Sunday, October 24, 2010

Platypus Duck

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.  

15 comments:

  1. nice

    Platypus Duck meet Perry The Platypus

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ruegs,

    "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

    ReplyDelete
  3. If memory serves me...
    Didn't Platypus Duck appear in an episode of "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo"...?

    Lud

    ReplyDelete
  4. 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.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hey Phails!
    I 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!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thanks Luke
    they are free hand doodles/sketches
    usually start them by drawing rough circles

    ReplyDelete
  7. Lud
    You 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.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Believe it or not....

    ...the correct term is "Platypods." Which absolutely NOBODY on Earth uses.

    I prefer "Platypi."

    ReplyDelete
  9. Peter
    That is fantastic!
    "Platypods!"
    I have never heard that!
    Thanks very much for the info!
    Tom

    ReplyDelete
  10. Actually, platypods are mollusks. Peter means platypodes, just as octopodes is the technically correct plural of octopus.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Oh, and the reason it isn't platypi is that, as in octopus, the word is derived from Greek -- not Latin.

    ReplyDelete
  12. what what a smart group!! Very impressive.

    I 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!

    ReplyDelete
  13. I'll skip the technicalities and call them cartoons :D.

    ReplyDelete