Wouldn't it be cool if they ever animated a Batman show in Bob Kane's style? (Like at the beginning of the 60s Batman live action show)
Hey, imagine if superheroes weren't already established and you had to pitch this idea to a Cartoon Executive...
"Well it's a show about a man who has man powers, but he wears a dark pointy suit and he fights crime without a gun. He's so dark that he laughs at burning children."
"Not only that, he's lonely so he steals someone's underage boy and makes him wear leotards and hot pants covered in fish scales, then puts him in dangerous situations!"
"It's not all serious though. The heroes like to have a good laugh at other men in funny suits being electrocuted."
"Al Franken will sometimes appear in the cartoon, only really large."
"Once in a while they'll take off their underpants and exchange them for Catholic girl skirts."
"And when they mutate into 10 foot monsters with monkey heads, their bitches won't notice anything is different.""Buy this show"
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Shouldn't this be on the pitch blog?
Hilarious.
the new Brave and Bold Batman series has been doing the Dick Sprang style:
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3800000/Batman-The-Brave-and-the-Bold-batman-3822947-1280-1024.jpg
which is a just a step away from the Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson styles. Bob Kane claimed credit for their styles and many other artist work he swiped from:
http://henryvallely.blogspot.com/search/label/Batman
"Legends of the Dark Knight" (available on DVD in the "Batman - The Animated Series, Volume Four (From the New Batman Adventures)" animates the style of Dick Sprang, Bill Finger, and Frank Miller.
I believe it is also available on the Batman Gotham Knight 2-DVD edition.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519697/
Also... Bob Kane was a great businessman, avoiding the mistakes which Siegel and Schuster made. Thus, his personality tends to overshadow Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson. (Most of the covers you display were done by others.)
They have a show that's already like this, but it's written by people who aren't very funny, and it kinda sucks. It's called "Batman: Brave and The Bold"
Only $10 Grand to rub out BatMan... they've got to do better than that.
Perfect post!
And the CEOs would say something like:
- Bat is a weird animal. You should use a dog. Dogman, or Hamsterman. Kids love hamsters.
- And about his family? We need shows with families. Hamsterman should have at least a aunt and a grandmother, since their parents died.
- What does he learn in the end of each episode?
- No... This show will NEVER work.
- Do you know our network? Do you know what kind of audience we do have? You should do a research about it before pitch something like that.
"the new Brave and Bold Batman series has been doing the Dick Sprang style:"
I just googled it and I don't see much resemblance. It just looks like the same stuff they've been doing for the last 20 years.
Oh man, if i pitch this one day, you better be there to witness it John! :D
It is surprising that you (John) do not make a yearly excursion to tv land to see the new shows, even if only an episode of each. You know, a homegrown version of the compilations the networks did of their new cartoon seasons for the fall, but with the underlying business reason of scoping your own industry. It would make your cable bill a deductible work expense on your taxes...
It already is deductible
What about when Batman and Robin would cameo on those hour-long Scooby Doo shows? That was the same as the opening of the live action show.
Man your pitch sounded kooky. And I always thought they styled TV comics after Jack Kirby, thanks for informing me. And I actually like the Batman Brave and the Bold, it's funny in this weird sorta corny way.
Robin, the boy with the metal crotch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yourWc_2Hj4&feature=related
the old bruce timm batman animated series had an episode that was animated specifically in a Sprang-esque style. Forget the name of the episode though.
To add to Hemlock's statement Bob Kane really didn't create Batman, Bill Finger did.
It's probably incorrect to say Batman Brave and the Bold copies the style exactly, but it's clear where it's taking cues from. Looks like they streamlined the style into beefier more managable shapes.
And John, I'd track down the episode with Batmite, theres actually a big sequence based of Clampett's "Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
Also Batman punches out my favorite Green Lantern so points for that.
Also Sheldon Moldoff did alot of stuff signed "Bob Kane." Bill Finger was a writer, not an artist from what I remember. Yes the new Brave and Bold shows Batman out during daylight, smiling, laughing and signing autographs, whereas the previous series had him hiding from cameras like mythical Bigfoot or Mothman.
oh and that Batman/Bruce Wayne cover-- is that Kirby? Looks like a Kirby cover, right?
Where do I go to fund this show????
Peter:
Yes Bill was a writer but his ideas very much shaped the creation of Batman and the most famous villians.
A lot of guys here are letting you in on that new Batman cartoon with the 'Dick Sprang' feel, but it's clear the style itself was heavily modified to favor consistent models.
Torsten had already mentioned Legends of the Dark Knight, from Bruce Timm's series, which is far more worth looking into:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZVuMsRx3c
Even this version falls into the on model issue, but it had more freedom, since it was just a one-time gig.
At the end of the day, though, this is still my all-time favorite batman animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi5qoxxQpMY
though i think this kind of style for batman would be great for a parady, my favorite stlye wud b frank miller's since its the most darkest, and a bat is supossed to be scary, no? lol
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