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Another Kat 6-18-38
By the way the poem: “The North Wind Doth Blow” (AKA “The Robin”) was written in the 16th century by Anonymous, and did he or she write a lot of poetry!
Bob Clampett Mystery
This is a jpeg image from “Porky’s Movie Mystery”. It is the last frame of a scene which is mysteriously cut-off. Porky as “Mr. Motto” is investigating the Phantom on a movie set and comes up behind a director sitting on a director’s chair. On the wall behind him is a sign reading “Warmer Bros. presents Four Daughters”. I wonder how this gag originally finished, and was it cut from the original negative? Maybe this will come out uncut on a Golden Collection someday, but until then, wha hoppen?
The Mystery of “Lane Allen’s Diary”
I saved a bunch of these pages from some obscure kid’s religious or inspirational mag. when I was a kid. I have always loved the drawing and the imaginative stories in these, the diary format puts you inside Lane’s head in many instances. Who is “M. Stevens”, who did the art? Does anybody know anything more about this comic? It’s kinda fun posting this kind of stuff, nobody’s stopped me yet! Wheeeee!
Kat 6-17-38
Hope you all had a great Easter and Passover, we had Matzos and ham! Of course you all know that Garge is referencing the poem: “The North Wind Doth Blow and We Shall Have Snow, and What Will Poor Robin Do Then, Poor Thing? He’ll Sit in the Barn, and Keep Himself Warm, and Tuck His Head Under His Wing, Poor Thing.” I don’t know offhand who wrote the poem, do you?
Kay Kay 6-16-38
To me, Garge is a god. I spent hours and hours as a child with the few examples of the strip I could get from the library, just copying Herriman’s LETTERING. I loved the way he made his “E”s. These late 30s Kats were my favorite drawings of Krazy and company. Years later when Cathy and I visited the Navajo Tribal Park in Monument Valley and saw the formations I was in Herriman Heaven. We also saw what remained of the old Wetherill Dude Ranch where Herriman and Jimmy Swinnerton used to stay. My favorite monument? “The Thumb”, what else?
Tyer’s Felix Comics!
This post was inspired by Chris’s question on the “Tyer Felix” post. Here is an index of Jim Tyer’s Felix the Cat comics. He didn’t work on as many as I thought, he was there at the beginning, and in 1963 in the Dell 12cents era. Here’s the list:
Four-Color #119, Tyer and Messmer shared stories on these first few comics.
Four-Color #135
Four-Color #162
Felix the Cat #1
Felix the Cat #3, Tyer’s first complete story: “Solo Fright”.
Felix the Cat #2 (1963 series) Cover, Story: “Beaux and Arrows”, “You Must’ve Been A Beautiful Baby” and “Wreck Rider”
Felix the Cat #3: Cover, Story: “Fair Weather E
nemies”,”You Auto Be In Pictures”
Felix the Cat #4: Cover, Story: “Chairman of the Bored”, “The Vicious Cycle”, “Tale of a Fish”, “A Sample Assignment”, “There Auto Be A Law” and Rock and Rollo in “A Moving Story”. Entire Issue!
Felix the Cat #5: Cover, Story: “Some-Her”, “Modern Times”
Felix the Cat #6: Cover, Story: “Clothes Make the Cat”
Felix the Cat #7: Cover, Story: “A Biscuit A Basket”
Felix the Cat #8: Cover, Story: “Looks Are Deceiving”, Rock and Rollo in “Too Much Energy”. After this, Tyer disappears from Felix comics forever! (Sob!)
Pictures today are the covers of the 1963 Felix Comics, the Cover of #119, two pages from Tyer’s first complete story “Solo Fright” (I love that panel of Felix saying “Golly”, with the letters falling down), and Tyer’s first Felix page: “Ancient Egypt”.
Cinder
I love this black cat from a 1920s children’s book. This little volume sold for big dollars on Ebay recently. I couldn’t get it, but saved a few illustrations from it. Hope you like them.
Tyer Felix!
The Joe Oriolo Felix the Cat TV cartoons from the early 60s are pretty difficult to sit through. Slow, stiltled dialog, lots of stock actions, and Felix himself sounds and acts a lot like Mickey. The Professor and Rock Bottom are the real stars of the series. Jack Mercer’s vocal diversity is impressive, he sounds so different as each one of the characters, I like the Professor’s voice best. It’s gravelly and sounds a bit sophisticated and stuffy. The episodes that Jim Tyer drew are the most fun to watch today. It’s a hoot to look at the crazy eyes he drew on the Prof. and Rock, and the stretch inbetweens he used to shoot the characters across the backgrounds. Tyer did a lot of special tricks, for instance when a character like the Prof. is falling through the air and hits earth, Tyer animates about 24 frames of a shadow getting larger on the ground, then Tyer exposes one frame of the Prof. squashed down in the contact position and pops if off BEFORE the rest of the falling action happens! You would think this would confuse the viewer, but it works very well, sort of a pre-image that underscores the rest of the action. Here’s a few frame grabs of Tyer’s silly drawings for Felix. He also drew many of the Dell, Toby and  Harvey Felix comics in the 40s-60s.
Funny Cat pictures
Here are two of my favorite cat pictures, t
hey are both very cartoony. One is of our outdoor tom cat: Little Gray, ignoring his “catch”, and chowing down on “Super Supper” (we always call it “stupid supper”). The other is a photo of either the bravest kitty who ever lived, or the most cowardly bear! The cat’s name is Jack and he is from New Jersey. Jersey cats must be the toughest! I can almost see a Barney Bear or Yogi gag here!
Did Tom and Jerry DVD commentary today
I went over to Burbank today to Sparkhill Prods. and recorded some commentary on the history of MGM cartoons for the Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 3. I can’t reveal what’s going to be on it, but there is some good stuff. They told me Eric Goldberg did some great commentary on the individual animator’s styles and histories. Coming soon to your DVD outlet (don’t buy it at Wal-Mart).
cartoon archive
I’m experimenting with archival pictures, here’s a couple from the cartoon history file.
KK 6-20-38
April 11, 2007
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Mark
IÂ love the design of the dog with the fedora and cane, he may have been a caricature of a late 30s celebrity. Note the subtle play on words going on here.
Always, Ofissa Pupp intrudes on Krazy’s conversations, understanding and completely misunderstanding them at the same time.