Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
PATRICK OWSLEY website
Be sure to take a look at my website for more samples of my work. There's a lot of art that I haven't posted here on the blog. You'll see more inking samples, along with my lettering samples. Some lettering samples are from SPUMCO COMIC BOOK. Click here -- http://patrickowsley.com/. The above image is from my website's homepage. The original art is currently for sale on Ebay, along with a few more pieces of my original art. To see the art, click here -- http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpowsleyQQhtZ-1. Thanks! - Patrick OwsleyDICK DASTARDLY detail
It's been a week since my last blog posting...too long! I've been busy with a couple of new projects. One of them is illustrating a DASTARDLY & MUTTLEY video game cover. Blast! Entertainment in the U.K. is producing the game. I'm posting the detail of DICK DASTARDLY from the game cover's pencil rough. I don't want to show the entire cover just yet...I'll post the finished color cover art later. Thanks to Joanne Wenn at Blast! and David Cohen at Warner Bros. for a fun project! My e-mail address is powsley@flash.net . Thanks! - Patrick OwsleyAllergic to fruit and veg!
Apparently, if an 8 year child demands nothing but greasy junk food, then that's what you should give them. Every 20 minutes, if that's what they demand. If they refuse to eat vegetables and fruit, then you give them a sausage sandwich instead, or perhaps a curry, a Big Mac and some crisps.Read the sad & strange story that has got the whole nation talking, here.
Did You Miss Me?: Mother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard
Many prints of this wild Screen Gems effort miss the following sequence. Enjoy!!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Britney Spears checks out in 1 day.
First she cut of her hair. Then she checked into rehab, for 1 day. She's going to have to be a lot more committed, before she's seriously committed. If you know what I mean.Mind numbingly boring Celeb story here.
Friday, February 23, 2007
A Terrible Cartoon.
Why does Microsoft make their software so difficult to use. I've been trying all day to send an email with a picture, and it's got there ok, but when they try to print it out - nothing! Just a blank box where the picture should be. Looks fine on the screen, but just doesn't want to print the picture. Anyway - it's no excuse for this truly terrible cartoon, but you can see what sort of day I'm having.Thursday, February 22, 2007
Blair announces Iraq troops cut
Finally, Tony Blair announces that some troops will withdraw from Iraq. Apparently Operation Sinbad has been successful.Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Doctors MOT checks.
Being topical for a change. Reports today that doctors will have to face "MOT" style checks every 5 years.This is designed to keep tabs on doctors practices and to avoid any future Harold Shipmen cases.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
CARTOON ART FOR SALE!
I listed a few pieces of cartoon art earlier this week on Ebay, including the above piece of MR. PIPER & PALS. Click here to see what I am offering --http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpowsleyQQhtZ-1. Original art of POPEYE, THE THREE STOOGES, HECKLE & JECKLE, HOPPITY HOOPER and more is for sale. You can e-mail any questions or comments to me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! - Patrick OwsleyMother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard (1947)
Here are the screenshots from "Mother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard", a Columbia/Screen Gems cartoon released on 5/29/1947.
Columbia had perhaps the most turbulent history amongst all the cartoon distributors and studios of the classic era, with numerous changes of management and some dramatic shifts in style and quality. With majority of its '30s and '40s output virtually unseen for decades, it remains one of the more obscure and unknown studios. If you're interested in a detailed chronicle and history of Columbia cartoons, take a look at the excellent The Columbia Crow's Nest web site.
The most lauded, and sadly very brief-lived period in Columbia/Screen Gems history has been 1941-42, with great Frank Tashlin working as a producer, storyman and director. Some excellent and innovative cartoons have been made during that time. However, by the mid-'40s, Columbia/Screen Gems was languishing, with The Fox and The Crow series being the only one rising highly above the mediocrity of studio's production. One last serious attempt to revitalize the studio came in 1946. with the arrival of Warner/Schlesinger associates Ray Katz and Henry Binder as the studio managers. They lured some well known people from Warner Bros, among them writers Cal Howard and Dave Monahan, and... a cetain fellow named Bob Clampett! With Clampett as studio's creative director, there were great chances for a real revolution, similar to what Tashlin did five years before. It didn't happen though, and studio closed the doors by the end of 1946. The final result were some solid Warner-influenced cartoons that received the theatrical distribution in the following two years, after studio's demise.
Very little is known about Clampett's involvement, and by all accounts, he worked mostly as a storyman (two cartoons usually credited to him are "Boston Beanie" and "Up'n'Atom"). "Mother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard" clearly shows some of the Clampett influence, and it might have been at least partially written by him. This fast-paced cartoon filled with crazy and absurd gags seems at the moment like some strange hybrid of Avery's "Who Killed Who", and Clampett's own "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". And while it's not as good as those two towering masterpieces, "Mother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard" is neverthenless one of the better and most enjoyable Columbia cartoons of the '40s.
Director of this cartoon is Bob Wickersham, a veteran of Disney, Iwerks and Fleischer studios. Wickersham directed more than 30 cartoons at Columbia, among them the majority of Fox and Crow titles. Does anybody knows any biographical details about this very good and talented director?
Columbia had perhaps the most turbulent history amongst all the cartoon distributors and studios of the classic era, with numerous changes of management and some dramatic shifts in style and quality. With majority of its '30s and '40s output virtually unseen for decades, it remains one of the more obscure and unknown studios. If you're interested in a detailed chronicle and history of Columbia cartoons, take a look at the excellent The Columbia Crow's Nest web site.
The most lauded, and sadly very brief-lived period in Columbia/Screen Gems history has been 1941-42, with great Frank Tashlin working as a producer, storyman and director. Some excellent and innovative cartoons have been made during that time. However, by the mid-'40s, Columbia/Screen Gems was languishing, with The Fox and The Crow series being the only one rising highly above the mediocrity of studio's production. One last serious attempt to revitalize the studio came in 1946. with the arrival of Warner/Schlesinger associates Ray Katz and Henry Binder as the studio managers. They lured some well known people from Warner Bros, among them writers Cal Howard and Dave Monahan, and... a cetain fellow named Bob Clampett! With Clampett as studio's creative director, there were great chances for a real revolution, similar to what Tashlin did five years before. It didn't happen though, and studio closed the doors by the end of 1946. The final result were some solid Warner-influenced cartoons that received the theatrical distribution in the following two years, after studio's demise.
Very little is known about Clampett's involvement, and by all accounts, he worked mostly as a storyman (two cartoons usually credited to him are "Boston Beanie" and "Up'n'Atom"). "Mother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard" clearly shows some of the Clampett influence, and it might have been at least partially written by him. This fast-paced cartoon filled with crazy and absurd gags seems at the moment like some strange hybrid of Avery's "Who Killed Who", and Clampett's own "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". And while it's not as good as those two towering masterpieces, "Mother Hubba-Hubba Hubbard" is neverthenless one of the better and most enjoyable Columbia cartoons of the '40s.
Director of this cartoon is Bob Wickersham, a veteran of Disney, Iwerks and Fleischer studios. Wickersham directed more than 30 cartoons at Columbia, among them the majority of Fox and Crow titles. Does anybody knows any biographical details about this very good and talented director?
