I'm not sure what year this presentation art is from, but it's for a proposed character named DAN'L BONE. Though the DAN'L BONE series never made it to production, it looks like it could have been another hit TV series for HANNA-BARBERA. From the looks of the second presentation board, it appears the show may have involved time travel. Great looking character and art! Be sure to click on each image for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
The other day, I received an e-mail from blog reader Dom Giansante of Forest Grove, OR. Dom wrote, "Those presentation boards are so fun!!! I love seeing character designs of my favorite characters - before they became how we know them now!! Keep them coming!! I am fascinated!" Dom is speaking of my recent postings of HANNA-BARBERA presentation art. Without hesitation, here's 1964 presentation art for ATOM ANT! I'm also posting a 1965 ATOM ANT title card for "Ferocious Flea", showing you the character's transition from concept to TV screen. Click on each image to enlarge! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
The other day, I posted presentation art for Hanna-Barbera's FRANKENSTEIN JR.. Here's another great vintage piece from my HANNA-BARBERA reference file. It's 1965 presentation art for SECRET SQUIRREL and MOROCCO MOLE. SECRET and MOROCCO ended up looking quite differently when their cartoons went into production. I'm also posting a 1965 SECRET SQUIRREL & MORROCO MOLE cartoon title card for "Yellow Pinkie" and a piece of SECRET SQUIRREL character art that I did a few years ago. You can really see how the characters evolved. Even the spelling of MORROCO was different from the presentation art to the title card. I've got more classic HANNA-BARBERA presentation art that I'll be posting soon. Keep checking back! Be sure to click on each image for a larger view! You can e-mail me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Congratulations to BARRY BONDS of the San Francisco Giants on becoming Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader. BONDS hit home run #756 tonight off of MIKE BACSIK of the WASHINGTON NATIONALS. BONDS broke the previous home run record of 755 held by HANK AARON, by hitting the historic home run at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco. Although BONDS may now have hit the most home runs in Major League Baseball history, HANK AARON is the real HOME RUN KING! I've posted a 2003 Topps Fan Favorite reproduction of a HANK AARON 1975 baseball card. 
Here's something from my Hanna-Barbera reference files that I'm sure you'll enjoy. It's a 1966 presentation board for one of my favorite Hanna-Barbera super TV heroes, FRANKENSTEIN JR.! I'm also posting another 1966 presentation board of proposed Hanna-Barbera villains. These look like villains for THE IMPOSSIBLES. Be sure to click on each image for a larger view!
I recently signed the Independent Contractor's Agreement that was sent to me by ARCHIE COMICS. I'll be doing hand-lettering for ARCHIE digest stories. I want to thank Archie Editor, Mike Pellerito, for the work!
I'm posting a few children's activity/coloring book covers that I helped create for Golden Books a few years ago. These are my inkings over pencil art by Hanna-Barbera artist, Mark Christiansen. Here's YOGI BEAR and BOO BOO with RANGER SMITH, and TOM & JERRY. I don't believe I ever saw the finished covers (with colors) for these books. If anyone has them, I'd love to have scans of them. Click on each image to enlarge! Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Recently, I received an e-mail from blog reader, Lud Hughes. Lud wrote -- 
Here's recent art of THE BEATLES...just as they appeared in their 1965 ABC-TV Saturday morning cartoon. I did each 8" x 10" image with brush, pen & ink on bristol board. Hopefully, we'll see an official DVD release of THE BEATLES cartoons soon. Click on each image to enlarge!
In observance of today's release of the SPACE GHOST & DINO BOY 2-disc DVD set, I'm posting a couple of SPACE GHOST items. The first item is a SPACE GHOST cartoon title card for "Zorak", signed by the voice of SPACE GHOST, GARY OWENS! I've met Gary a few times and he's very personable and just an all-around great guy! Gary also provided the voice for another one of my favorite cartoon heroes, ROGER RAMJET. I always thought it would have been cool if Gary Owens had been the voice of BUZZ LIGHTYEAR. Back to SPACE GHOST -- below the signed SPACE GHOST title card, is a piece of SPACE GHOST character art that I inked at Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The art was penciled by super-talented artist Jerome Moore. This is a photocopy of the inked art that I colored with markers, then I added the simple outer space background. I also want to mention that the BIRDMAN & THE GALAXY TRIO 2-disc DVD set was released today! Both DVD sets are part of the Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. Click on each image to enlarge!
