since Bob Haro is going to be at Rockford this year, I thought it would be cool if everyone posted some of his art from BITD. lets see the old Grab-on kid, and the BMXA drawings here.

Good art , Tuff forks. I have one set of Bottema's with the with the same cartoon drawn welding , no short inside line one the inside gusset , they also look a lot less cartoony in real life.



Matt has all my BMX mag collection atm , so no new scans of old stuff for a while..

JB

I have some old motives ads in BMXA mags, I'll scan some.

Third issue of BMXA. As far as I can tell, it's the first published drawings in the magazine.





COOL STUFF!!!

Original in Pencil Webco team from the BMXA test. Got this from Gork:
http://www.oldbmxdc.com/haro1.jpg
3 Fancy Scans of originals also received from Gork a while back:
http://www.oldbmxdc.com/haro2.jpg

Haro's drawings were absolutely, undeniably COOL.

I'm serious when I say this: Haro drawings made newbies (like me in '79) want to race.

DaveC, those are incredible!!!! Color me jealous!

-Rob

oh man..
is it just because this is our era that Haro renderings get cool-juices flow'n?

Every time I see cartoon art in an ad or what not, in my mind it is always judged in relation to a Haro rendering...

...and the best the other work will ever be is 2nd best.

Is it just me?...I'm sure not...

I like various use of line width in all of his drawings. Also, how he could make wheels look like they were spinning...

My best bud in Jr. High and H.S. had a drawing style like Haro's. I was soooo envious and still am......I can't even draw a staright line!!!
In 84 or 85 He won the draw Foobar contest in BMX Plus or Super BMX, got a Mongoose Pro Class and some other goodies.

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Two of my favorites

[img]http://alltheracing.com/ekposter[/img]

[img]http://alltheracing.com/stu[/img]

I wore the Haro designed Max long sleeve shirt
to my first day of 7th grade back in 82'.
I thought I was so cool! LOL!

This is a good spot to say how cool it was of him (and Piant) to graciously pose for this gushing pimply-faced geek...(me).

That's a cool pic Cool-Tool!

Here's another catolog pic:

here's some cartoons out of BMXA magazine

One of my all-time faves, diggin the detail, especially the wristwatch:

Here's what I have hanging in my basement.... [img][IMG]http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/bartaylorad/DCP_0034_1.jpg[/img][/IMG]

Aww, dang...here we go again.... http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/ba.../DCP_0034_1.jpg

And this...

I loved his art work. Anyone remember the "Grap-On Kid " ?

cool drawings so far, but theres a lot more out there. lets keep em coming in. more, more, more.

Quick, who can tell me where Grab-On grips were made. Without looking at an old Ad.

The winner gets a cookie.

Walla Walla, Washington
..more useless information wallow'g around in my head.

..gee I think I've got it..What kinda cookie?

Fergie is correct.

Yep, Walla Walla, I lived there for 14 years. Great place to live.

Grab-On: a company that had it going on, then became just a provider of Nautilus foam grips and Bic pen foam pen holders.

Oatmeal raisin coming your way.

Bump

I found this whilst scanning an old Action Now mag Jan 81 issue....




Signed 1980 , kinda sums up "the look" at the time ,
& just probably just before Bob started his own label...

JB

I was beyond B-day cakes at 15 but my Mom took this Haro image from my magazine to the cake decorator and totally surprised me...it was tough to cut into a great piece of art.



Can't believe it is 26 years later...man how time flies by!

cool stuff. such a distinctive look. is that all?

what about old motives ads?
I'll dig for some.

Those drawings Gork has framed would be sweet to get copies made!!! I would buy a set. Good Vintage fundraiser material possibly, with Bob's blessing that is.

I'm really pushing it here , I scanned this 1 x 2 inch photo @ 600 dpi from the Action Now magazine's 1981 Summer guide to coolness....

Haro T shirts....




There's a few more Action Now photo's in the Vintage Freestyle section....if you haven't seen them.


JB

I had all of them!