Page 18 A visit from Aunt Bunny
skyangel on May 4, 2024
We always called her Aunt Bunny and she was in fact my grandmother's sister but to this day I'm not sure what her real name was but she had this lump on her cheek which always made me think it was Bunny for Bunion. Besides that though this was a pivotal moment in my life because it was Aunt Bunny's scrapbooks which set me on the path to becoming the artist I am today as well as giving me my first ever glimpse of ‘Sarah’,
but more on that next week!
PS: As a trip into nostalgia I have included the Matchbox Superfast car set that me and my brother used to play with, which was hugely popular in the UK at around that time. I don't know if they had such a thing in the US but Mattel probably did something very similar as well.
tommym at 12:39AM, May 11, 2024
Dear Sky, So interesting how some people can develope! I did not care for the loop the loop race track as it was limited in what it could do. What was a lot more fun was the single car in a box. It clearly said "Made in England" Grand father bought it for me. It was a silver colored race car an imagination forestered ... in my head... in my head... cran berry zombies linger. Would not the type of scrap book one is presented with, will affect learning process studies. May be if the scrape book was configured as a comic, Big Brother might have liked it...Post Script Grand father also brought to me a build it your self model of a Nautalis Submarine with polaris nuke tipped missles great ..dipiction of the real thing. tommym
Ironscarf at 7:46AM, May 9, 2024
Gosh I think I had one of those matchbox things, completely forgotten about it until I saw this! Lovely colour scheme on this page which seems to fit well with the old scrapbook theme somehow. Maybe it's the muted greens. Strange how we focus so much on those little distinguishing features at that age.
skyangel at 12:54PM, May 9, 2024
I think ours was given to us second hand, it certainly wasn't a Christmas Present, and we had to clamp it to a table to create a sloop as we didn't have the turbo charger they have in the panel here. We probably spent more time setting it up than playing with it!
UnderTheBlackHat at 7:40AM, May 5, 2024
Oh another great page. Matchbox and track and all! A double loop! You had the good stuff huh! Oh and yes, in the U.S. we had both Matchbox and Hot Wheels - Competing side by side. So Aunt Bunny might be able to do a 'Lemmy' impression! LOL! Sorry, that just leapt to mind and is obviously one of those things that stuck with you for... well a long time. On the note about our 'ancestors', it truly is amazing how some things have changed hmm? The writer had a Grandma that made (according to reports) the most amazing, creamy, addictive Macaroni and Cheese ever seen on the planet. But since it was all by hand from scratch, the recipe has gone with the winds of time. The fact that as a child, you were enthralled by the thoughts and doings of the past, it shows how little Nick was maturing and possibly finding that inspiration he needed, as opposed to his brother. (although we all agree comics are still a good thing). Once again, thank you for a wonderful and nostalgic page.
skyangel at 9:24AM, May 5, 2024
UBH: I think the biggest mistake nearly all of us make is to assume that the things around us will stay the same forever, until they finally disappear and we realise their existence only survives now as memory. With art especially though I was always fascinated by the beautiful painted ads used in magazines right up until colour photography was invented and how they often made the product look more exciting than a simple photo could. Macaroni and cheese sounds such a simple recipe too yet experimenting to find out what secret ingredient or process grandma used could take a lifetime! I wonder if anyone can remember the normal contents of her pantry to try and work out what she did! ...'Hot Wheels' is the name that eluded me when writing my editorial but it's lovely to know that both them and Matchbox are still going strong, even today!
Othosmops at 12:31PM, May 4, 2024
It's fascinating when two-dimensional paste-up pictures are transformed into three-dimensional experiences by the time travel factor - and that at such an early age. My grandmother had an encyclopaedia (a single volume) with black and white photographs and graphics that was already very old at the time when I discovered it, and it had a similarly inspiring effect on me. I still have the book today.
skyangel at 1:29AM, May 5, 2024
That's a lovely way of putting it! It is a form of time travel for sure because it takes a number of years to realise how the influences in art and design especially are pretty unique to the time we grew up in so anything before that can seem like it came from a different world. I'm glad you still have the book as just holding it will always feel really special.