Category: Cartooning

Pumpkin Patch Putdown

In October 1966, [Ray] Bradbury and his daughters sat down together to watch [the first airing of] the Halloween special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and none of them liked it. They were all disappointed that The Great Pumpkin didn’t show up and felt it wasn’t a proper Halloween film at all. Bradbury complained about it over lunch to his friend, animator Chuck Jones, who agreed with him.

https://www.mouseplanet.com/12510/Three_Disney_Halloween_Treats

Ray Bradbury is one of my all-time favorite writers, but I disagree 100% with his reported opinion of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which was written by one of his cartoonist friends named Charles M. I’m not really surprised that the other Charles M. didn’t care for it but, in my opinion, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the best of all animated TV specials.

Cartoony Looney – 116

Trying to work on several different drawing ideas, heading towards some finished, inked pieces, but it seems my WordPress woes will force my brain back into technical thinking, like I had to do at work for so many years. The woman in this quick layout sketch is too “Watterson-ish” looking, I think.

And here we see apparent discord within a Yeti family. He wants them to go bowling, and she wants to take their kid shopping at Target.