Mister Scribbles

   The thoughtless stage magician Presto DiGiotagione forgets to feed Alec Azam, his rabbit, before a performance.  Hilarity ensues.   Alec is one of the many adorable rabbits cartoons have brought us. And now, Presto, the film! https://youtu.be/D4Dnm6dkOVI   Presto was made in 2008 by Pixar Studios, a Walt Disney acquisition.    Treat them bunnies right!    

Wallace Tripp, of course.     Wallace Whitney Tripp, 78, passed away in Francestown, NH on September 9, 2018, after a three-decade struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Tripp was a children’s book illustrator who had a brief but productive career, ultimately illustrating some thirty-nine children’s books for other authors, and nine books of his own, as well as creating hundreds images for Pawprints Greeting Cards. Tripp started his career in children’s books; popular titles include “Stand Back,” Said the Elephant, “I’m Going to Sneeze!”, A Great, Big, Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me, Sir Toby Jingle’s Beastly Journey, and two books in the Amelia Bedilia series. His pen-and-ink and watercolor style of drawing was meticulous and classical, but his love of comic book art kept subjects lively. Tripp specialized in anthropomorphic animals, often dressed in carefully researched period costumes. He admired the story telling of illustrator Ernest S...

With the sickening heat and humidity gone, Billy feels like a kid again.  What fun!  

“What are you doing out here all alone? Aren’t you afraid of me?” Simon shook. “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast.” Simon’s mouth labored, brought forth audible words. “Pig’s head on a stick.” “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” The laughter shivered again. “Come now,” said the Lord of the Flies. “Get back to the others and we’ll forget the whole thing.” Simon’s head wobbled. His eyes were half closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick. He knew that one of his times was coming on. The Lord of the Flies was expanding like a balloon. “This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there—so don’t try to escape!”  ...

    What the hammer? what the chain,  In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp,  Dare its deadly terrors clasp!  Old Mother Flipper Flopper jumped out of the bed; Out of the window she cocked her head, Crying, "John, John! The grey goose is gone And the fox is on the town-o, town-o, town-o, Crying, "John, John! The grey goose is gone And the fox is on the town-O! https://youtu.be/r_dQFVSbyrY   https://youtu.be/UXqGkjiD-1k   3 X AlemCoksa   https://www.deviantart.com/alemcoksa   Inhuman is what we do here.   Captions from William Blake, the traditional folk song The Fox as performed by Burl Ives, and a sample from Serge Prokofiev, Peter And The Wolf.  

"For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” Matthew 8:9 NIV "For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear. For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat; for an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress." -- PROV. XXX. 21-22-23. Three things make earth unquiet And four she cannot brook The godly Agur counted them And put them in a book -- Those Four Tremendous Curses With which mankind is cursed; But a Servant when He Reigneth Old Agur entered first. An Handmaid that is Mistress We need not call upon. A Fool when he is full of Meat Will fall asleep anon. An Odious Woman Married May bear a babe and mend; But a Servant when He Reigneth Is Confusion to the end. His feet are swift to tumult, His hands are slow to toil, His ears are dea...

 Good fences make good neighbors.

Alone and broke in a strange land, Reepicheep sells his sword to the local king.  Already things are off to a bad start.  But, thinks the mouse, promotion is going to be swift, what with the two upcoming vacancies and all. https://youtu.be/GzQJaA0Fl0M?t=132  Reepicheep, Pauline Baynes.  It's not the size of the mouse in the fight, but...  

  Chappy Chipmunk, The Fighting Yank #19, February 1947    Jack Bradbury, Pencils  https://jbrad.org/index-2.html Cover art Alex Schomburg.  Running a funny animal story in a superhero comic is just strange.   Nedor Comics. Supermouse,  Coo Coo Comics #37, January 1948 A certain member of the team over at Hybrid Online is having a chipmunk problem.  He should be aware that small animals can have huge talents.    

Giggle Comics #6, March 1944. Rabbits are not to be trusted.  The owl's vaunted intelligence is no more than not being as stupid as everyone else in this comic.  Notice the mention of Superkatt: Superkatt, Dan Gordon.  Superkatt is an ordinary if delusional cat without super powers.  He wears a bonnet, diapers and a bow tie.  The art style is incredibly close to Jack Bradbury's.  https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/superkatt-his-story/#prettyphoto[12583]/3/ Ha Ha Comics # 81, December 1951.  

 Button Bright, ( Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith), his head temporarily changed into that of a fox by King Dox of Foxville. "Clever! clever indeed. Of course you don't know. Nobody knows why; we only know it's so, and can't tell why it's so. Button-Bright, those curls and blue eyes do not go well with so much wisdom. They make you look too youthful, and hide your real cleverness. Therefore, I will do you a great favor. I will confer upon you the head of a fox, so that you may hereafter look as bright as you really are." As he spoke the King waved his paw toward the boy, and at once the pretty curls and fresh round face and big blue eyes were gone, while in their place a fox's head appeared upon Button-Bright's shoulders—a hairy head with a sharp nose, pointed ears, and keen little eyes. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26624/26624-h/26624-h.htm#CHAP_4   Eureka the white Kitten.  The last third of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz p...