Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Happy Thankgiving
Here's a couple of model sheets that are fitting for Thanksgiving. The first is from Tex Avery's "Jerky Turkey" and the other is from Tex's Screwy Squirrel cartoon "Big Heel-Watha". You'll probably notice that some of the drawings on the "Heel-Watha" model sheet were used in Preston Blair's book. Enjoy the holiday!
Ah, wonderful!! Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Kevin :)
ReplyDeleteI love these model sheets...
By the way, I got ahold of "Dessins of Tex Avery" when I saw you mention it on here :) Very beautiful book, but not very many model sheets- where did you get these, for instance?
Anyway, I always enjoy your posts, as you know :)
I hoped you enjoyed the day Brett.
ReplyDeleteI love the Les Dessin's book, but yeah there's not too many model sheets and I wonder why the Screw Squirrel and Out-Foxed model sheet are printed as negative? But it really is a great book. Most of these Tex Avery model sheets are in Tex Avery:MGM Years. It's also out of print but is an equally beautiful book. It's one of my most treasured possessions. I think "Tex Avery King of Cartoons" has a couple that aren't in either of the other books.
I wish there was a book that featured the art from MGM's cartoon studio. Starting with Harman-Ising's shorts through Tom and Jerry, Tex, Michael Lah's later shorts and especially George Gordon's few shorts. Dick Lundy's too. I can't find anything from those to guys cartoons, except a Barney Bear model sheet and a couple of animation drawings from "Stork's Holiday".
Howard Lowerly is always listing layouts and drawings from the MGM cartoons (and Warners and Disney) on eBay. I've never won anything from him because some OCD case with a ton of cash always wins. You should check his auctions out.
ReplyDeletehttp://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZhlloweryQQhtZ-1
THAD
Yeah I always save the pics from his auctions because I've never won anything. He's auctioned some really great stuff too.
ReplyDeleteJust beware of some of the things he lists as layouts, like this one.
ReplyDeleteThe red line drawing is a bad tracing of the real layout drawing. In essence Soggy paid a tons of cash for a pencil smudged background and a poorly traced drawing.
THAD
Wow these are great! Haven't been by this blog in a while, nice to see your still managing to find and post all these cool cartoon gems for us to view and take in. I need to link to this site, it's just too great!
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