Rainy Day Sunshine Fun-Time Low-Res Cartoon Show # 6

I couldn't find a host like I can when I play old records so I thought I could do the same with old cartoons as well. The rights are even more complicated here so I've gotten around it by only embedding things that have already been posted by someone else, absolving me altogether.

I take no responsibility for anything removed by the rightholders, watermarks from previous second-generation sources, editing, cropping, or other ways links that have been broken by parties other than me. Once in a while you'll come across offensive racial stereotypes. Remember the cartoon is about the story and not about them.

Superman: THE MAD SCIENTIST
Fleischer Studios, 1941
dir: Steve Muffati Yogi Bear: BE MY GUEST, PEST
Hanna-Barbera Studios, 1959 THE HOLE
Storyboard Films, 1962
dirs: John and Faith Hubley
Academy Award winner, best short subject Peabody's Improbable History: THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSBURY
Jay Ward Productions, 1962 JABBERWOCKY (Zhahlav Anrb Saticky Slameného Huberta)
Krátký Film Praha, 1968
dir: Jan Svankmejer Flip the Frog: NEW CAR
Celebrity Productions, 1931
dir: Ub Iwerks Droopy: THE SHOOTING OF DAN MCGOO
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1946
dir: Tex Avery ZIKKARON
National Film Board of Canada, 1971
dir: Laurent Coderre Popeye: WOLF IN SHEIK'S CLOTHING
Famous Studios, 1948
dir: Isadore Sparber
COLONEL HEEZA LIAR AT THE BAT
Paramount Pictographs/Bray Studios, 1915
dir: Vernon Stallings Tony Sarg's Almanac: THE ORIGINAL MOVIE
Herbert M. Dawley Productions, 1922
dir: Tony Sarg POLLY WANTS A DOCTOR
Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures, 1944
dir: Howard Swift Roger Ramjet: COMICS
Snyder-Koren Productions, 1965
dir: Fred Crippen THE MIRACLE OF FLIGHT
Terry Gilliam, 1974 Gandy Goose: WHO'S WHO IN THE JUNGLE
Terrytoons, 1945
dir: Eddie Donnelly

Yogi Bear

Back in the 1990's when I had free reign over the Hanna-Barbera characters (within reason) I wrote this Yogi Bear story for DC's Cartoon Network Presents

The story, drawn by Bill Alger, comes from the second issue in September 1997. Next week: The Jetsons

The Twiddle Method

Another story I wrote for DC Comics' Cartoon Network line when they didn't have as much original programming. Sometimes they'd showcase something like Powerpuff Girls or Cow and Chicken but mostly the older Hanna-Barbera characters.

I was always pitching stories with the lesser-known characters. They had all sorts of series of animals trying to be like people. One story I did was one of all the exasperated middle-age male masters getting together to share their problems.

This is from Cartoon Network Presents #3 in October 1997. I didn't write the cover.

It's a Bizarre Ol' World

In 1997, I did a lot of work writing for DC's Cartoon Network line. DC Comics was a part of Warner which had just merged with Turner Entertainment, which owned Cartoon Network. This was also at the time when Cartoon Network was only showing re-runs of older theatrical and Saturday Morning cartoons. They still do Cartoon Network tie-ins, but only with the original programming they run today.

When they started, Cartoon Network Presents featured the inventory of the Hanna-Barbera characters they owned and I was one of the writers. Others who worked on the comics were Michael Kupperman, Ivan Brunetti, Bill Alger, and Bill Wray. We were hired by Bronwyn Taggart, who with her husband I knew through New York comics circles, and one of the few editors I worked with who accepted my philosophy that comics scripts should be drawn out like strips themselves and not written in text form.

The script for this was originally done with the Bizarro World in mind, but many higher-ups at DC didn't want the story to interfere with the continuity that was established. While I feel it alienates potential readers to have all a publishers' comics tie into each other by having all their characters exist in a single universe, (DC is not the only guilty party) the only change was some names. I'm in the minority with my crackpot ideas of what comics and cartoons should be anyway.

World Encyclopedia of Cartoons T-Z

Here's the last of The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, the 1980 book I got these from. I'm sure I missed some (that are scannable), so I'll probably go back to it at some later date.

Hilda Terry's feature Teena


Arne Ungermann


Still from Duṥan Vukotić's Concerto for Sub-Machine Gun



Werner Wejp-Olsen (WOW)


Gluyas Williams


Adolphe Willette, 1903


Artist unknown, it was between the W and Y sections. Is it supposed to represent the letter X or is it just a nice drawing?


The Yarns of Captain Fibb, for Judge in 1909


Bill Yates, for Saturday Evening Post


There was a syndicated strip of Yogi Bear in the early '60s.


Pino Zacarria (“Zac”)'s Kirie and Leison.


Heinrich Zille for Simplicissimus