Here's an item that I just received from Tony Knight, the Creative Director at Classic Media. It's a new UNDERDOG folder that features my UNDERDOG character art. This may have been one of Classic Media's give-a-ways at the recent Licensing Show in New York. I'm posting the folder's front cover, back cover and one of the folder's inside pockets. Tony also sent me the new UNDERDOG 3-disc DVD box set which will be in stores July 24th. I highly recommend the DVD set! Thanks, Tony, for the UNDERDOG package! Be sure to check out www.underdogshow.com . Click on each image for a larger view! 
I've got an ADAM WEST style 1966 TV cowl replica currently up for auction on Ebay. You won't find one better anywhere. Just a little less than two days to go on the auction. Click here to bid! While you're at it, take a look at the cartoon art and the signed HANNA and BARBERA cartoon title cards that I have up for auction, as well. Thanks!
It's a pleasant Monday here in the San Fernando Valley today! Be sure to take a look at my Ebay auctions here. Thanks!
Jon Knutson covers all things TV, cartoons, sci-fi, collectibles and more over on his blog Jon's Random Thoughts. Not long ago, Jon took some of my art and created these great looking mock comic book covers for TENNESSEE TUXEDO and GROOVIE GOOLIES. Jon has a section on his blog of the various fake comic covers that he's put together called COMICS THEY NEVER MADE. My personal favorites are Jon's comic covers for THE BEATLES. Jon does a great job with his blog and posts something just about every day. Be sure to check out Jon's blog! ADDED on July 6, 2007 -- Jon tells me that his weekly column, COVER STORIES, at World Famous Comics also features his wonderful COMICS THEY NEVER MADE comic covers! Jon's COVER STORIES column is terrific, so be sure to check that out as well!
Have a happy and safe 4th of July! Tonight, Leslie and I will be heading down the street to CBS here in Studio City for their annual 4th of July festival and fireworks display. They do a great fireworks show every year over there at CBS! Here's the POWERPUFF GIRLS wishing America a very happy 231st birthday! HAPPY 4th of JULY!
I thought I'd post my very first MR. MAGOO assignment. Back in 2003, my friend Robert Conte asked me to illustrate the cover to a MR. MAGOO "flip" comic book that he was publishing with Airwave Comics. The "flip" book featured two MAGOO stories and two covers. My cover was for a story commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight. The story was "a color-it-yourself adventure" written by Michael Eury with art by Gary Fields. The other cover is by Bill Morrison for the comic adaptation of the classic MR. MAGOO's CHRISTMAS CAROL. Click on the image to enlarge!
I highly recommend THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN DVD set from Warner Bros.! The 2-disc set was released yesterday. It's the 1966 CBS-TV Saturday morning series that was produced by Filmation. The action-packed series starred the voices of BUD COLLYER as SUPERMAN / CLARK KENT and JOAN ALEXANDER as LOIS LANE. JACKSON BECK was the Narrator and JIMMY OLSEN was voiced by JACK GRIMES. GRIMES was also the voice of SPARKY in the classic 1960s cartoon, SPEED RACER. If you haven't already, pick up the DVD set today! Above is the DVD cover art that I did for East West Entertainment of Brooklyn, NY. East West produced a few volumes of the public domain 1940s Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons. As you can see, I used a CURT SWAN-style SUPERMAN, but altered the "S" chest emblem to look like that of the Fleischer SUPERMAN "S" emblem. Click on the image to enlarge. You can reach me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
I was just going through my files and came across this piece. It's FELIX FLANKIN from the 1967 Rankin/Bass "animagic" feature film, MAD MONSTER PARTY. The film starred the voice talents of BORIS KARLOFF, PHYLLIS DILLER and ALAN SWIFT. I created the FELIX art with markers, colored pencils and brush & ink on coquille board. Click on FELIX to enlarge. Rankin/Bass produced the classic holiday TV specials RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS, SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN, LITTLE DRUMMER BOY and many more! Take a look at Rick Goldschmidt's Rankin/Bass blog by clicking here. Rick is the official Rankin/Bass historian and author. His blog is everything Rankin/Bass. E-mail any questions or comments to me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Here's JUDY JETSON with her father, GEORGE JETSON! This was one of the many pieces I inked for the current JETSONS style guide. Legendary Hanna-Barbera designer IWAO TAKAMOTO pencilled the art. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
Here's a few more pieces of LOONEY TUNES character art that I inked for Warner Bros. Consumer Products in Burbank. I believe this art was used for the LOONEY TUNES edition of the boardgame MONOPOLY. It's DAFFY DUCK, FOGHORN LEGHORN and PRISSY. Be sure to click on each image to enlarge.
