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Dhave!

davethadThat’s me with David Gerstein (both of us sporting sexy t-shirts of cartoon characters nobody gives a shit about). David has a blog. Go visit it. NOW. One of his first posts is about a Warner cartoon ending I told him probably didn’t exist. I’ve been proven wrong. One of the nicest things about being proven wrong by David Gerstein is that you’ll hear about it once, but that’s the end of it.

David is one of the most generous animation/comics guys out there and his blog will be a reflection of it. David’s own non-cartoon shenanigans in real life are just as interesting as anything he’ll post, but as Lou Jacobi says in Irma La Douce, “that’s another story.”

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Always Love Thy Neighbor, Doodle-Oodle-Loodle-Doodle-Doo

The Fox and Crow: the characters the Columbia studio accidentally got right (but only a few times).

This is probably the best of the post-Tashlin shorts, the underrated Bob Wickersham’s Mr. Moocher. The characters here are fully-realized, with interesting, discernible traits. We want to learn more about who these guys are and see them in more cartoons, which is not a feeling we get in other F&C cartoons. The animation and drawings are solid and funny. Frank Graham does a brilliant job with the milquetoast Fauntleroy, and uses his beloved conman voice heard in several MGM and Disney cartoons for Crawford. It also has a coherent story that actually builds up to a satisfying conclusion (this is not a trait one finds in many Columbia cartoons). The whole mooching/’chiseler’ concept would be cribbed for the wonderful comic books with these guys (and eventually for just about every DC funny animal comic too).

This is from a time coded VHS that originated from Jerry Beck and circulated almost eight years ago amongst collectors. Those were fun times when people actually sought out this stuff with their own time and money, and not just sit on their ass and wait for stuff to be handed to them on YouTube.

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Easter Greetings

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ABC Bugs Bunny Meme

I thought it’d be fun if the blogs started an ABC meme of their favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons. Because what’s more constructive than making a list of favorite films without offering any kind of reasoning behind their inclusion? I’ll go first.

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Bugs Bunny Shoots Japs in the Head
Captain Hareblower in the Back-alley
Duck! Rabbi, Duck!
Elmer’s Hidden Dorm Camera
French-Kissing Rarebit Sores
Gorilla My Wetdreams
Hare-ing AIDs
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
Jack-Wabbit the Ripper
Knighty Knight Klu Klux Klan Bugs
Long-Hared Hippie Fuck
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Yeggs
Now Hare This Motha-Fucka
Operation: Rabbit Genocide
Pubic Hare
Queer Duck
Ramadan Rabbit
Suck My Ass on Main Street (a personal favorite of mine and all of the men on my mom’s side of the family)
Touch of Elmer
The U.N. Versus Daffy Duck
Viva La Resistance! (banned in France and Quebec)
The Wabbit Who Came
Xenophobic Bunny
Yank My Doodle Bugs
Zulu Follies

Who wants to go next? Hmmm? What? No one? Fuck you all then.

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