BIG FRANKIE

Recently, I picked up a few 1960s issues of SUPERMAN from eBay. This is the back cover of issue #175 (Februaury 1965)...a very cool ad for the Aurora BIG FRANKIE plastic model kit! My brother, Stephen, had this model kit when we were kids and I remember it well! Seeing this ad brought back a lot of fun memories. Click on the ad for a larger view!

MARTIN AND LEWIS

Hope everyone is having a great Labor Day weekend! From my art file, here's DEAN and JERRY created with markers and cel-vinyl paint on coquille board. Be sure to watch and donate to the JERRY LEWIS MDA TELETHON this weekend! Click on the image for a larger view!

Life Insurance Urgently Required.

Life Insurance Cartoon.
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Well it's been a while since I last updated the blog. I imagine many thought the blog was dead, or at least forgotten. I was beginning to think the same. Other things became more important than drawing for a while. Hopefully that'll now change. Those things that got in the way (I think it's known as RL in some circles), have inspired many ideas for more cartoons. Should be an update at least once per week. I suggest those that'd like to keep track subscribe to the RSS feed on the left hand menu <<<

ELROY JETSON

From my HANNA-BARBERA file, here's ELROY JETSON! I created ELROY with colored pencils on black matte board. Click on the image for a larger view!

LOONEY TUNES - 1960s TITLE CARD

I love this 1960s LOONEY TUNES title card! Great cartoony hand-lettering!

MY NEW BLOG BANNER

Perhaps you've noticed the brand-new blog banner that is at the top of this page. This wonderful looking banner was designed by myself along with my pal, STEVE "KARSWELL" BANES. Thank you, Steve! Steve runs the terrific blog, THE HORRORS OF IT ALL. THOIA provides daily presentations of great pre-code horror comic book material! If you haven't already been doing so, you can visit THE HORRORS OF IT ALL by clicking HERE!

THE THREE STOOGES

The two-disc set of THE THREE STOOGES Volume 3 1940-1942 was released today! I have the first two volumes and I highly recommend these sets! I'm waiting for Volume 3 to arrive from Amazon. Great classic comedy with MOE, LARRY and CURLY!

I thought you'd enjoy seeing my THREE STOOGES dolls. These were produced by JOHN K and SPUMCO back in 1996. MOE, LARRY and CURLY are about 24" tall each. The best piece of THREE STOOGES merchandise produced to date! Also...below is the front of a sell sheet for the SPUMCO STOOGES dolls...DELUXE TV THRILL MEN! Click on each image for a larger view!

WEIRDLY & GOBBY

If you haven't already, be sure to pick up your GRUESOMES figures from Funko! Here's WEIRDLY and GOBBY GRUESOME. The box for the figures features great GRUESOMES character art, which includes CREEPELLA GRUESOME and GOBBY's pet spider, SCHNEIDER. Perhaps Funko will do companion figures of CREEPELLA and SCHNEIDER. I hope so!

HANNA-BARBERA 14" x 17" ORIGINAL ART - 1960s TV MEN!

Please forgive the slight glare on the piece, but it's hard to photograph the art without a flash. Here's FRED FLINTSTONE (THE FLINTSTONES), GEORGE JETSON (THE JETSONS), DICK DASTARDLY (WACKY RACES), MR. TWIDDLE (WALLY GATOR), MR. SLATE (THE FLINTSTONES), MR. SPACELY (THE JETSONS), OFFICER DIBBLE (TOP CAT), RANGER SMITH (YOGI BEAR), MR. PEEBLES (MAGILLA GORILLA) and BARNEY RUBBLE (THE FLINTSTONES). All done in brush, pen & ink with a red colored pencil on 14' x 17" textured canary yellow paper. Click on the photo for a larger view! You can e-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley

FRANKENSTEIN JR. 12" BANK - STANDARD COLOR VERSION AVAILABLE NOW!

