I have been drawing cartoon versions of duck-billed platypi since 1975, when I started working on my first animated film. It was called "The Premiere of Platypus Duck."
The playtpi pictured below are among the absentminded "Platypus Duck" doodles that I've drawn over the years.
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ReplyDeletePlatypus Duck meet Perry The Platypus
Ruegs,
ReplyDelete"Platypi? Platypuses?" That is the questtion that's been bothering me ever since 1974 and the 4 floor of Fayerweather.
P.S. Will we see you at Homecoming this weekend?
Phails
If memory serves me...
ReplyDeleteDidn't Platypus Duck appear in an episode of "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo"...?
Lud
Those are so cute. Do you use construction when you draw? Or do you just free hand eveything? If you freehand, it's probably the best freehand I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteHey Phails!
ReplyDeleteI think the correct dictionary plural is platypuses -- but I'm going with the hippopotamus plural.
No trip east this weekend...sorry. Please raise a glass to the new Phi Palace for me.
Saw Mike Pappy Paplow two weekends ago along with Speedy Parker MacDonell...as well as Scotty MacFarlane's daughter Hannah who is now working in Los Angeles. We reminisced about you ...you are a legend!
Thanks Luke
ReplyDeletethey are free hand doodles/sketches
usually start them by drawing rough circles
Lud
ReplyDeleteYou are right -- Platypus Duck made an appearance in the comic strip episode of "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo." He was voiced by Howard Morris. The overseas studio didn't paint the character correctly, so I've never much cared for that episode.
Too cute!
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not....
ReplyDelete...the correct term is "Platypods." Which absolutely NOBODY on Earth uses.
I prefer "Platypi."
Peter
ReplyDeleteThat is fantastic!
"Platypods!"
I have never heard that!
Thanks very much for the info!
Tom
They're adorable!
ReplyDeleteActually, platypods are mollusks. Peter means platypodes, just as octopodes is the technically correct plural of octopus.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the reason it isn't platypi is that, as in octopus, the word is derived from Greek -- not Latin.
ReplyDeletewhat what a smart group!! Very impressive.
ReplyDeleteI think the fact that I call the character Platypus Duck puts me back in the remedial class.
More than one of them would be several Platypus Ducks!
I'll skip the technicalities and call them cartoons :D.
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