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Jim Tyer Animation Clips Galore

Heckle and Jeckle cartoon hot dog cart Jim Tyer

Thanks to Thad from http://thad-k.blogspot.com/ for putting together this great compilation reel of the goofy and deranged animation of classic animator Jim Tyer.

Cartoon mouse stuck in a windshield Jim Tyer cartoon cat grabs mouse with metal tongs

These hard-to-find clips are a great slap in the face wakeup call because it's not the same old stuff we've seen for years.

dopey cartoon dog with bear in foreground cartoon wolf gets a whooping in the pants from Mighty Mouse

The production is not as slick as Disney and Warner Bros. cartoon shorts, but the drawings are funny and they move funny, too.
cartoon lion climbing on top of bald guy's head Jim Tyer cartoon joust announcer

Make sure to read this great article by Mark Mayerson about the brilliantly FUNNY animation of Jim Tyer:
http://mayersononanimation.blogspot.com/2008/01/jim-tyer.html

The BIG Ralph Bakshi Book is Here!

Last week I got a chance to look through a pre-release copy of the new Ralph Bakshi retrospective art book, Unfiltered.

It was so gorgeous I wanted to run off with it, but I'm sure Steve Worth would not have appreciated that. Anyway, I just found out it's now available, so I ordered one for my very own.

The book is packed with pre-production art from all of the classic Bakshi features, including my favorites, Heavy Traffic, Coonskin and Wizards. It even has some storyboard drawings

from Fire and Ice that look a million times better than the final product. There's also LOTS of personal art from Ralph, and dozens of personal photos that really give you a feel for the man behind the movies.

Here's a video preview of Unfiltered - The Complete Ralph Bakshi I found on YouTube:

With any luck, this book will create some demand so we can finally get Coonskin and Hey Good Lookin' on DVD!

Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi (The Force Behind Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse, Cool World, and The Lord of the Rings)

Patsy Pancake from Milt Gross Funnies

As long as we're on a Milt Gross roll, I thought I'd point out that my pal Chris Duffy has scanned his well-worn copy of Milt Gross Funnies #2! This story features Patsy Pancake and Chives the Penguin, and you can read the whole thing over at Chris' Comic Books Are Interesting blog!

Patsy-Pancake-Lobster-Pinch A few years ago (in the pre-blogging days), Chris made a ~~xerox~~ photocopy of this story and mailed to me (yes, in the actual US Mail) just so I would have the pleasure of reading it. I just think it's so cool that we can now share with untold thousands of comics fans with less effort than it used took to take to mail it to one!