Sneak Peek of SpookyBear 2013

For the last two months, I have been living on a steady diet of Superfriends, Arrow, and comics in general.  I must totally confess that getting involved with SpookyBear in my first off year was completely selfish on my part.  What cartoonist in their right mind wouldn't jump at the chance to channel the Justice League (with Wolverine thrown in) to a bearish audience??  So the interim result is this video which I am sure a lot of my friends have seen already, but for those who might be following me only on Blogger, please enjoy watching this.  If all goes according to plan, there will be even more to see behind the big bar at the Crown & Anchor at the Saturday night costume party at SpookyBear Weekend itself.  I am very happy with the results of this, and am looking forward to making more animation!  Cheers!!

 

This video can also be seen on the following pages:  Hairyer Parts,  Bears & Hunters - Online Express Edition, and of course, the SpookyBear Weekend page.  As of the time I'm writing this, it was uploaded 5 days ago, and already has 399 views!!  The first showing was last Saturday at the Ursamen member's only pig roast... it was a real crowd pleaser!!

Watching Superman II Tonight

Tonight we are watching Superman II. After the horrific events in Boston this week, its time for something fun.

Kellogg's PEP Comic Buttons

So I recently dusted off my old 1945  Superman radio show CD's and gave them a listen the other night.  They're delightfully goofy in all the right places, but the one part that sticks out in a rather odd way are the incessant ads for Kellogg's PEP, "that super-delicious cereal", which sponsored the show.  If you listen to the show and don't get the message that there's a free button in every package, then you must be deaf.  I decided to Google PEP and the buttons to see what they looked like.  They're actually kinda cool.  Most have white backgrounds, and they come in two general types.  The first few sets feature military insignia and war planes.  The second group feature pretty much every comic character featured in the press at the time... Superman, Popeye, Little Orphan Annie, and a lot of others that I don't know but probably should.  They're so simple but they make me want to mint my own buttons with my own characters on them!!  In any case, you can bet I'll be scouring the flea markets this spring for these little gems.  "They sure are a honey!"

1940's Superman Cartoons

I've been catching up on my superhero cartoons and have discovered some of the old 1940's Superman cartoons on Youtube.  These remind me of the old Looney Tunes cartoons that used to look grainy and have a big band soundtrack.  Somewhere in my collection, I have a hardbound book of the old Superman newspaper comic strips (I will have to do a bit on that for "Skeeter's Library"), and I also have a CD set of old Superman and Batman radio programs.  To find the animated cartoons from the 1940's is really great, because now I get to see that "3rd dimension" of video media that easily could have been lost to time.  I really need to find these on DVD... oh, and the 1970's Superfriends cartoons.  For your viewing enjoyment, click on the images below:

My First Comics

Superfriends #13 from 1978. I love it because it has the Wondertwins in it.

Superman 326 also from 1978.

Action Comics 486, from 1978.  These were all Whitman variants, that came in the same package.  I can thank my dad for getting these for me, and starting me down the road as a huge DC Comics fan.