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Recently, I was looking through the 1965 Whitman Tell-a-Tale book, MAGILLA GORILLA TAKES A BANANA HOLIDAY. I thought it would be fun to re-create one of the book's MAGILLA color painted images as a black and white piece. This 8 1/2" x 11" MAGILLA GORILLA original art is brush, pen and ink on duralene with white opaque watercolor...and available to own! Click on MAGILLA for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! - Patrick Owsley
Here's a few pages from recent issues of ARCHIE & FRIENDS that I've had the pleasure of lettering. Thanks to Mike Pellerito at Archie Comics for the work! Click on each image for a larger view!
I was recently commissioned by MARCELO GUERRO of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to do some work for him. Marcelo is a terrific caricaturist, and a fan of Hanna-Barbera's THE IMPOSSIBLES. He sent me the above photos of his custom-made figure sets of THE IMPOSSIBLES...as the rock group, and as super heroes! I'd love to see figures like this produced here in the States by a licensee and Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Be sure to check out Marcelo's caricature website by clicking here. As always, click on the photos for a larger view!
Click on my CARTOON ART PORTFOLIO link in my LINKS section to see the lettering samples that I just posted. Most of my lettering samples are pages from SPUMCO COMIC BOOK. Some of the pages were never published, including the two JIMMY THE IDIOT BOY pages I've posted above. It was great working on SPUMCO COMIC BOOK with John Kricfalusi, Jim Smith, Vincent Waller, Mike Fontanelli, Shane Glines and other Spumco Big Shot Hollywood Cartoonists! I would love to see John K's SPUMCO COMIC BOOK published again. Click on each image for a larger view!
I was talking today with someone about a project that could involve HANNA-BARBERA's THE IMPOSSIBLES. I'll be able to elaborate on the project at a later date. So I thought I'd post this art from my HANNA-BARBERA art file. Here's FLUID MAN, COIL MAN and MULTI MAN! Each piece was created using colored pencils with brush & ink on canary yellow textured paper. Click on each image for a larger view! RALLY-HO!
Here's those HANNA-BARBERA TV cartoon meeces, PIXIE AND DIXIE, along with MR. JINKS. The top image is from the PIXIE AND DIXIE and MR. JINKS style guide that I helped create at Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The characters were penciled by talented HANNA-BARBERA artist, Mark Christiansen, then inked by me with a brush. The coloring was done by one of the designers at WBCP. I'm also showing a scan of PIXIE AND DIXIE and MR. JINKS No. 1, published by Gold Key in 1962. Click on each image for a larger view!
My good friend, RANKIN/BASS Historian and Biographer RICK GOLDSCHMIDT, has a new CD of his music coming out soon. The title of the CD is RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS - UNPLUGGED. You can see the CD's cover on Rick's RANKIN/BASS blog by clicking HERE. I did the above MISER BROS. PRESS logo for Rick a few years ago. It's the publishing imprint for Rick's RANKIN/BASS books, THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS and THE MAKING OF RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. I also did a revision of the logo for Rick's CD projects...MISER BROS. RECORDS. I used the early RANKIN/BASS TV character, PINOCCHIO, in both logos. I'll have to get a scan of the MISER BROS. RECORDS logo and post it here soon. Rick's previous CDs, RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS and RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS AGAIN, are available directly from Rick...e-mail him at rickgoldsc@aol.com. Be sure to bookmark his RANKIN/BASS blog and visit often! Rick also has his RANKIN/BASS books and many rare archival RANKIN/BASS CDs and DVDs currently available. You can e-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Today while working, I had on the DVD set of the classic 1962 Hanna-Barbera cartoon TV series, TOP CAT. I love the series, so I thought I'd post some TOP CAT art. Here's the leader of the gang, TOP CAT with BENNY THE BALL, CHOO-CHOO, SPOOK, BRAIN, FANCY FANCY and OFFICER DIBBLE. The top image of TOP CAT (based on a TOP CAT style guide pose) and the bottom image of OFFICER DIBBLE were done by me. Both pieces are markers, colored pencil, brush & ink on coquille board. I inked the character art of CHOO-CHOO, SPOOK, BRAIN and FANCY FANCY for the TOP CAT style guide for Warner Bros. Consumer Products. I believe these were penciled by Mark Christiansen, then colored by one of the WBCP designers. Click on each image for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
GO CUBS!
