Merry Christmas, all!

 

Issue 4 of Cartoon Cuties now on sale!

 

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A Chipmunk Christmas Card

 

 I haven't sent out Christmas cards this year because I simply don't trust the post office to deliver on time. But here's my Christmas card to all my friends. God bless you, and Merry Christmas!

Brand new cartoon on YouTube!

 

 

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An American Eagle

 

A Quick Look: GODZILLA 1985 (1985 - color)

   With it's mix of new and familiar, GODZILLA 1985 was a video rental staple for a good decade. I imagine any number of mom and pop outlets supported themselves almost exclusively with the rental fees from this one picture, each store stocking a minimum of three copies where most videos were stocked in single Units. The film was a high mark of the series, a good back-to-basics story concerning Godzilla's sudden re-appearance after 30 years. Raymond Burr returns, making reporter Steve Martin one of three classic characters Burr reprised in that decade (the other two being the titular characters of TV staples Ironside and Perry Mason). Sadly, it now stands as the most obscure of the series! The videos themselves are now sought after collector's items. Fortunately, since they were pressed for the rental market, most of them still play like brand new if in moderately good condition.

Judy Hopps pinups

 

Commissions from back in September

 

A Quick Look: GODZILLA VS THE THING (1964 - color)

   Big Blue Dinosaur has been described as Japan's chief cultural export. This one an almost universal favorite, GODZILLA VS THE THING. In the film, a hurricane has demolished much of Japan's coastline, and also washed up on the beach a gigantic egg. The egg is put on display in a massive incubator, which seems a bad idea when your egg is the size of a football stadium... Anyway, it turns out the egg belongs to Morthra, giant insect monarch of a tiny island. The natives are desperate to get the egg back before it hatches and unleashes havoc. In the meantime, it's discovered that Godzilla has also been tossed about by the hurricane and ended up buried under an industrial complex. When Godzilla suddenly emerges, he sets his sights on Mothra's egg... It's hard to find a Godzilla movie with better production value and overall polish. If you need an introduction to the franchise, you could do a lot worse than start here. The American version even features a sequence with Godzilla that wasn't used in the Japanese prints! Made the rounds on video and television some decades ago under the title "Godzilla vs Mothra" and the title has frustratingly enough stuck with it.

A Quick Look: HOW TO STEAL THE WORLD (1968 - color)

   The popular teleseries The Man From UNCLE was spun off into a half-dozen or so feature films. These were largely created from two-part episodes of the series, but they often included material shot specifically for the film version (material of a shockingly frank adult nature at times). These features were released in England and other English-speaking countries (and may have even scored some screenings in US theaters). I was fortunate to've taped at least three of them from a marathon TCM hosted one weekend. HOW TO STEAL THE WORLD may be my favorite of those three. In it, renegade UNCLE agent Barry Sullivan plots to bring about world peace through the aid of a mind-stealing docility gas. Quite the cast in these pictures. This one features not only the show's cast and the aforementioned Barry Sullivan, but also Leslie Neilsen, Eleanor Parker, Mark Richman, Daniel O'Herlihey, and quick cameo by Hugh Marlowe.

Just because I love them...

 

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