Takin’ A Walk On Madison Avenue

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Phil Fountain

Advertising is in my blood. Medical science is baffled, but it really is in my blood. So, naturally when the distillers of Old Grand Dad Bourbon Whiskey asked if I would do the layout introducing their new product in a magazine ad, I readily accepted. Hopefully, they’ll like the concept. I wish I could get Darren Stevens to do the sales pitch, but alas, he’s been dead for several years now. Be that as it may, advertising forges ahead…

I think this campaign is a winner. Great product, great ad concept, how can you go wrong? I’ll be sending this off to the New York ad agency of Hoongadoonga, Hoongadoonga, Hoongadoonga & McCormick (they’re branching out… they have a chain of pizzerias in Des Moines as well). Look for it in your issue of AARP’s Still Kickin’ magazine… on newsstands everywhere.

Phil Fountain

Phil Fountain is a pseudonym for ANC’s prodigal cartoonist, Philbert Phountain, who has recently returned from a working hiatus where he served as the lead fact-checker for George Santos. He lives in Shasta County with his long-suffering wife, Christine, as well as a variety of layabouts and urchins who claim to be his progeny … including three grandchildren. He busies himself with his crayons and obsessing over the fate of his favorite baseball team while a small dog sleeps under his desk. He’s actually not such a bad guy as evidenced by the fact the dog rarely bites him anymore. Look for his crudely rendered drawings in future posts on A News Café.

Phil Fountain

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