Friday, February 24, 2006

Who's That Guy? - "Hollywood Steps Out"

    Cartoons from the 30s and 40s often contain caricatures of celebrities of those times. While some of the caricatured stars are easily recognizable still today, other may look rather obscure.
    The series of posts that I start today will help you identify all the caricatured people from various cartoons.
    The first cartoon will be Tex Avery's "Hollywood Steps Out", so let's begin!

    Cary Grant


    Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan


    Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger



    Johnny Weissmuller



    James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft



    Greta Garbo and Harpo Marx



    Bing Crosby



    Leopold Stokowski



    James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour



    Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie



    The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard)



    Oliver Hardy



    The man is Cesar Romero. I don't know who the girl is.



    Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland



    Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney



    Sally Rand



    Kay Kyser



    Standing: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
    Sitting: Wallace Beery and C. Aubrey Smith



    Peter Lorre



    Henry Fonda



    John Edgar Hoover



    Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher and Buster Keaton



    Mischa Auer and Ned Sparks



    Jerry Colonna



    Groucho Marx and Clark Gable

    Yours truly,

    mmm...donuts (the other guy...)

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Good/Sad News!

    My dear friends,

    Even if I'm young, I've found a work yesterday. This, and my studies, will not allow me to post as I was used to.
    I cannot say for sure if I will find the time to make even one single post in a month.
    Anyway, I hope my friend mmm..donuts will help to keep this blog alive with his interesting posts.

    Thanks for your interest,

    Andrea

Friday, February 17, 2006

Jon K Blog Online!!!

    My hero John K opened a blog and, men, it's full of great drawings and informations!

    Don't miss it!

    http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

    You don't like it? You don't love John K's work? It's ok with me, who cares, but try to explain it to Mr. Ren Hoek.....




    Yours Truly,

    Duck Dodgers

    Blog Founder and Administrator

Thursday, February 16, 2006

" Club Life in the Stone Age" : UPDATE

    The great artist Milton Knight sent me an email with some informations about this cartoons. I already post about it:

    http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2006/01/rare-and-unknown-club-life-in-stone_24.html

    Here's what he said about this animated short. I hope it will send me other interesting emails like this one!

    Dear Duck,
    The bulk of this cartoon is a reworking of A STONE AGE ROMANCE (a sound
    Aesop's Fable made by Terry for Van Beuren release in 1929-30), all
    wrapped up with a "happy ending" bow borrowed from APE GIRL.
    The concept of the athletic, primitive woman goes back to Terry's silent
    days; Farmer Al Falfa courted one in BONEHEAD AGE from the late 20s.
    Of the 30s Terry product, I personally find the shorts from between 1930
    and '33 to be the most interesting. They tend to be unpredictable,
    lively, well-staged, and the very early ones make a great use of
    black-and-white contrasts. Later 30s entries tend to take the Disney-ish
    approach of sitting back and watching the character animation, but all
    too often it isn't worth watching!

    Mr. Knight is a gold mine! You gotta read the many informations he posted in this thread on a well-known animation forum. In his posts he reveals many details about the animation in " Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl" :

    http://www.animationshow.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2324


    Yours Truly,

    Duck Dodgers

    Blog founder and Administrator

Sunday, February 12, 2006

A Duck Dodgers Caricature

    My great friend Dragan Kovacevic was kind enough to make a caricature of yours truly.
    Also known as Kowalski on the pages of GAC forums, my friend is a briliant artist.

    Here you have the "original stuff"....




    ....and here you have me little self as seen by Dragan( click on the drawing for larger size and higher resolution).



    He drew me wearing a Duck Dodgers'suit (on it you will find a reference to my favorite website of them all : the GAC one, of which I'm honored to be a member) into a space ship, surrounded by nitrate prints of rare cartoons.
    You will notice the presence of certain "eager young space cadet"( and nemesis Marvin is not so far ...). Spumco aficionados will also recognize Jimmy the Lucky Idiot right behind me as well as Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy on the monitor screen.
    On the table you can see an unnamed book by my friend Jerry Beck as well as a copy of "Of Mice and Magic" plus the dvd of my superior copies of the "Censored Eleven". By the way, Porky got in his hands another dvd that I proudly own: " Altruists", a two-part episode of the " Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon" series ( one of the best ones, I would add ) that is still unaired in U.S. and in many other Countries.
    Also on the table, my favorite version of Tweety, the naked Clampettian one. The little rascal is doing something that absolutely shouldn't be done near nitrate films. And doing damages , there's a certain Gremlin, definitively not Wendell Willkie!

    Let me know which are your thoughts about this drawing. In my opinion, it is marvellous!!


    Yours Truly,

    Duck Dodgers

    Blog Founder and Administrator

Saturday, February 11, 2006

"Uncle Tom's Bungalow"

    Here you have some pictures from one of Avery's best WB works : "Uncle Tom's Bungalow". Enjoy !!





































































































    Yours Truly,

    Duck Dodgers

    Blog Founder and Administrator