Nez

Been on a big Monkees kick lately. Ah, hell, I’m always on a big Monkees kick. I love ’em. Drew Mike Nesmith, my personal favorite of the group. Would like to draw the others when I have the chance. Still busy as ever with thesis film stuff, as I’ve mentioned 500 times on this blog, though. So we’ll see!

They’re Coming Soon…

Like I mentioned earlier, some plans changed, and the thesis toon I spent most of the past year working on will be coming in 2023, rather than 2022 like expected. Basically, remote learning proving too stressful combined with the fact that I wanted to overhaul a lot of the work I’d done on the film (and some other personal things sprinkled onto the dog-turd sundae that was 2022 here and there) led to me taking a temporary leave-of-absence from my final year at college. I’ll be returning in September, when things are supposedly back-in-person and should flow much more smoothly, hence the new 2023 expectation for the cartoon.

Watch this space!

Ten Pin Alley

My own take on 1959’s “Ten Pin Alley”, one of my favourite Huckleberry Hound cartoons.

It’s a shame that Pierre never caught on as a more prominent Hanna-Barbera villain. He’s a lot of fun to watch. Just a total sleazebag who delights in thinking up underhanded schemes, only for things to blow up in his face in the end. Those kinds of characters are always a blast.

I have some thoughts on HB villains, and why many of them are a bit more complex than that description. If your brain is as damaged as mine, you might find that sorta thing interesting, so I might do a post on it later. I’m trying to get back into lengthier posts on this blog anyways…