up precisely why I started the channel in the first place. At least Ungerer gets his own museum in Strasbourg.

Not a surprise. Just a delightful look. I seem to remember back in the seventies Steve Guarnaccia was huge fan of Ungerer's. Thank you for doing this and for being you.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and my thanks once again for your ongong appreciation. And I hadn't heard of Steve Guarnaccia before so thanks for that too.

Such a treat to see this… I'm a huge fan of Ungerer's work, and for those who don't know: there's an excellent documentary on the artist: "Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story". Absolutely worth checking out if you can find and stream it. Another masterclass in images, word and narrative voice-over Pete, thanks so much! Don't know if making these has become easier for you over time, but this flows so well… it's like experiencing a jazz musician completely in the groove. Kudos!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Just call me the Coltrane of illustration videos...

Another totally absorbing episode. I was probably aware of his illustrations but wouldn't have been able to put a name to them. Thanks for putting Ungerer front and centre.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

Such an interesting artist in his ability to transition from children illustrations to erotica. Most of the children books illustrators you feature on here pretty much stay in their lane so to speak...I love his line work, simple and expressive.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

Another Genius!! Another great episode. 🙂 Thanks, Pete.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks as usual for your appreciation.

I am so grateful for your many short videos of illustrators. They always cheers me up, even from glum depressions.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. And funnily enough, actually making the videos has a similar beneficial effect on me.

Ungerer was always an inspiration. I recall studying NO KISS FOR MOTHER to learn how to simplify cats in my drawing. The book was wonderful as well; the main character is portrayed as a real little kid, no sentimentality at all. The HEIDI illustrations and the song book are some of my favorites. Thanks, Pete, for this tour of this very creative artist.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hi again and Im glad you enjoyed the video. I hadn;t known he had illustrated Heidi, and was amazed that he had. On the other hand I've never read it so maybe it's more subversive than I imagine. My personal favourite is the Papa Snap book and of course the Three Robbers.

❤❤❤❤❤ one of the very best children's authors and illustrators ever! fascinating to learn about the rest of his work. thank you so much!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot. I'm glad you appreciate the video and Ungerer's work.

His book Babylon from 1979 seems to still be on sale as a reprint or a second-hand copy. I like it very much. Thank you for this wonderful presentation about Tomi Ungerer.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks alot for your appreciation of this video and my contribution to it.

Again I can’t overstate what an incredible public resource this is. Just bravo.

@petebeard

5 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your appreciation for the channel. It's a genuine pleasure to know the work is valued by viewers such as yourself.

Now you're getting into artists I can remember very well from my maturity! Unlike your last subjects, Ungerer is very stylistically consistent. He never gets into a box like Kincade but an Ungerer in any medium is undoubtedly an Ungerer. But he does bring up that pesky question of what (if anything) more than the artwork itself we do (or should) demand of a children's book illustrator. I think a pedophile would (still) be excluded from the field, be he ever so talented, but what happens as we work our way back "in?" Although this is a question that has been asked of others, notably Shel Silverstein and (in his own way) Maurice Sendak. And it does not help that virtually the only book illustration now being produced (aside from "gift" or "ostentation" classics) is for children's books!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and yours is the kind of comment and observation I used to enjoy with other illustrators and like-minded souls over too many beers. One of the recurring issues that seems to feature with many of the illustrators I have featured is the work versus the dubious and sometimes worse character/lifestyle choices of the person in question.In Ungerer's case I'm sure he couldn't see that there might be a problem. In Europe and especially France he would have just been one of a very large number who had no problem creating kid's work and smutty stuff simultaneously.

@wynnschaible

8 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Three young kids on a farm in France, they pass the barn and see the milkmaid getting it on with the plowman, "Look at the grownups fighting," says the 4-year-old. "They are not fighting," says the 5-year-old with a superior smirk, "they are making love." "Yes," says the 6-year-old. "And badly."

The Beast of Monsieur Racine is still one of my favorites from childhood

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I must admit I hadn't heard of that book until I made the video.

Great video. What an interesting and complex character he was. Thankyou.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your comment.

Well,... I have been a fan of Mr. Ungerer for many years... his style was always a puzzle to me. My illustrations are all tight and well rendered for the most part... he is the antithesis of me! Your video captured the "Good/Bad" relationship he had with the public... I think many of us appreciated his quirkiness. Great video!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. Ungerer is one of those illustrator's whose work shouldn't really appeal to me (and some of it doesn't) given my usual preferences. But I really like most of the kid's book work for reasons I'm not sure about.

Thank you for acquainting me with Ungerer's work. So consistently inspired and diverse, whether for children or adults.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and it's always a pleasure to know I've made such an introduction.

@scottsatterthwaite5056

8 ай бұрын

Based on the enthusiasm from friends I've told about your channel, you've made many such introductions.@@petebeard

I see that KZread played a role in your presentation. You deserve a blanket dispensation from their restrictions. Your every video defines scholarship.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channle and my contribution. Not sure what you are referring to with the bit about youtube though - what am I missing?

