Shaddup, Polly, you featherbrained... FEATHERBRAIN!
Shipwreck from G.I. Joe.
My favorite Joe growing up. Equal parts gruff and sarcastic. Also he has a parrot, who he can’t stop arguing with.
What’s not to like?
Yo Joe!
Archive for the ‘Cartoon November’ category
#41- Shipwreck
December 31, 2008#40-Aang
December 30, 2008
You want me to kill who!?
Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
One of the most important cartoons of the last ten years, doubtless. I only wish it was casting more influence on animation over on this side of the world.
Avatar is a show about ecology and harmony and the importance of making friends, primarily, but from another perspective it’s a show about kids beating the hell out of eachother.
Also, sometimes stuff like this happens.
I love Avatar
#39-Commander McBragg
December 29, 2008
This reminds me of a time in Borneo...
The Commander from The World of Commander McBragg.
Commander McBragg was another favorite character growing up. He’s an old british fellow who tells outlandish stories about the days when he was awesome and whomped savages thisly and thusly. Not to mention brushes with exotic creatures and sometimes downright monsters:
Really great fantastical stuff.
Quite.
#38-Sea Catch
December 28, 2008
Too many young bulls crowding up the beach nowadays anyhow.
Sea Catch from The White Seal.
A Chuck Jones cartoon based on the Rudyard Kipling short story. It’s a good little cartoon and holds up nice even today. It’s a story about seals and about growing up and… well there’s a sea cow!
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that.
Unlike the similarly executed yet superior Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, it does lag a bit towards the middle, but it’s a solid picture which can (for some reason) be viewed in its entirety right here:
#37-The Black Smurf
December 27, 2008
GNAP!
The Black Smurf from the Smurfs
Today’s sketch was drawn by my homie, Anthony Harris. Hey! It’s our first GUEST TOON!
You can learn more about black smurfs here:
#36-Chip
December 26, 2008
No case was too big... No case was too small. We were giants back then. Gods among chipmunks...
Chip from Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers.
This show was like crack to me as a child.
Hell, It’s like crack to me now.
#35-Jem
December 25, 2008
Truly truly truly outrageous
Jem from Jem and the Holograms.
Jem and the Holograms was cool. It wasn’t for me, but conceptually, it’s always been something I could appreciate.
Basically Jem was a young, somewhat unassuming girl, who’s alter-ego was a frontwoman in a rockband… and also a goddamned adventurer. There was some sort of love triangle between Jem, her mild-mannered secret identity, Jerrica and the only dude on the show. She disguised herself with some kind of super-computer and seemed to always get in trouble in the process of rocking out, but somehow managed to prevail with just the right amount of shoulder showing in the end.
Hannah Montana, for the uninitiated, is a really boring rip-off of Jem and the Holograms. I mean at least Jem has supervillians. Supervillians who are ALSO a rock band.
#34-The Lady Amalthea/The Unicorn
December 24, 2008
I can feel this body...DYING all around me!
The Unicorn/Lady Amalthea from the Last Unicorn.
Everybody knows that besides Berry Gordy’s ‘The Last Dragon’, The Last Unicorn is my favorite movie.
It’s just a fact!
It’s an animated movie based on a novel by a fella named Peter S. Beagle, who actually drafted the screenplay as well and produced by Rankin Bass. Yeah, the Christmas-time stop-motion special guys. It’s one of those rare times where people sort of unanimously agree that the movie is a better work than the book.
As for the movie itself: It’s kind of a story about the nature of people and the nature of a universe not necessarily made FOR people. There’s a lot of good, solid sorcery. None of that second rate ‘ninja-magic’ bullshit.
I’m looking at you Naruto.
There’s an interesting world full of sweet corners you want to go off and explore, a story that hangs together extremely tightly, some of the best and most memorable lines ever, and a giant bull made entirely of fire and a bad attitude.
Verdict: If you haven’t seen it, see it.
Plus, you know… sometimes, damnit, you just gotta prance.
#33-Casper
December 23, 2008
A g-g-g-g-g-g-GHOOOOOOOST!
Casper from Casper the friendly ghost.
Casper’s another one of those characters I’ve never been really fond of. I mean I can understand the appeal and I think it’s a sympathetic sort of thing. Everyone’s had that kind of paranoid thing of something being wrong with them, or felt friendless… at least I hope so.
Casper just never really did it for me. Incidentally, his movie from the nineties is pretty kick-ass, as far as tween-age targeted genre movies from the nineties go, anyhow.
#32-Pooh and Piglet
December 22, 2008
Silly old bear...
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.
I love these guys.
