For those who might not know, I’ve been given the honor of filling the position that the late David Sutherland, O.B.E. has left behind. I can never replace…
Ok, he’s not a paratrooper, but in “Forward March Hare” (1953), Bugs does mistakingly get drafted into the army. I did a post earlier about the Chuck Jones…
I really enjoyed the design of the antagonist in “Hare Less Wolf” (1958), and you can see hints of Freleng’s future “Pink Panther” design, which would come less than…
The debate over the drill sergeant’s use of vocabulary aside, the short “Forward March Hare” (1952) is another class in design from Chuck Jones. I rarely see this…
I’ve mentioned my love for Filmation’s Groovie Goolies, from the dumb puns to the dad jokes; yet it’s always the character designs I come back to. Even though the animation…
Robert McKimson, and his brother Charles, don’t get enough credit in the WB universe, in my opinion. I admit they didn’t experiment as the other directors did, like…
“Beep,Beep” (1952) is an all time favorite short, & considering a large chunk of it is an animation cheat, should have earned it an award for ingenuity. To…
“Baby Buggy Bunny” (1954) is a classic, with Chuck Jones is hitting on all cylinders in it. The violent baby shaking scene would be disturbing if you didn’t…
I didn’t know how many classic shorts have fallen into the public domain, and I’m surprised how much of their catalogs the big studios allowed to lapse. One…
More toss away character designs from (mostly) Chuck Jones cartoons. The whole right side is from “Touché & Go” a Pepe cartoon from 1957. The opening characters are…
Sadly, while watching these old shorts I have to put up with the unfortunate lack of sensitivity, be it veiled sexism or (worse) flat out racism. “Southern Fried…