Wow!
I feel like Billy Pilgrim.
Thanks, colorbook.
Ohmygosh.
I don't know how I forgot:
When you find yourself in danger
When you're threatened by a stranger
When it looks like you will take a lickin'
There is someone waiting
Who will hurry up and rescue you
Just Bwwwaaaacccckkk for Superchicken!
I loved Hong Kong Phooey, and Battle of the Planets, which I only saw recently in the original Japanese versions. In Japan, the show was called Gatchaman, and it was WAY more violent than the watered down North American version. The stories also made more sense, without all the removed material.
Wow, panzade, Crusader Rabbit! That was a precursor to Rocky and Bullwinkle. I'd love to see some of it again.
When I was really little, I recall seeing old cartoons. As I recall, they featured a cranky old dude (Farmer Brown and Farmer Grey) who fought endless losing battles against mice. There was music but no dialogue, if memory serves.
How about Betty Boop?
How 'bout we open up the interpretation of cartoon to newspaper cartoons?...make this thread spin...
Walt Kelly always went over my head...but I liked the drawings
Good idea re newspaper comics. I also read "Pogo", sometimes not getting the political angle.
Thinking of other old ones, I read "Out Our Way" and "Our Boarding House". Both were one square a day (like "Family Circus" now), and "OBH" featured Major Hoople. Another oldie was "Notary Sojac", if memory serves.
Also "Peanuts", of course and nowadays, "For Better or for Worse" (which get to me despite my cynicism) and "Zippy".
I had the hots for Margo...
While way before my era, I used to treasure the Henry Holt book of the Krazy Kat cartoons:
http://www.krazy.com/toc.htm
"Our Boarding House" (may be hard to read; I hope this gives a flavor of the enterprise):
Before my era but interesting
Who is the Yellow Kid and why is everybody making a fuss over him? The answer is that he was the first successful comic strip character to achieve a popularity so great that he not only increased the sales of newspapers carrying him, but he was also the first to demonstrate that a comic strip character could be merchandised profitably. In fact, for these two reasons, the Yellow Kid and his creator, R. F. Outcault, are generally credited with permanently establishing the comic strip and making it a part of American society.
The Yellow Kid lent his name to the term yellow journalism too, since mostly "scandal sheets" carried the comic.
My favorite cartoons were
fraggle rock
the Gummi Bears
The care bears
The smurfs
Eureeka's Castle
Tom and Jerry
David the Gnome
Donald Duck
Can you tell I am only 20??? lol
