Issue 7 of Cartoon Cuties has been released.

Now, this is the turning point for the franchise. To step up release of the title and clear my back-log of materials ready to go for the next dozen issues, InDELLible gave me it's blessing to publish the series independently. I HAD a business partner lined up for this, but they had to back out due to time and schedule problems. So for the series to go forward, I need a business partner who can letter and edit future issues, publish them through Amazon in the manner of the existing issues, and then from any profits in sales pay me half. I figure it's a roughly 50-50 effort, as I provide all the artwork and the scripts. I'm rather protective of my vision, so my business partner needs to be willing to let me have the final say about the contents of the book. That said, our partnership should be a fun one, given what we'll be doing. This is only the ground floor of the franchise, after all. My initial plan is to get the back-logged issues 8-20, and a couple spin-off one-shots, on the market as fast as we can get each issue ready. (Then, after those are in print and I'm caught up on what I wrote four years ago, I'll be free to start writing new issues... I do hope it's clear that I intend to retain creative control over the franchise.) So, if you want to see the franchise keep going beyond issue 7, I'll need to find that business partner. Maybe you, or someone you know, has the skill and the time to invest in what will eventually be a break-out franchise? If the idea seriously interests you, drop me a line. Don't let the series end at nine books and 31 cartoons. It's capable of so much more. I can be contacted through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bakercartoons

Cartoon Cuties issue 7 now on sale!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZRD4WSY

Obscure, but there was a female Ninja Turtle once...

Happy Easter, all!

HE IS RISEN!

Fay Radar, a concept I haven't given up on just yet

A Quick Look: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 DREAM WARRIORS (1987-color)

    In the 80's cycle of slasher horror, one franchise stood apart with a degree of intelligence and special effects, although the series could be hit or miss. Wes Craven delivered a superior horror epic called A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET which did boffo box office. In it, teenager Nancy found her friends being bumped off by supernatural killer Fred Kruger, a murderer who had been killed by the parents of his victims only to come back in their dreams as a monster which could kill them in reality. A sequel film, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2, FREDDY'S REVENGE, found Kruger trying to take over the body of the young man who had moved into Nancy's old room in an effort to exit the dream world and step into our world. This one was pretty good too, as 80's monster movies go, but New Line Cinema felt it wasn't quite on par. Craven was brought back to provide the script for the third entry, which stands as the high water mark of the series.

   Heather Langenkamp returns as Nancy, now a dream psychologist who discovers Kruger is again trying to slay the teenage children of Elm Street. Said kids have been gathered at an asylum to which Nancy enters the staff. With nobody but Nancy willing to believe the truth of the situation -that the kids can't risk going to sleep lest they be horribly slain by Kruger, the gang must unite to defeat the bogey man. This is possible thanks to one of the inmates, a young lady who has the power to actually pull others into her dreams.

   This was easily the best entry in the series, not to be matched until Wes Craven and Heather Langenkamp, along with John Saxon, returned for WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE -which was a stand-out bit of fiction that fizzled at the box office possibly due to it's being too intelligent. Meanwhile, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3, DREAM WARRIORS stands as one of the best horror movies of the 80's, and certainly one of the better sequels offered up by a decade noted for it's numerous sequels. (In fact, as a kid, that was how I figured a series was a success or a flop: if it reached a third entry.)

Gwangi drawing for Jim Main, inks by Jeff Austin