Hi Guys! If you've been following Hybrid for a while, you probably know that I have a thing for Elsie the Cow !  She's an overlooked and underrated anthro advertising character who spent decades touting Borden Dairy products !  From the 1930s to the 1990s , she was the bovine face of milk in the United States! The golden age of Elsie advertising began with the 1939 New York World's Fair and ran through the early 1950s .  During that period, Elsie appeared in dozens of fully painted ads created by Walter Early .  In my opinion, these were some of the most completely worked out expressions of an anthro character outside of Disney and Warner Brothers .     In each of these ads, Elsie appears alongside her husband, Elmer the Bull , and their children, Beulah and (a little later) Beauregard .  There would be a picture together with a caption , usually in bright red letters .  The caption was generally a quote from Elsie, often provoca...

The next girl in my vintage series,Clara from 1900! The start of the new century was an exciting time-so many new inventions from the motor car,those new-fangled telephones, even the phonographs were soon going from the round cylinders that played to the first true records. As you can see,the "Gibson Girl" look was still in style,popularized by American artist Charles Dana Gibson. The same picture in sepia tone~ And the art in progress and a song from that time~

  The days slipped by and the castles mood became more festive than ever before, the day had come. Thurn was dressed in his best robes, a splendid sword at his side. His captain of the guards smirked as he had Draknor’s sword resting on his shoulder marveling at the size and heft of the blade, and the excellent craftsmanship. Ylla was in attendance with the rest of the serving girls, she had dreaded this day. She hated these days, the time of sacrifice where some poor soul wound be presented to their dark god as a sacrifice. It was always a terrible sight to see the sacrifice, their screams, the blood. Ylla did her best to not look to turn her attention to serving refreshments. The food was laid out, the court was in full attendance to receive the blessing of wealth and good fortune that would come from their sacrifice. A signal from king Thurn and one of his guards left. Ylla swallowed knowing what was to come next. Grint and several guards carried Draknor between them, days of ha...