Sheldon Mayer's Animal Gang #3

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Another Sheldon Mayer's session. This time a 6 page Dizzy Dog story from The Dodo and The Frog # 88.
I've chosen this one because I love the Charade scene. I honestly think anybody but Mayer could have drawn it better than him. He captures here the required facial expressions, the gesture's necessary, shifts the full shot to close-up in the accurate time and, when the choppy action stops (that one in what the unintelligible bird pretend to be asleep), Mayer frames that moment within a red and thick border, and you can really feel that peaceful instant. It's just perfect!
You can feel too that Mayer had been in the Fleischer Studios in 1934. But unlike other cartoonists who had worked in the animation industry, he evades graphic excess (far-fetched shots, frozzen expressions, etc) to make the right interpretation of the comic language.
Mayer had a gift for creating characters. This feature is constant in the course of his life and you could find a lot of supporting characters worthy of taking charge of their own stories. Look at this green bird carefully, and you'll find yourself trying to think of his name, his job and his origin. You'll never know, though! Just you can read over the story time and again. What's a total pleasure, in my ever-humble opinion.