I have the new Funko FRANKENSTEIN JR. 12" coin bank (standard color version) currently on eBay and ready to ship! Click on my eBay auctions link in my LINKS section to the right. This classic Hanna-Barbera character coin bank won't be available on-line or in stores until September. FRANKIE JR.'s arms articulate and his head is removable for easy coin retrieval. My FRANKENSTEIN JR. and THE IMPOSSIBLES character art is featured on the coin bank's box. I also have the Limited Edition silver version FRANKIE JR. coin bank available on eBay. Click on each photo for a larger view!

YAKKY AND CHOPPER

I received this terrific Hanna-Barbera collectible today from Mike Dammen of Hollandale, MN. I traded Mike a SNOOPER & BLABBER color sketch for this 1962 issue of YAKKY DOODLE and CHOPPER from Gold Key! Be sure to check Mike's cartoon comic book eBay auctions under his seller ID of "old-cartoon-comics". Mike specializes in GOLD KEY and DELL comics...especially Hanna-Barbera titles. Thank you, Mike! This issue also contains a 5-page SNAGGLEPUSS story. Click on the image for a larger view!

MO'C IN JAPAN

MITCH O'CONNELL sent this gallery show announcement over today. If you're in Tokyo, be sure to go see MITCH (and his art!) at THE GHETTO on September 4th ! Click on the announcement for a larger view!

BUSY WITH PROJECTS

I'm busy working on a few projects at the moment, so I thought you'd enjoy seeing this. From my Hanna-Barbera file, it's a 1960s PIXIE and DIXIE Kellogg's Fun Card! Click on the image for a larger view.

FRANKENSTEIN JR. 12" COIN BANK - SILVER VERSION FROM FUNKO

Just got in a few of these today. It's the silver version of the new FRANKENSTEIN JR. 12" coin bank from Funko! The silver version was produced as a 2008 San Diego Comic Con Limited Edition. There were only 240 of the silver versions produced. As I mentioned in a previous post about the FRANKENSTEIN JR. coin bank, my character art of FRANKIE JR. and THE IMPOSSIBLES are featured on the coin bank's box. Thanks to Brian Mariotti at Funko for the coin banks! I do have one of these silver version FRANKIE JR. coin banks currently listed on eBay. Click on my eBay auctions link in my LINKS section to the right. I should have some of the regular color version FRANKIE JR. coin banks soon. Click on the photos for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! - Patrick Owsley

BUGS BUNNY CARTOON PAINTING

Here's something from my LOONEY TUNES file. A few years ago, I scanned this BUGS BUNNY painting from the back cover of a magazine. I can't remember what magazine it was, and I don't know who the artist is. I do know that it is very cool and I thought you'd like to see it. Click on the image for a larger view!

TASMANIAN DEVIL

From my LOONEY TUNES collection/file..it's the TASMANIAN DEVIL! Here's the 1962 Gold Key comic book cover...a licensing drawing based on the character's original design...and a color licensing piece that I inked for Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Click on each image for a larger view!

WILMA & BETTY

Here's another piece from my HANNA-BARBERA file. It's WILMA FLINTSTONE and BETTY RUBBLE! Based on the character designs of Craig Kellman (and Ed Benedict!), I created WILMA and BETTY with colored pencils on black matte board. Click on the image for a larger view!

MAGILLA GORILLA - 1964 PUZZLE ORIGINAL ART

Here's the original painted cartoon art for a 1964 MAGILLA GORILLA puzzle from Whitman. Click on the photo for a larger view!

Rigtheous Kill/ SA Studios

We hosted a tribute last night to Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino over at the Pop Up space next to our retail store "The Last Laugh"on the Corner of 6th and Los Angeles. Thanks to everyone who put time energy into making the event happen especially those who came out to support. -SA Studios

ADAM WEST ON DWTS?

