# What kind of image/drawing is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2014, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780 "2014-10-19T07:37:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/1 "2014-10-19T07:37:35Z")
On this webpage, the main image on the link below, and the images listed under “Similar images” is the kind of artwork that I’m trying to find a name for. Can anybody tell me what, if any, is the proper name for this kind of artwork? I need to know because I will be needing something similar for my business advertisement, and if I find a drunken artist, I will be able to say “I want a face drawn in X style”. Thanks, hh > **[Happy Retro Guy Pointing Over His Stock Vector (Royalty Free) 55843129 |...](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/happy-retro-guy-pointing-over-his-55843129?src=pp-photo-162102041-Xq5g9OU8WkjUuJYVVidv0w-4)** > > Find Happy Retro Guy Pointing Over His stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/2 "2014-10-19T08:22:03Z")
Perhaps there’s a name for it, but I suspect that you’ll just have to go with “50s era advertising line art”. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/3 "2014-10-19T11:37:01Z")
Bob Dobbs. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/4 "2014-10-19T12:01:52Z")
“50s Retro line art” maybe? An image search under that nets a lot of similar results. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/5 "2014-10-20T00:33:14Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Perhaps there’s a name for it, but I suspect that you’ll just have to go with “50s era advertising line art”. Yeah, pretty much. And when you’re talking art styles, there’s no sustitute for providing examples, like the OP did. If I was trying a strictly written destription, I might say, “mediocre, vaguely comic-booky, 1950s clip art style drawing executed with ink and brush, with a mixture of solid blacks and simple lines.” But a sample is the way to go. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/6 "2014-10-20T00:37:22Z")
People from Tom Tomorrow cartoons. By the way, my anti-virus software blocked the image site. I had to bypass it to see the image. You know what’s up? ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/7 "2014-10-20T01:55:33Z")
I don’t know if there’s an “official” name for it. If pressed, I’d just refer to it as retro pop art. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/8 "2014-10-20T09:35:48Z")
That particular artist is [Mitch O’Connell](http://www.mitchoconnell.com/). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-image-drawing-is-this/701780/9 "2014-10-20T12:02:45Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > Bob Dobbs. “Subgenius-style” was the first thing that came to mind. The second was “McCarthyist agitprop” but that’s just me.