@dlschgo

8 ай бұрын

There were a couple "adult" images that first appeared blank , then transitioned to the image just before it disappeared.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the clarification. That sent me scuttling to check what censorious monstrosity had been committed by the youtube gremlins. But they all seemed intact and uncensored Im pleased to say, so I can only imagine it was your device having a bad hair day or some other technical hitch.

@dlschgo

8 ай бұрын

I don't know what happened. Since your last comment,

I’d never heard of him but thanks to you, I now have. What a talent and so versatile and varied. My type of artist!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

I'm very pleased to have introduced you to his work.

Thanks again for covering an illustrator I knew little about, but probably saw his colorful posters in the 1960s.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome - thanks for the comment.

What a wonderful and multi talented artist! What a bio to be inspired

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and Im very glad you think so.

I grew up in the USA in the '60's and oddly never heard of Mr. Ungerer until now. Although I do recognize some of the illustrations.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your comment.

Thanks again for sharing! Fascinated by pictures and your commentary. I enjoy the artists you choose and learning about them. Many of them are New to me. Cheers!

@petebeard

5 ай бұрын

Thanks to you for your flattering comment, which is music to my ears.

Genius work... thanks for sharing!!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation.

Thanks for your focus on the artistic and personal life of Ungerers strange and odd projects. His children's works and his desire for peace is my favorite part of his variety of things that he offered to us Thanks again for your help in understanding the lives and the works of so many different artists. ❤

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation of this video and Ungerer's work. And for the channel in general - it's very welcome.

🥰🤩💯👍BRAVO! Excellent video!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the appreciation as ever.

wow, I am also an Illustrator and author and knew of Tomi's work but not in depth, what wonderful versatility. I feel that happens a lot in the illustration world, many artists don't explore and stay in the same formula for years and years. What a great example Tomi is for artistic exploration.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I took a look at some of your own work, which I found very entertaining, and I can see why you would be drawn to Ungerer's work. It's great to see that contemporary illustrators such as yourself are still using it to express their distinct visual personality.

Thanks Pete, I remember his work from when I was a teen.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you, I love his Children's books!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I must admit as a young rebel without a clue it was his more provocative dissident work I most admired but now I'm old it's the children's books that give me greater pleasure.

One of the most importants!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and that is true. Thanks for the comment.

@thomasgeissberger57

8 ай бұрын

There was a time, Ungere liked to stay at Zurich. It must be 35 years ago I had the pleasure and honor to meet him instantly at famous "Franziskaner" restaurant which he often frequented. I was a student then, and I admired him very much. He gave me an advice I never really could follow: "Never use an eraser".

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hi again and thanks for that extra insight. You can see how not using an eraser would make sense for him, but many of us would have to ignore that piece of advice, I think.

@thomasgeissberger57

8 ай бұрын

He just meat: don't try to correct anything at your drawing. Should you fail, throw it away and start again. He lives like that...

It was a great video, like all the work you have done. Thank you very much.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for that flattering comment. I'm glad you enjoyed his illustrations.

Fantastic works!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work.

@kubagornowicz

8 ай бұрын

​@@petebeard - and your's too! :)

You are a fabulous educator. Thank you.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and that's a very nice hing to say. It means a lot.

Fascinating illustrator and artist.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.

*love* Tomi Ungerer! Extremely well described and very interesting. Subscribed.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. And for your subscription - I need as many as I can get.

Brilliant as ever -cheers pete

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and my thanks for the comment as usual.

Such amazing diversity!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your comment. He was one of a kind, for sure.

Fantastic, as always!!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hi and thanks for the positive comment.

I did not realize the author of Cricktor, one of my favorites, did sooooo much more (including pictures of prostitutes). This was so informative. I had no idea about him except to notice that his name seemed very familiar but I was not sure why. Thanks for this!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks fr your comment. I;m glad i could introduce you to the broad scope of his work.

Another really good episode. I've never heard of most of your subjects but i enjoy listening and learning with your creations. When will you do Pete Beard I've heard of him but know nthing about his illustrations.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. And regarding the wonderful Pete Beard I can't do him as he isn't dead - yet. There is a short compilation of some of my work as an illustrator in very poor resolution on the channel from 2016. 'Pete Beard Portfolio' will take you there if you're interested.

A lot of the pictures were familiar but until now I had no clue who drew them. Now I know. Never saw the more ‘erotic’ ones and I doubt one could find them today at my local Barnes and Noble. What a talent. Thanks for this one.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hi again and many thanks for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Personally I'm not wild about the sexual stuff - not because I'm a prude - It just seems lacking a more human touch. But most of his output was really rewarding.

Really enjoyed this one! Wow.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.

LOVE this one, too! Tnx!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hi Mike and thanks as usual. many more to come of course.

