In the 1970s I thought it was weird how TV cartoons portrayed non-white races. They basically just took their stock white characters and colored them slightly darker so as not to offend anyb...
2024-06-15 14:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostI basically lifted this cow design from a french cheese company.
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In the pilot of Brik Blastoff of the Outback it is revealed that Brik's Rocket Rangers have been posted on Ganymede for their whole lives. They have never encountered women before. When Brik is ass...
2024-06-03 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I think Nit was originally just an odd doodle I drew with screwy eyes. I thought if I made her into a ...
2024-06-02 16:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostIn our story bibles we usually start off by giving a brief personality description of our main characters.
2024-05-22 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Around 1980 I created some characters for a science fiction cartoon I wanted to make.
The main characte...
In the mid 1960s cartoon studios stopped coloring eyes white. Instead they just painted the whole face including the eyes in caucasian 'flesh color'. this continued through the 70s and 80s and it w...
2024-05-15 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI think the villain Beamatron was actually from HB's The Impossibles cartoon, but I thought he would work well in this Atom Ant story. He had a really cool voice that we used to imitate when we wer...
2024-05-13 21:56:33 +0000 UTC View PostA few years ago Adult Swim asked me to develop a Hanna Barbera anthology series that featured many of their early characters. Here is a story Richard Pursel and I wrote featuring Atom Ant and his s...
2024-05-02 15:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a couple cels from my first professional cartoon. It was animated by Lynne Naylor and me. Jim Gomez assisted the animation and Bill Wray painted the surreal backrounds.
We did it aroun...
2024-04-24 19:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis concept was developed in the early 80s and added to the 1985 Cartoon Cavalcade story bible.
I was fascinated by our primitive relatives the prosimians (pre-monkeys) and especially the Ta...
2024-04-24 18:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It is customary in Storybibles to include short premises of the types of stories the characters are in. Here are some from the Cartoon Cavalcade bible.
2024-04-20 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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I had pitched Ren and Stimpy as its own show to the Saturday Morning cartoon shows in the early 80s and the executives all thought I was crazy. It was just too weird for them.
So in th...
2024-04-19 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSorry I haven't posted in awhile. I got locked out of the site for about a week for some reason and just now was able to open it again.
Here are some more recent drawings of Billy Bunting's g...
2024-04-18 16:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another article I thought I already posted. It's the format of Cartoon Cavalcade.
2024-04-18 16:46:26 +0000 UTC
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A little later in the year that I created Ren and Stimpy (1979) I also created a little bird character called Billy Bunting of the Apes and his human girlfriend Geena (sometimes spelled 'Jeena'.) 2024-04-09 18:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought I had already posted this but it seems to be missing so I'm uploading it again.
2024-03-28 18:33:18 +0000 UTC
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In the 1986 story bible Ren and Stimpy were just part of a show that featured 3 main character groups. Ren and Stimpy were part of 'Your Gang'. There were 2 other series: Billy Bunting of the Apes ...
2024-03-26 19:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostShortly after I created Ren and Stimpy - also in 1979 I came up with some kid characters who interact with them.
2024-03-20 20:48:29 +0000 UTC
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Here are some girls I've been working on. I seem to have some trouble drawing funny looking women because my natural instinct is to draw them cute.
2024-03-08 17:19:45 +0000 UTC
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I found these layouts from Firedogs 2 where the fire chief becomes Ralph Bakshi. It starts with the chief having a funny feeling inside.
2024-02-21 19:53:03 +0000 UTC
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I always thought the Jetsons Show had great raw elements; great character designs and voices, a funny concept and beautiful backgrounds. I think they could have pushed it further though especially ...
2024-02-13 17:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostI've been doing some marker art for a show coming up starting on February 23rd. Here's some of it in progress.
2024-02-05 22:55:55 +0000 UTC
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