It's been a strange start to the year. Weeks have passed by without any cartoons being drawn to speak of. Don't know why, but I'm guessing it's something to do with allowing other, less interesting things take over my life. Housework, Paid Work, Eating and Making/building flat pack furniture. Some sleep was also involved, but that appears to be given as little consideration to the production of cartoons. I still watch the news, and think "that would make a great cartoon", but somehow I never manage to actually pick up my pens and draw.
I suppose I'm just incredibly unmotivated right now, and it's hard to get beyond that. On top of the usual pathetic excuses (for that's what they are) I've also been suffering from several bouts of life threatening 'man flu', which as all male readers of this blog will know is worst than the bubonic plague, and as most female readers will know as 'the sniffles'.
So today I've thought of another approach to this cartoon blogging lark. I'll just take a random cartoon worthy news story and draw the quickest, dirtiest sketch to illustrate my take on it.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Introducing....Beaky Buzzard
As can be shown here, "The Snerd Bird" was named Beaky right in 1942, in his first comicbook appearence (from FC 16, the first one devoted to Porky Pig and first time our porcine character starred in long adventures). In his second animated starring role, however, Beaky will still be called Killer.
Guess that they decided to use him again in cartoons because it was so much used in comics.
The story is hilarious just for the poses of Beaky and the fact that they used a giant version of Sniffles.
Your Truly,
Duck Dodgers
Guess that they decided to use him again in cartoons because it was so much used in comics.
The story is hilarious just for the poses of Beaky and the fact that they used a giant version of Sniffles.
Your Truly,
Duck Dodgers
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Scrap Happy Daffy
"Scrap Happy Daffy" has always been a favorite of mine since I was a child. Not only it shows all the cuts and cinematographic techniques Tashlin was so famous and celebrated for, but it also includes no less than two original songs created just for the short. A lot of fun is to try to understand the lines of the first song, when Daffy fastly and wildly enumerates all kind of objects that can be used for the scrap campaign.
For years I had to watch on TV a copy that started with the title card and ended with a "The End" card never used for any WB classic cartoon, omitting the iris out in the process. Guess the same happened to you, folks.
Enjoy this marvellous copy of the cartoon.
Be seein' ya,
Duck Dodgers
For years I had to watch on TV a copy that started with the title card and ended with a "The End" card never used for any WB classic cartoon, omitting the iris out in the process. Guess the same happened to you, folks.
Enjoy this marvellous copy of the cartoon.
Be seein' ya,
Duck Dodgers
