Friends.
Sorry for sharing twice in one day, but I need your help with my art. I love mixing cartoons with the bright colors of pop art and so I’m wondering what your favorite cartoons are or were when you were a kid.
What cartoons bring back fond memories?
What cartoons do you remember laughing at when you were a kid?
What shows did you NEVER miss?
I’m game for ANYTHING - Magilla Gorilla? Betty Boop? Felix the Cat? Ren and Stimpy? Ninja Turtles? I wanna hear from YOU.
I’m asking because I need some ideas! I have lots of ideas bouncing around in my head for future paintings, but then it occurred to me - I wonder what y’all used to watch when you were kids? And I wonder how your favorites might spark my creativity?
SO.
Reply to this email or tell me in the comments: what cartoons carry the most nostalgia for you?
Much love.
Glenn || PATREON / ART STUDIO
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Here are some of my latest (all available except for Babs Bunny and Bugs Bunny). Make me an offer (even $0!) and it’s yours.
Being a kid in the late 50s and early 60s, I liked the Flintstones and the Jetsons best.
In the 1970s there was a Mohammad Ali cartoon me and my neighbor Ray Treviño would try to be awake for, though it aired at 6 am.
We knew from our parents that some boxer, Cassius Clay, opposed the Vietnam war, because he practiced some exotic religion, which we thought was cool, though it was hard to wake up in time for his cartoon, but we’d try.
Also, my dad had sent us cheap boxing gloves from Korea, where he was working in a pre-Clinton era when foreign goods were expensive, unless your dad worked in Korea, getting deals.
Having failed to wake up in time for Ali, we’d watch Hong Kong Phooey, about a clueless dog janitor turned PI learning Kung Fu by correspondence, thinking he’s a super hero private I, while a cat actually had his back.
Then Ray and I would talk about how we liked Tom & Jerry episodes where the cat and mouse were friends, though they were trying to kill each other 90% of the time.
Then we’d don the boxing gloves my dad sent us from Korea and punch each other, like Mohammad Ali, who refused to be violent, sort of.