It's Ray Rayner's Centennial Birthday!

Sunday night 🎨

Cartoon party!

PRUNEFACE

Lon Chaney, Jr. as PRUNEFACE from an unproduced episode of Greenway Productions' THE DICK TRACY SHOW.  I would have loved to have seen this!  This would have been an awesome series...the PILOT is Excellent!

RAY RAYNER

 

 Ray was a legend in Chicago Television and here are just a few of the roles he played...

 

 I spoke with my friend Bill Jackson (pictured here with Ray) yesterday :)

Since Ray was in the McDonald's commercial as Ronald, I thought I would celebrate his life in pictures :)

SOAKY TOYS

SOAKY TOYS DVD really did come today! Fun to have all of the coomercials out there on one DVD! Some cool MATTEL Dick Tracy and Space commercials too!

I have been watching alot of UPA animation lately and always enjoy it. They did alot to influence the stylings of cartooning in the late 1950's and early 1960's! I wish there was more art in this style today. A few of my friends have used similar styles in their art. I am doing some designs right now that are somewhat in this style. If you ask me, they can take computers from today's ads and artwork (Especially bad airbrushing art) and go back to simple, clean, flat color designs like this in advertisement and animation!

From my CHICAGO KID'S TV book project!