Saturday, October 11, 2008

Listed some cool things on EBAY tonight..

Under seller ANIMAGIC1 and MISER BROS. Love this CHICAGO TRIBUNE TV WEEK from July, 1956!


Art by ROY BROWN


MAD MAD MAD MONSTERS

Josh and I watched the MAD MAD MAD MONSTERS tonight and I just realized that I know the entire voice cast. Allen Swift, Bradley Bolke, Rhoda Mann and the late Bob McFadden did all the voices! What a talented bunch!

Heard from DEREK...

His book is delayed by a few weeks. They are being shipped from Portugal.

ERIC JOHNSON

Eric Johnson is coming to the CHICAGO THEATRE Oct. 26 with JIMI HENDRIX's original band. BUDDY GUY, KENNY WAYNE SHEPERD and others are on this tour too! Going to try to check it out. I have seen Eric a few times live and he is one of my favorite guitar players.

KIRSTEN ULVE has a new show

My friend Kirsten has a new show coming up and has three pencil drawings featured: SPREAD THE LEAD
October 16-November 20, 2008
Opening Reception October 16th (Thursday) at Gallery Hanahou from 6-8pm
611 Broadway Suite 730 NYC
rsvp: info@galleryhanahou.com

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

MEOW!

We always humg these black cats in our window at Halloween! They don't make decorations like this anymore.

BURL IVES' home in Anacortes, WA

Doug needed another pic of Burl's home. This one was courtesy of Dorothy Ives.

THE JACKSON 5 SHOW

Another series brought to life by RANKIN/BASS and designed by JACK DAVIS!

THE SMOKEY BEAR SHOW


I am going through images from my book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS, for Doug Ranney and came accross this cool sticker book from THE SMOKEY BEAR SHOW.

JACK O' LANTERN : FESTIVAL OF FAMILY CLASSICS

Another GREAT Halloween show RANKIN/BASS did was JACK O' LANTERN, which was an episode of FESTIVAL OF FAMILY CLASSICS. It is featured on my MOUSE ON THE MAYFLOWER collector's DVD.

MAD, MAD, MAD MONSTERS

Another GREAT RANKIN/BASS Halloween special is the cel animated MAD, MAD, MAD MONSTERS. It originally appeared on the ABC SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE back in 1973. I wrote about it in my book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO.

THE RELUCTANT DRAGON & MR. TOAD SHOW

This is a GREAT RANKIN/BASS series designed by PAUL COKER, JR. and I have it on DVD. MUSHI did the animation for RANKIN/BASS and they were the best at capturing Paul's unique art style!

Monday, October 06, 2008

More music...

www.myspace.com/rgoldschmidt Dennis Riordan and I are practicing up this week for a few live shows. Also doing a recording session at the end of the month.

TALES OF THE WIZARD OF OZ DVDs


Still have volume one and two on DVD of RANKIN/BASS' TALES OF THE WIZARD OF OZ and Volume 3 will be here soon. Enjoy! VERY, VERY popular in Canada (Much of the animation was done there) and in the US.

Cool HALLOWEEN art at PATRICK's blog!

E-mail PATRICK OWLSEY at powsley@flash.net OR visit his BLOG by clicking on his LINK at the right of this page! GREAT art for reasonable prices!!!!

3rd Printing is moving right along...

I heard from DOUG RANNEY this am. He is the original Publisher of my first book. He almost has all the files converted to a new format for the third printing and we are making some minor changes and updates. I am excited about getting THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO back into print!

Sunday, October 05, 2008

SAMANTHA by BOB BENTAVOJA

This is a very nice Halloween piece of art from BEWITCHED that I picked up a few years back by one of my favorite artists.....BOB BENTAVOJA!


GREEN HORNET costume

I wore this GREEN HORNET costume to an ALEX ROSS HALLOWEEN PARTY several years ago and I was a bit too heavy then. I decided to dig it out today and maybe it will make a reappearance with KATO, at another HALLOWEEN PARTY this year.
The mask was made from one of VAN WILLIAM's original masks.
The gas gun was made from an original GREENWAY PRODUCTIONS prop as well.

BRITT RIED! Here is the original GREEN HORNET Van Williams and myself at a CHICAGO CONVENTION many years ago!