Theory Corner will resume on Monday, July 30th, when every body's back from the San Diego Con! If you're going to the Con be sure to look for the SPUMCO booth in the celebrity signing room. The booth will be manned (girled?) by Kali Fontechio and Marlo Meekins, two beautiful and talented Spumco artists who'll do caricatures for the fans. This is not to be missed! These girls are smokin'! Just so you recognize them, that's Kali above. The handsome, worldly guy is, well shucks!,...me!
Kali does great color pictures! Here's (above) a Kali caricature of one of her co-workers.
Here's (above) a Fontechio drawing of a girl dressed the way girls would dress if heterosexual men ruled the world.
Here's Marlo Meekins (above)! Men, if you're going to meet Marlo be sure to bring bring a large bucket to drool in! Wives, be sure to bring a rolling pin to separate your husband from Marlo!
Marlo's always winning awards for caricature. Here's a quick sketch she did of herself (left), Katie Rice (middle), and Kali (right), the Three Caballeros!
Here's (above) the ultimate sketch of Marlo and cartoonist/animator David Gemmel. David looks just like this...in the face, I mean!OK, see ya next Monday, July 30th, after the Con!
Booth AA7, right?
ReplyDeleteWill you be around Uncle Eddie??
Have fun at the convention!
ReplyDeleteAre you going to be there?
ReplyDeleteEddie, if you have time come by my booth #5107, (in area G)listed as RedTango. Help me take a break from the madness!
ReplyDeleteCynthia
Hey, I helped with the Eddiesaurus! :(
ReplyDeleteHave fun at the convention for me...be wary of scary stalkers!
Bye Eddie. Hopefully, I will see you there next year.
ReplyDeleteCynthia, Anon, Nico: Naw, I can't be there this year. Next time, hopefully.
ReplyDeleteKatie: Aaaargh! Sorry for the wrong attribution! I'll see if i can change the text!
Jennifer, PC: Thanks! See you in a week!
ReplyDelete>>Here's (above) a Fontechio drawing of a girl dressed the way girls would dress if heterosexual men ruled the world.<<
ReplyDelete"IF heterosexual men ruled the world"? IF!?!? Eddie, who do you think runs the world, lesbians? Have you seen most of the leaders of the 1st world countries? Looks like wealthy, pasty, middle-aged heterosexual white men to me. I could be wrong, though.
Corporate America is run by a bunch of mayonnaise swallowin' gerbil owners.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know they owned Gerbils.
ReplyDeleteHave fun ya'll! Wish I could be there! BTW Eddie, I took a page from your book here. You're my animation aesthetics guru now!
ReplyDeleteDude! Smokin hot chics, I'm there.
ReplyDeleteLester: Wow! Nice article and I'm honored to have appeared in it!
ReplyDelete"Have fun ya'll! Wish I could be there! BTW Eddie, I took a page from your book here."
ReplyDelete...And you took the image accompanying your entry from my blog here.
; )
Obviously the image doesn't legally belong to me but to Disney--but I did bother to find it, import it into Photoshop and crop it (and adjust it) before uploading my own version to Flickr and posting it to my review of the film, which took a little effort and time. *shrugs*
Jenny,
ReplyDeleteI've added an acknowledgement and a link to my post! Sorry! I had meant to and simply forgotten to do so earlier.
Wow - Marlo and Kali are in good company! I just read a write-up about the con on MSNBC. It's apparently a major deal - lots of people in the entertainment industry attend this con.
ReplyDeleteWait a second, does that mean Spumco isn't over? Is John using that name again, officially?
ReplyDeleteI just used Spumco as a familiar term so people would know who the girls are if they didn't already.
ReplyDeleteSpumko is like Kleenex
But don't wipe your nose on it.
ReplyDeleteIT'S UP, EDDIE.
ReplyDeleteGood Lord! You actually put it up on your site!!!!!!! It's hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI love John K's blog but the way people suddenly develop scholarly opinions on obscure artists or concepts reminds me a lot of this article http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28079
ReplyDeleteYou and John K are the 2 top authorities on animation on earth in my book but its really cute to me when John will do an article and youll see 5 paraphrased versions of that article on other blogs, Youre definitely going to see people writing "ah yes, Post was definitely the most appealing artist at harveytoons" by people who just heard of him today.
ReplyDeleteOf course thats much better than the people who write paragraph after paragraph trying to convince John how awesome anime is
Anon: Things like that used to bother me but not any more. We all talk like experts about things we only just found out about. Why not, it's fun.
ReplyDeleteI talk about Meisner's theories of acting with an outward confidence even though a month ago I didn't know who he was. I do it because it's fun and because by putting it out there I'm likely to provoke interesting comments by people who know more than I do. Learning is social. It's all about give and take, and it has to be fun or we won't do it.
I know there's an extreme of this where the new guy comes off as obnoxious. That's obviously to be avoided.
Thats true, it was more of an observation than something that really bugged me.
ReplyDeleteI mostly scroll through the comments on Johns blog till I get to something he wrote anyways. This Blog seems to avoid the riffraff but Johns Blog seems to have a few unfun people that dont like cartoons that drone on for 9 paragraphs about how John is closeminded for not appreciating anime or not worshipping bruce timm
what do you think of saul steinberg?
ReplyDeleteAnon: Steinberg is great! Among other things he does great parodies of modern architecture. I'll try to do a blog on him sometime soon.
ReplyDeleteHey Eddie,
ReplyDeleteI found a site that talks about what was on TV in 1988, and there's mention of Bakshi's Mighty Mouse about 2/3 down the page on the left.
http://www.tvparty.com/sat88.html
The really interesting part of that is the news clip of a story conference for the show's 1988-1989 season. Ralph and John are pretty prominent in it, but at around 2:15 in the clip there's a brief shot where you can clearly make out Tom Minton, You, and John all sitting in a row:
http://www.tvparty.com/vault4/bakshimm.ram
God--that clip is weird!!! It's like freaking time travel!
ReplyDeleteAnd btw that's one of the best party-throwers-ever Jim Reardon in the 40s snap brim, unshaven appearance and the redoubtable Kent Butterworth right after that. Both worked on The Simpsons after TT. Jim is still there, I believe?
No, Jenny, Jim left The Simpsons and went up to Pixar about three years ago and is working as a story supervisor on Andrew Stanton's big 2008 feature, Wall-E. And while I am in that clip wearing a bright blue sweatshirt, so are brief glimpses of a young Jeff Pidgeon and J.C. Wegman. This footage was shot in January of 1988, and later that same day Ralph learned that Mighty Mouse would indeed get a pickup, though only for five half hours. They shot over an hour of stuff for this piece, I think it was for PBS, and used but a few moments.
ReplyDeleteTom Minton
Good Grief! I remember that! is that a mullet on John's neck!?
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