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Cuddly

Did some digging for the show...Cud and I go way back! #cuddlydudley #chicagotribune #rickgoldschmidtcollection

This was a Chicago Tribune spotlight from December 22, 2002. You can see my Animagic figures in the background!

This article posted in the Chicago Tribune was lots of fun!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-oak-lawn-christmas-st-1223-20161222-story.html

We have a few 20th Anniversary books in-stock right now, but selling fast!  www.miserbros.com

Cuddly Dudley for 🎄

Dick Locher R.I.P.

My friend Patrick Owsley alerted me that Dick Locher, one of our very favorite artists, passed away at 88!  Dick and I had a long chat about his Ronald McDonald painting series from 1970, after I picked one up.  Kroc hired him, after trying to get Norman Rockwell.  Locher exceeded expectations, just as he did with Dick Tracy!  I look at his Ronald painting every day.  Rest in peace.  #dicklocher #chicagotribune #naperville #dicktracy #ronaldmcdonald #raykroc

Media requests 🎅🎄⛄❄

 

I am ready for my annual Holiday radio and TV interviews!   I can help with magazine and newspaper articles as well!   Last year I did somewhere between 75-100 radio interviews across the country and a dozen national and local TV Appearances.   We do have a Press request form right here http://miserbros.com/press/

We also have Press releases about my books, including a brand new press release on my newest book, The Arthur Rankin, Jr. Scrapbook:  The Birth of Animagic hardcover.   If you would like to spice up your holiday radio and TV programming and go behind the scenes on the Rankin/Bass Holiday TV specials and films, I am your man!   I could talk at length about all the changes made to the Rudolph TV Special 50 years ago this year, in 1965.   I can talk about Rankin/Bass' Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town on it's 45th Anniversary!  I can also talk about the fact that Rankin/Bass' Frosty the Snowman is 46 this year, BUT the Blu Ray and DVD releases incorrectly say 45th Anniversary!   Someone can not count, just like Frosty in the sequel Frosty's Winter Wonderland, where he skates a figure 9.  Paul Coker, Jr. and I already did a holiday interview for MARKETPLACE/NPR'S MORNING SHOW, so listen for that!   Look forward to talking to many others this great Holiday season! 

MEDIA regarding ARTHUR RANKIN, JR.

I have helped many high profile newspapers with their obituaries on Mr. Arthur Rankin, Jr. this past week.
I hope I am wrong, but I haven't seen one single piece in the news media (with the exception of the online YAHOO! piece) since his passing January 30th.  If you have seen something in your local news, please let me know.   The news will talk all day and night about heroin and Justin Bieber egging a house BUT when it comes to the producer of the longest-running, highest rated TV special of all-time and many other memorable films, I see and hear nothing.  Shameful! 

Found the December 9th, 1980 CHICAGO TRIBUNE in my Garage today..

The Sports section has an article on the CHICAGO CUBS trade for Leon Durham for Bruce Sutter...it also has a full BEATLES page on the back of that section. What a horrible day in history!

Dick Locher to end his 32 year run on DICK TRACY

On March 14th, the DICK TRACY comic strip will have a new team working on it. Dick Locher has decided to move on and do some other things BUT will continue doing editorial cartoons.

Dick and I talked about his McDonald's paintings. I have an alternate version of the painting above that he painted the boy on the left as a white boy. He said Ray Kroc wanted to get Norman Rockwell to do the paintings and somehow found his way to him.

Dick's TRACY work will be missed. My parents recall a dinner he attended with them for a police function some years back.

Remembering a horrible day...30 years later...

from my CHICAGO KID'S TV BOOK Project

Many years ago with my first CUDDLY DUDLEY!

This was not a good day in 1980