NEW Rankin/Bass Christmas Documentary!

 

 Check this out!   Launched today!  I will be in this new Docu-Series on the Christmas classics, which include plenty of the Rankin/Bass Productions TV Specials.   We need a good documentary like the ones on The Year Without A Santa Claus and Mad Monster Party blu rays!   This may be the ones, with your help!

 

 

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybookcreative/behind-the-nostalgia-pilot?fbclid=IwAR38xUpqBnHxVJg_qT0kFSC7GNMNphN8DHi2SiIF0n_i82-48FNEo-KsuG0

Here is the article in the Daily Herald about tonight's appearance! Dave Harms tells me he has some Amazing Frosty and Christmas stuff in the exhibit!

https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20191204/mchenry-county-museum-celebrates-50-years-of-tvs-frosty-the-snowman?fbclid=IwAR3YiI-jOnD0_8V30YZkN-594yRzv-8via-SHfgQif4GEnI4ExMT93G2uT0

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CBS disappoints with another airing of the horribly edited version of Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Also, fielding many complaints about the 2018 Rudolph and Rankin/Bass blu rays and DVDs, which I had absolutely nothing to do with!

 

I talk about it every year and I am getting tired of it.   The Emmy for the "Worst edited TV Special classic" should go to CBS and all the others that put this badly restored special on the air.  The music still sounds like it is on a warped disc, the animation to "Fame and Fortune" is edited in chops to "We're A Couple of Misfits," as if the editor had a blind fold on, etc.   I talk about it year after year after year and they keep showing the same cut, year after year after year.  Now I am getting emails about the horrible 2018 blu ray and dvd releases.   I had nothing to do with those atrocities.   I will leave it at that.   They could have had value and rare content, but the people involved decided to go another way with them.   That is on them.  

I am still being asked about the BEST Edition of Rudolph and the Rankin/Bass Christmas classics, which came out in 2001!

 

This is still the BEST DVD issued on Rudolph to date!  The one with the CBS logo on it issued in 2001.   Arthur Rankin, Jr. was gracious enough to do the introductions for us and I provided all of the photo and art content in those documentary introductions.   I also provided the cover art photo from my original transparency and was credited.  It features one of the rare promos on the disc (We found three different).   It doesn't get any better than this.   We now have the original 1964 ending in color, which I would love to add one day.   I offered earlier this year, but no takers.  

This is the full box set version!  Frosty also features an Arthur Rankin, Jr. introduction and pencil test.  I am getting so many interviews and emails about these, so I thought I would picture them again.  Golden Books was wonderful!   I miss the people I was dealing with there.   They really cared about the content they were putting out.

PAUL COKER, JR.

Don't forget to come out and meet Paul at the con this Saturday!   We will have some cool MISER BROS pictures that he will be signing for $20 for the set!

Paul Coker, Jr.

I talked to my long-time pal, Rankin/Bass designer Paul Coker, Jr. Monday night!   We are really looking forward to finally meeting in person in Dallas this Friday! ❄ You can come to the North Dallas Comic Con on Saturday 9:30 am until 5 pm!  We will have some special signed items for sale, including my books. If you are not able to make Dallas, stay tuned for our Black Friday offer at www.miserbros.com.  Sign up to our mailing list to be in the loop and get holiday discounts and updates.