Tuesday, January 05, 2010

More Nostalgia From The Fun Era

The Happy Yesterdays
Here's Pete Emslie and his sister Lynne enjoying the idyllic days of the 60s, not realizing what horrors were on their way to destroy western civilization.

The Lumpy NowsBack to the fun era...











All this stuff when I was a kid really made me want to be part of the whole fun world of kids' entertainment and toys when I grew up.
This was a great concept: "HEY KIDS! NOW YOU CAN BEAT UP ALL THE CHARACTERS THAT HAVE BROUGHT YOU SO MUCH JOY!"









BUT THEN!!!I grew up and was booted into a strange new world of backwards reasoning. This is what had happened to cartoons and I had to work on shows that I'd swear were meant to punish kids. This is what the hippies did to us. They should make hippie bop bags now so we can beat them up.

A few years later Ralph and I tried to turn things around and it worked for a while after.