Here's a few more pieces of LOONEY TUNES licensing art that I helped create at Warner Bros. Consumer Products. I did the inking on MARVIN THE MARTIAN, PETUNIA PIG and SPEEDY GONZALEZ. The colors on MARVIN and PETUNIA were done by one of the WBCP designers. PETUNIA PIG is a character that you really don't see anymore, but I thought it was neat that they wanted to create a PETUNIA piece for a style guide. I'm also posting an old newspaper advertisement for an ALL CARTOON FUN JAMBOREE at the "Comfortably Cool" RIALTO theatre. Treats for the children, too! I don't know what cartoons were shown that day, but perhaps most of them were LOONEY TUNES. I'm not sure how old this advertisement is or where this Rialto theatre was, but I thought you'd enjoy seeing it! I love the BUGS BUNNY head that was used in the ad!
Leslie and I had breakfast late yesterday morning at Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City. After breakfast, we ran into the great character actor and voice artist, CHUCK McCANN. Chuck was there with one of his dogs, Judy. We had actually stopped to admire his dog when I recognized Chuck. We talked for a few minutes and I mentioned that I still needed to pick up the newly-released COOL McCOOL DVD set from BCI Eclipse. As you know, Chuck did many voices for the 1960s cartoon series. Just then, Chuck asked us to keep an eye on his dog. He went to his car and returned with a brand-new COOL McCOOL DVD set for Leslie and I. What a great guy! Chuck graciously signed the DVD set for us. Chuck is featured in audio commentaries and interviews with Wally Wingert. Wally produced the DVD set and is also a talented voice artist (Family Guy). Chuck McCann has a really nice website and you can take a look at it here. He's still adding things, but it looks great so far! If you haven't already, be sure to pick up COOL McCOOL on DVD! Thanks, again, Chuck...Leslie and I hope to see you again at Sportsmen's Lodge!
I was recently hired by packaging and branding firm Mark Oliver Inc. to create two character trademarks for health food manufacturer Food for Life. Gary Torres at Food for Life wanted a chicken and cow who were super-heroes. Gary named them CLUCKPHREY & MOOPHREY and after a few rounds of pencil concepts and revisions, here's what I came up with. I designed, pencilled, inked and did the color design for CLUCKPHREY and MOOPHREY. The computer colors were done by Jeff Victor. Jeff is a friend and talented illustrator who occasionally helps me with assignments. Be sure to check out Jeff's blog by clicking here! Click on the CLUCKPHREY and MOOPHREY images to enlarge. A big "thank you" to Mark Oliver at Mark Oliver Inc. and to Gary Torres at Food for Life for the work! Contact me at powsley@flash.net . Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
I used to do a lot of lettering for comic books. Between the years of 1988 to about 1997, I hand-lettered comic books for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, First Comics and Disney Adventures magazine comic stories. I was on-staff at Malibu Comics as a Letterer from 1993 to 1996. In 1994, I was asked if I'd like to letter a SPUMCO COMIC BOOK story for John K. Being a fan of SPUMCO and John K., I naturally agreed. Over the next couple of years, I lettered about five SPUMCO COMIC BOOK stories for John. I'm posting two pages from two different stories that I hand-lettered. I believe the GEORGE LIQUOR fishing story was written by John K., pencilled by Jim Smith and inked by Shane Glines. The GEORGE LIQUOR / JIMMY THE IDIOT BOY barber story was written by John K., pencilled by Mike Fontanelli and inked by Shane Glines. It was such great fun to work on these comic stories! If you don't already own the four issues of SPUMCO COMIC BOOK, perhaps you can find them on Ebay. They are well-worth having! Great cartoon comic fun! Click on each page to enlarge.
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