Inked Asses

Here, I added some sick colors like the execs love.

Mitch inked these Little Asses for fun and he did a swell job.


He also did these.




Here's how he did it:
http://mitchoo.blogspot.com/2008/09/ink-tricks-tutorial.html

What Do They Eat?

The colorful asses are full of superabundant love energy. Their tails gleam with magic and Ass Power(TM). But where does all this color and energy come from? From nature's generous bounty.My Little Asses eat an all natural organic diet of butterfly wings. The colors in the wings imbue the Ass-Tails with magical properties.
Sensitive Ass-nostrils seek out the tastiest wing-colors. Little hungry teeth nibble and gnaw - to the sheer delight of every girl who loves cartoon purples and pinks.
The young ones wait their turns and beg with their big hungry eyes for some delicious wing powder. The powder is sweeter than the purest honey. (They don't like the wing veins though.)
Love is everywhere.

Except on the ground where the de-winged and bewildered butterflies hop up and down, wondering why they can't cruise the saintly breezes of Ass-Canyon anymore.
The little crips end up begging at the exits of the doubled barreled rainbow that traverses the mystical land of Ass-Canyon.

This may seem sad, but remember that everything fits in nature's plan. Flowing ass-tails need butterfly wing dust and the magical tails in turn are clipped for the evil purposes of OWC.

My Little Ass Babies

Trying To Draw Small

One of my drawing problems that I wish I could solve is that I draw too big.
So this morning I tried to do tiny caricatures.
It's extra hard for me because I tend to get distracted by details and I magnify them.
I'm hoping that drawing small will force me to see the major shapes better. So far I'm sloppy.

The HB I Like

I don't like Tom and Jerry at all. I do like Hanna Barbera's TV cartoons from 1957 to about 1962. Really to about 1960. They are fun cartoons to eat breakfast with.They were on to a great thing for kids and then dumped everything good about it really fast.
The color and design in the early HB cartoons is pure candy.


I also like the simplicity. Simple, that is but with a method. Not simple without skill like today's simple. Modern TV is crawling with cartoons that look (and sound) like they are made by retarded 10 year olds. It seems like networks go out of their way to make cartoons amateurish and no fun. It's a complete mystery to me.This is proof that even on an extremely low budget you can at least make something fun to look at. And great voices don't cost that much either. HB certainly had those.

I loved the Jetsons as a kid because of its promise. It never quite lived up to its core elements though. HB was just too conservative to take advantage of what it had. I'll never understand it.
HB merchandise did take advantage of the style though. It was often more liberal with the designs than the studio itself.

I really liked when Dino was an African American.
I wish I could find more Dan Gordon storyboards for HB.
Someday someone will let me revive these characters. They are in my blood. I bet they would make a fortune.

Here's one of my favorite sites:

http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/

I like it not just because its about early HB cartoons that I think it's good. It tells you lots of interesting history and behind the scenes stuff, plus he tells you about the music and shows lots of funny frame grabs:It's just what you want from a cartoon blog. Very pure.




I wish there were sites like this for WB and Fleischer. Tex Avery too. If there are, let me know. Maybe I missed them.

Walt In The Tabloids

Here it is in this week's Globe magazine.
I'm sure it's all made up but it would explain a lot if true.