This morning on Fox 11's GOOD DAY L.A. (a local morning TV News and Entertainment show here in Los Angeles), Entertainment reporter DOROTHY LUCEY reported that TV's BATMAN, ADAM WEST, may be a contestant on the upcoming season of DANCING WITH THE STARS. I wonder if WEST, who is now 80, will be dancing the Batusi?

BUSY WITH ARCHIE

I've been busy lettering a 22-page story for an upcoming issue of ARCHIE & FRIENDS. Thanks to ARCHIE Editor Stephen Oswald for the lettering assignment! Click on the photo for a larger view!

JELLYSTONE PARK ART

Here's a YOGI BEAR and BOO BOO piece that I did recently for YOGI BEAR's JELLYSTONE PARK CAMP-RESORTS. Thanks to Michele Maxwell for the assignment! Click on the image for a larger view. You can e-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley

JUDY JETSON

I was going through my Hanna-Barbera file and found this JUDY JETSON piece that I did a few years ago. It's colored pencils on black matte board.
Also...I wanted to post this 1963 JUDY and ELROY JETSON coloring book. Click on each image for a larger view!

TENNESSEE TUXEDO ORIGINAL PAINTED ART

Here's the original painted cartoon art for a 1960s TENNESSEE TUXEDO puzzle (top photo) and a 1970s TENNESSEE TUXEDO coloring book (bottom photo). Click on each image for a larger view!

WILDSVILLE - THE ART OF DEREK YANIGER

Looking forward to the Oct. 1 release of this hardcover book!

MILTON THE MONSTER - 1960s ORIGINAL ART

Here's the original painted art for a MILTON THE MONSTER coloring book cover (top photo) and puzzle (bottom photo)...both from Western Printing. Also shown in this beautiful cartoon painted art, are PROFESSOR WEIRDO and COUNT KOOK! Hal Seegar's THE MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW entertained Saturday morning audiences during the 1965-1966 TV season on ABC-TV. Click on each image for a larger view!

HUCKLEBERRY HOUND SAYS...

..."Y'all be sure to take a look at Patrick's eBay auctions, ya' hear?"

Just click on my eBay AUCTIONS link in my LINKS section on the right. Thanks!

PIXIE & DIXIE PUZZLE ART

Here's the original painted art for an early 1960s PIXIE & DIXIE puzzle from Western Printing. Click on the image for a larger view!

HECKLE AND JECKLE

I love how HECKLE AND JECKLE were illustrated on this February 1963 Gold Key comic cover. It looks like a cartoon painting, using only flat colors. A very cool effect! Click on the image for a larger view!

WOODY WOODPECKER CARTOON PAINTINGS

Here are terrific examples of great cartoon painting! This is the front and back cover to WOODY WOODPECKER's COUNTY FAIR #5 from 1956. GREAT stuff!

The Impossible Barney Bear series

I have mixed feelings about the Dick Lundy Barney Bear cartoons. The shorts are always hybrids, sort of a trait d'union between the Tom and Jerry shorts and the Avery's entries. So, as a whole, the series failed to have its own characteristics.
Barney himself was basically too much passive and didn't achieve to reach even that little of personality Andy Panda or Porky Pig had in their solos shorts, resulting friendly characters on whom solid entries can be tailored. Even if he often acts and reacts in the cartoons, all his actions results in fact out of character.
Despite all this, however, the shorts are enjoable, with some entries being very good.
"Wee Willie Wildcat", for example, came so far to steal two major gags from "Senor Droopy" and "Wags to Riches" (giving Barney, in this last case, a hat, only for the execution of the gag: no comment!) but this does not prevent it from being one of the best in the series, up there with "The Impossible Possum" and "Half Pint Palomino".
I'm gonna show you "The Impossible Possum" today. The highlight is a great sequence in which Barney, using a female possum hand puppet, tries to seduce the title character. The way Barney reacts, at the end, and his closing line to the audience, explain at better his typical passive behaviour.

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