How To Make Comps the Good Old Way.

I just recently acquired these announcement, envelope, and invitation envelope comps, created in circa 1930-1940. The comps are by Harry Brown.

The artwork is amazingly fluid, and appears easily done. It’s pure poetry.
His on the fly comps would stand as final artwork now a days.
This is partly because Harry Brown was a prolific and well known illustrator for many different American magazines, brands, and labels.

Below are also a few of his New Yorker illustration covers.