Nothing special for #100, just a random doodle.
Category: Cartooning
Tyer and Tyer Again
Two more 1950’s Terrytoons with Jim Tyer’s unique brand of wackiness mixed in with the more conventional work of other animators.
Several generations of Terrytoons employees came to know Paul Terry’s oft-repeated motto: “Disney is the Tiffany’s in this business, and I am the Woolworth’s.”
Of Mice and Magic, A History of American Animated Cartoons, by Leonard Maltin – Revised and Updated Edition, 1980
Tyered Out Yet?
“How to Relax” — A Terrytoon with a dark take on modern living, in good video quality, featuring some of Jim Tyer’s trademark “all over the place” animation.
Moose and Squirrel…
… and walrus and bird. Hey, wait a sec’!
New Opinions Of Old Cartoons
As a kid I wasn’t a big fan of Terrytoons. Today I can appreciate them for the animation artistry of Jim Tyer. A check of the IMDB shows that in 1935 Tyer was briefly at Disney, long enough to work on only two cartoons. One of them was “Music Land”, and the most amazing thing about this cartoon today is that Disney itself has made it available for embedding.
Just as Carl Barks decided that the confines of the Disney studio, where he was a layout and story man, were not for him, Tyer left Walt for other, less restrictive, opportunities. Barks drew comic books, and so did Tyer, but unlike Carl it was a side job in addition to his day job as an animator.
Tyer spent years working for Paramount’s Famous Studios and Paul Terry’s Terrytoons, both based in New York. Much of Tyer’s work can be seen in cartoons that have fallen into the public domain, and many are available for viewing on a YouTube Terrytoons channel.
Cartoony Looney – 99
There should be a Google Doodle celebrating the invention of colored pencils.
A while ago I posted a Private Snafu cartoon from the U.S. National Archives. Here’s a postwar cartoon from the archives with delightfully creative drawings and animation by the UPA studio. Sponsored by the Navy, the idea was to show it to sailors as a way of encouraging re-enlistment.
McGinty and the bird remind me of “Half Hitch,” a comic strip from the Hank Ketcham studio. Ketcham drew an earlier version of the character while in the Navy during WWII, so perhaps it was an inspiration for McGinty.
