THE MAN WHO ILLUSTRATED YOUR CHILDHOOD

@YourIllustratedChildhood on Instagram is the art and artifacts of a commercial artist whose illustrations were the backdrop to your childhood, if your grew up in the 80s and 90s. Definitely not Dr. Sesss, Eric Carle or Shel Silverstein, this is Gary Ciccarelli, The Man Who Illustrated Your Childhood (you just didn’t know it). He’s also my dad.

The master of the 80s montage strikes again with an illustration from the mid 80s for the Detroit original @strohs_beer. Red sports cars, always a staple in these montages apparently. This one, a little red @corvette. And boom boxes. It’s not a

Rhino original @marvel art from the '95 Fleer Ultra Limited Spiderman Color Chrome card set is up for auction @heritageauctions and @heritagecomics! Rhino (unconfirmed distant cousin of TMNT’s Rocksteady)has been in the comics since 1966, but w

Somebody stop him. The Mask 3-D board game from Parker Bros (aka @hasbro) launched alongside the 1994 film starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. And it was all based on a comic book from @darkhorsecomics. At that point the film was the second most su

Hobgoblin original Marvel production card art is up for auction @heritageauctions and @heritagecomics! Original art from the '95 Marvel Fleer Ultra Limited Spiderman Color Chrome trading card set of 10. Only three left from the series. Winning bid ge

Cover art for Flash magazine back in the 80s.⁠⁠
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Let's put a school of fish swimming in space. ⁠⁠
That would be cool. But what does it mean?⁠⁠
I don't think that matters.⁠⁠
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Covert Art Gary Ciccarelli⁠⁠
The Man Who Illustrated Your Childhood⁠⁠
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Space Jam: A New Legacy comes out this Friday on @HBOmax starring LeBron. So we thought we dig up a piece of art from the original. This was for a 1996 cross-promo w/ @McDonalds for the launch of Space Jam starring His Airness himself, Micheal Jordan

The auction of original Marvel production card art continues with the supervillain Shocker @heritageauctions! It's the original art from the '95 Marvel Fleer Ultra Limited Edition Color Chrome trading card set of 10. The winning bid gets the one-of-

Cree-e-eeepy Crawlers! Did you or did you not just sing the jingle when you read that? Creepy Crawlers. Fire hazard? Probably. Toxic if inhaled? Definitely. Fun? Oh yeah. It was the 90s, before we worried about those kinds of things.⁠⁠
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@ohihadthat

The Black Widow movie comes out Friday as @marvelstudios and @disney finally gave Natasha Romanoff her own film. But at least it didn’t take that long to get her own 8” action figure. This is the 1998 @black.widow @marvel Famous Covers 8-

Well we found it. In a bin of “artifacts.” It could very well be the only copy in existence. Not sure who else would have felt the need to hold on to this thing for almost forty years. Just have to dig out the old 13 inch TV/VCR combo and

Here's a deep cut from @cbstv and @fox video music. The Prime Cuts VHS tape featuring music videos from an all-star line up of 80s pop rock icons: @journeymusicofficial, The Romantics, Quiet Riot, Toto (and @stevelukatheroofficial), @bonnietyleroffic

Scorpion original Marvel production card art is up for auction starting today @heritageauctions! from 1995 Marvel Fleer Ultra Limited Edition Color Chrome trading card set of 10. The winning bid gets the one-of-a-kind original airbrushed and colored

Dr. Octopus original Marvel production card art is up for auction starting today @heritageauctions! Doc Ock, the leader of the Sinister Six and archenemy in the 1995 Marvel Fleer Ultra Limited Edition Color Chrome trading card set of 10. Open for bid

Got milk? Of course Ciccarelli did a @gotmilk ad, it was the 90s, how could he not. 90s fashion checklist: backwards snapback hat (shoulda pulled some hair through), shirt tied around waist, baggy pants (not quite #jncojeans status), white-T, jean ve

1996 is when laser tag went from black-light-laden rooms in mini malls right into the comfort of your own home, with Laser Challenge from Toymax. And it worked kind sorta almost sometimes as good as real thing. Cheat code: place one hand over the tra

More original Marvel production art is up for auction right now @heritageauctions! This time it’s Green Goblin, one of the classic Spiderman villains, and part of 1995 Marvel Fleer Ultra Limited Edition Color Chrome trading card set of 10, will

Original Marvel production art is up for auction starting tonight at midnight @heritageauctions! Spiderman, the centerpiece of 1995 Marvel Fleer Ultra Limited Edition Color Chrome trading card set of 10, will be open for bids over the next week. The

Straight out of Detroit Rock City, here's one of the many covers that Ciccarelli illustrated for the famed @creemmag back in 1977. This one features the fire-breathing @genesimmons along with @paulstanleylive, @acefrehleyoffical and Peter Criss of KI

*Creepy clown alert.*⁠ 1980s poster for the the only store that mattered back then, Toys R Us. Where you can be a Toys R Us kid. If you’re not afraid of a killer clown from outer space. ⁠
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Art by Gary Ciccarelli⁠
The Man Who Illustrated You