Thanks again for the enlightenment.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and you are more than welcome.

Ungerer was a complex man. His art reflex that. Good for him!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment.

💟 Thank you..

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure.

Lovely video. I appreciate the challenge you face when displaying vertical artwork on a horizontal screen. You almost want to post TURN YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS at times, but motion sickness would be a distinct possibility.

@petebeard

5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the appreciation, and yes - portrait v landscape format is occasionally less than ideal, but such is life. The bigger the screen device the better of course.

Thanks, Pete. Interesting how is style evolved over time

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks as ever for your comment. This is why I don't feature the living - you don't know the story until it's over.

I didn't recognize anything except No Kiss for Mother. I'm surprised at how many more colorful (in more than one sense of the word) books he illustrated.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad to have introduced you to more of his work.

🖤

Well done.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ *Thanks Pete*

Wow. I envy this guy with the amount of success he achieved and his ability to keep it simple. it's as if he knew what he was going to do with his life as a child and didn't see any reason to learn subjects in school that he would never use. It sounds like he didh't really sudy art acedemically that much and although his work apeared somewhat imature when he started out he met with success all along the way. If it were me I would have said to myself you have to be a better artist than that if you're going to make it. Obviously I would have been wrong. Thanks Pete.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and you make some interesting observations in your comment. It seems to me that luck certainly had a hand in his early success, but he was one of several illustrators I really admire for proving that illustration is frequently not about how well you draw or paint in conventional terms. And kids in particular (and adults of a more bohemian disposition) really seem not to care at all. I tried to tell my less talented students this but few could be persuaded and now they work at McDonalds or similar.

👍Thank you.🇬🇧🇵🇹

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and you are very welcome.

Interesting. His pen and ink work reminds me of the illustrations of James Thurber.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the comment. I greatly admire Tgurber's scribbles too, but in his case it was because he couldn't draw, whereas Ungerer frequently chose not to.

@dbensdrawinvids8390

8 ай бұрын

@@petebeard really? Didn't know Thurber was graphically disinclined. I had assumed it was a stylistic choice.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and yes I'm afraid its true - not that I think it ultimately matters I suppose. His images still make me laugh like a drain. The man himself always said this was the case in articles he wrote and it wasn't helped by the fact that in middle age he started losing his sight quite dramatically.

he really is great, i have a signed copy of the three robbers story

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video.

great video (I'm sure the kids don't call them that, but I'm 54 and I do!!) Thank you

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks - and who cares what the kids call anything? I've been a much happier man since I stopped trying to teach the largely unteachable little snivellers.

The cat building, great design.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for both your recent comments. I would imagine that Eichenberg's pen and ink stuff would be your kind of thing, as it is mine. And imagine how much more fun life would be if all buildings were humorously designed.

@theinkpirate2710

8 ай бұрын

@@petebeard It always amazes me when I think I've seen a lot of inspiring artist, you keep making amazing episodes. Your channel inspired a cartoon style in pen and ink that led me to a gallary wanting 5 works by December, don't know how, but sleepless nights for art, anytime and always. Thank you again for what you do💪

I always thought he was called Tom and not Tomi and I didn't know his french/german background, always thought he was American. Very interesting.

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.

He was a great favourite of the late Raymond Briggs

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello again and I didn't know that and wouldn't have seen much of a connection. But that last book The Fog did have a certain similarity of execution. Or maybe his admiration was more to do with imagination and broad disposition than style, now I think about it.

Apologies for the rather uninspired repetition, but : thank you Mr Pete

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and don't apologise - I'll take all forms of appreciation from emojis through to dissertations.

wow, quite a life...

@petebeard

3 ай бұрын

It certainly was. Thanks for the comment.

Its cool that he could do such extreme polar opposites of work and carry on, in the UK weve had two of our major newspaper cartoonistz cancelled, Steve Bell and another guy i cant remember... shows you how intolerant these times are... satirical cartoonists had more freedom in tbe 17th hundreds than now. A warning of what is to come maybe, his books are hard to get in the UK...

@petebeard

5 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and insight. I've been censored a few times myself when working in illustration, and it's something that makes my blood pressure leap to unhealthy levels. But it's been a problem for as long as there's been illustration and I don't suppose it's going to stop any time soon.

Not to my taste, but a fascinating episode…

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks. I'm glad you watch even if it's not your cup of tea.

I agree that doing any kind of porn is an instant career killer ... can't be both...one must choose

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

And again thanks a lot. I think in Ungerers case he was probably quite surprised about the negative reaction to that side of his work and its incompatibility with children's illustration. But in many parts of Europe and particularly in France there were (and probably still are) many who worked in both arenas and nobody was particularly bothered. The USA and Britain are not of the same opinion though.

So perverse and morally corrupt lives on

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

That's certainly one way of putting it.

I love this channel! Thank you!

@petebeard

8 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad you enjoy the content. Thanks a lot.