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In "The Premiere of Platypus Duck," the search for the platypus duchess takes the platypus trio to the big city, where they find ...

In "The Premier of Platypus Duck" cartoon, after the duck-billed platypus family is established, a flood comes along and carries ...

Back in 1974, I received a grant from my college's film department to make an animated film.   The result was an eleven minute cartoon c...

Coming this week:  images from my first cartoon, "The Premiere of Platypus Duck."   Original cels and drawings were preserv...

Happy 1st Birthday to Cartoonatics!  And thanks to all of you for stopping by over the past year.  Keep those comments coming and...  ...

The Goodfeathers:  Pesto, Bobby and Squit. The actors who provide the voices for Pesto, Bobby and Squit.   Chick Vennera (Pesto), John M...

Look at me  I'm fat again Unlike  Amy Madigan.

        Peter Falk (1927-2011)

Back in the early 90's, Baskin-Robbins sponsored a "Tiny Toon Adventures" float for a couple of years at the annual Pasaden...

To announce the premier of "Animaniacs" in September 1993, it was decided to place an inflated-balloon replica of Yakko Warner ato...

A couple of additional photos of the flagship Warner Bros. Studio Store in NYC back in mid-1995, when they featured "Animaniacs,"...

Before I landed a job in animation, I lived in the New York area and pursued a career in advertising...for about six months.   After that d...

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Another segment from "Mixed Nuts":   "TOONOTOLOGY" Bugs Bunny offers a rambling, incoherent and very-close-to-crazy d...

My alternate title for "Mixed Nuts" was "Toonotopia."  I played around with the original movie poster from Fritz Lang...

Below is another piece of concept art from "Mixed Nutz," the animated show I pitched to Warner Bros. back in 2008 that combines t...

Two more images from the "Mixed Nutz" pitch. Daffy and Yogi argue over their own respective studliness and the kind of musi...

In "Mixed Nutz" (2008),  Doggie Daddy and son have become world-famous hip-hop artists:  namely, Augie Doggy and Scoop Doggie Dad...

A recurring segment on "Mixed Nutz," based on the famous kitschy paintings by C.M. Coolidge:  the dogs of Hanna-Barbera play poke...

More segment concepts from "Mixed Nutz" (2008) -- in this case, TV show parodies.   In this parody of the "Ho...

A few more images from "Mixed Nutz," the animated TV series I pitched to Warner Bros back in 2008.  In "Mixed Nuts," th...

In "Mixed Nutz," Marvin the Martian declares intergalactic war against the Hanna-Barbera cartoon universe, and tangles with the c...

I've always been a big fan of Yakky Doodle, the manipulative little duck (with the funny voice provided by Jimmy Wheldon) who starred i...

By jumbling together the Looney Tunes characters and the stars of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, "Mixed Nutz" was bound to come up with ...