{"id":1136,"date":"2013-02-04T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:04:40","slug":"remembering-luisa-felix-and-candy-blondell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/remembering-luisa-felix-and-candy-blondell\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Luisa Felix and Candy Blondell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/em>I heard some sad news over the weekend that cartoonist Luisa Felix, creator of comic strip Candy Blondell<\/em>, had passed away. Luisa was a big fan of my work and I was a big fan of hers.\u00a0 Although I never met her in person, we had frequent email correspondence critiquing each other\u2019s work and conversing about cartoons in general.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that she passed away before having a real chance to be recognized and I wanted to take some time to honor her memory.<\/p>\n

Most of you probably never heard of Luisa\u2019s comic, Candy Blondell<\/em>.\u00a0 It was a nostalgia web comic about the golden days of Hollywood.\u00a0 The main character, Candy, was a waitress turned famous Hollywood actress.\u00a0 The character of Candy was inspired by real actress Jean Harlow and cartoon character Betty Boop<\/em>.\u00a0 In fact, Candy Blondell was created specifically to be Betty Boop\u2019s competition.\"\"<\/p>\n

Luisa Felix drew the strip for many years, but was unable to do regular updates because of ongoing health issues.\u00a0 Luisa\u2019s work had a very classic 1930s style of art, which is very unique among the current crop of web comics available today.\u00a0 Her stories were funny and creative and her characters were quirky and classical \u2013 Candy Blondell was a throwback to a more simpler time in comics.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame Luisa wasn\u2019t more successful because her talent is as good — if not better — than any professional comic strip that you can read in bookstores or in newspapers.<\/p>\n

Luisa\u2019s work is still available to read online and is definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n

Click Here<\/a> to see some Candy Blondell<\/em> artwork and stories from 2010 and earlier on ComicSpace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click Here<\/a> to see more recent stories and artwork of Candy Blondell<\/em> on GoComics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click Here<\/a> for an in depth article of Candy Blondell<\/em> on Comic Creators United<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard some sad news over the weekend that cartoonist Luisa Felix, creator of comic strip Candy Blondell, had passed away. Luisa was a big fan of my work and I was a big fan of hers.\u00a0 Although I never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-francisbonnet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ZZIB-ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}