Superstars of Animation

My pairing of the two greatest cartoon stars of the Golden Age of Animation.

In honor of our Forefathers

The Big "G" by A.R.

OH MY GOD! Painter Alex Ross (one of my favorite artists) has done a painting of Godzilla for the new IDW comic series.

I don't know about you, but I live for this kind of stuff!

A Valentine's Date

Underdog and Sweet Polly Purebred off on a date that only our hero can give her.

Bugs Bunny by Chuck Jones and Me

Sometime ago I posted this sketch of Bugs Bunny that was drawn by Chuck Jones for his 1943 cartoon, "Super Rabbit". I got this image from the wonderful Chuck Reducks Blog run by Jones' family.


I love any opportunity to ink my art heroes and finding this pencil sketch of Bugs by Jones was like finding gold (especially this being so early in Bugs' career). Above are my inks over Jones' pencils after a little bit of clean up and tightening the lines.


Above here I xeroxed my inked piece and colored it using Berol-Prismacolor Markers. This was a sheer delight for for me. In my opinion Chuck Jones was the greatest animation director of all time and this opportunity to ink the masters pencils was a true honor.

I hope you all like it as much as I enjoyed working on it.

FLAME ON!

Great picture of The Human Torch I found on the web.

Happy Birthday Popeye!

His 82nd Anniversary!

Peanuts Every Sunday

Today is the Anniversary of the debut of the Peanuts Sunday Page. The Peanuts Gang first appear in color on January 6, 1952.
Please enjoy the reprinted strip above.

Early Charlie Brown

Above is a sketch I did of Charlie Brown as he looked in the first few years of Charles Schulz's Peanuts. I love these early looks, and it is also fun for me to look in the collections of early strips and see how the characters have evolved over the years.

Stan Lee receives a Star on Walk of Fame

This past Monday (January 4, 2011) Stan Lee received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This of course was for his huge body of work in the field of Comic Books and the characters that he created/co-created that have also become successful in television, cartoons and movies.
To this there is only one thing I can say:

EXCELSIOR!!!