Rankin/Bass-historian

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Coming SEPTEMBER 8th to a store near you!

My pal ALEX ROSS

Josh and I love this original page from MARVELS. It was from the third book and features alot of the super heros and arch enemies! I love the fact that another pal of mine is in some of the panels..Mark Braun!

This is a prototype bust of ALEX's dad Clark, who appeared in KINGDOM COME and at all of Alex's annual halloween parties! Alex later had more made in various colors. This was one of the first casted. Always loved this!

BOZO'S CIRCUS

I made two of these on foam core board from an original one of a kind sign made in the 1960's for a BOZO'S CIRCUS bowling event.

HARRY HARE from THE GEISHA BOY

Going through some of my cooler collectibles...trying to decide what I should keep and what I should sell. Always loved this JERRY LEWIS collectible! I also have several JERRY and DEAN hand and marionette puppets.

Monday, August 03, 2009

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY PVC sets

I talked to Kevin at www.timeandspacetoys.com recently and he said the #1 thing selling right now in the world of RANKIN/BASS are the ROUND 2 LITTLE DRUMMER BOY figure sets. He said he may sell out of stock with the PRE-ORDERS, well before the holidays. I asked if there would be a second wave of stock, to which he replied no.

Photograph by Dennis Bleck

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Cheers!

My pals MITCH O' CONNELL and SHAG in the heat of summer! Who is that behind the bar...could that be Ron Murphy?

MARCO

This is a little known RANKIN/BASS film from 1973 starring DESI ARNAZ, JR. that has a wonderful ANIMAGIC sequence in it called "Peace Berries." Look for it on DVD from VCI. Romeo Muller makes a cameo and has some good BASS/LAWS songs in it!

BOZO'S CIRCUS

From my CHICAGO KID'S TV book project!

RECORDING 'RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS' Tempe, AZ 2006

George Keller (Engineer), Robin Wilson (Producer/Lead Singer of GIN BLOSSOMS) and myself at URANUS STUDIOS in Tempe, AZ 2006.

Playing Robin's vintage GIBSON acoustic on "Baby's Song"

GUITAR HERO Scott Johnson of the GIN BLOSSOMS

Saturday, August 01, 2009

This is the art MITCH did for THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO. The original art was bought by my friend Paul Dini. I used it for our CD #1.

Mitch's HANNA-BARBERA

My friend Mitch sent these over to me tonight and I thought I would share them with you! I love how he used the classic HANNA-BARBERA characters but invoked his own style into the characters and design. These were all pencil roughs for an international H-B project that Mitch did finished paintings, which I have posted in the past. Mitch did the original cover art for my first book before PAUL COKER did the one we ended up using. I asked Mitch to do the art, because I knew he would also do interesting things with the RANKIN/BASS characters.