Here's a few examples of the sensational caricature work of BOB BENTOVOJA. BENTOVOJA is best known for his fantastic 1960s TV and film caricature art for regional TV guides and television networks. I'm posting his stylistic works of TV's BATMAN (ADAM WEST and BURT WARD), THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT (DON KNOTTS) and TV's THE REAL McCOYS (WALTER BRENNAN, DICK KRENNA and TONY MARTINEZ).
I've got some really cool things up for auction right now on eBay, including these BATMAN & ROBIN Soaky toys and these statues of THE BEATLES. I've also got a few pieces of original cartoon art of THE BEATLES. Click on my eBay auction link in my LINKS section to see my auctions. Also, check out my previous post for other cool things to own! Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley UPDATE 3-27-08 -- THE BATMAN & ROBIN SOAKY TOYS and THE BEATLES statues have been sold. Take a look at my other eBay auctions!
Hope everyone is having a safe and happy St. Patrick's Day! In honor of the day...here's a color sketch of the LEPRACHAUN from the great MGM / Hanna-Barbera DROOPY cartoon, DROOPY LEPRACHAUN.
Here's an 8" x 10" color sketch that I did last week for UNDERDOG fan, Roxanne Flynn of Scranton, PA. Roxanne is the biggest UNDERDOG fan that I know of. To say that Roxanne loves UNDERDOG is an understatement! Glad you liked the sketch, Roxanne!Email me at powsley@flash.net if you'd like for me to create a piece of art for you. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Yesterday, Brian Mariotti sent me this image of Hanna-Barbera's FRANKENSTEIN JR.. Brian is the President of the great toy company, Funko. Funko has produced a lot of great bobble heads and vinyl figures over the last few years of some of our favorite cartoon pals. This is the design for the new 12" FRANKENSTEIN JR. coin bank. Brian tells me that the bank features moveable arms and FRANKIE's head is removed to retreive coins. I'm not sure when the 12" FRANKENSTEIN JR. coin bank will be available. Brian says the bank is "still in the works." I really hope to create the FRANKENSTEIN JR. character art for the bank's packaging. It's great to see this character being merchandised! Looks like another sensational Hanna-Barbera product from Brian Mariotti and Funko! Click on the image for a larger view.
I was just watching a compilation VHS tape of Hanna-Barbera's PRECIOUS PUPP cartoons. Along with THE HILLBILLY BEARS, PRECIOUS PUPP was one of the segments shown during THE ATOM ANT SHOW in 1965. Hanna-Barbera was still producing great cartoons at this time, such as SECRET SQUIRREL, WINSOME WITCH and SQUIDDLY DIDDLY. I'll do future postings featuring those characters soon. I especially love the character designs seen in these shows. The top image here is a color sketch of PRECIOUS PUPP that I did this morning. The middle image, featuring GRANNY SWEET and PRECIOUS PUPP, is scanned from a book of Hanna-Barbera model sheets. The bottom image is a scan of the first panel from the PRECIOUS PUPP story that appears in the 1965 Gold Key ATOM ANT comic book. Click on each image for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Here's Hanna-Barbera's super-spy, SECRET SQUIRREL. The color piece is something I did for fun. The black and white art, which features SECRET's sidekick MOROCCO MOLE, is my brush inking over Mike Fontanelli's pencils. Mike and I created the art as supplements to the SECRET SQUIRREL style guide at Warner Bros. Consumer Products.
Recently, I was looking through the 1965 Whitman Tell-a-Tale book, MAGILLA GORILLA TAKES A BANANA HOLIDAY. I thought it would be fun to re-create one of the book's MAGILLA color painted images as a black and white piece. This 8 1/2" x 11" MAGILLA GORILLA original art is brush, pen and ink on duralene with white opaque watercolor...and available to own! Click on MAGILLA for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! - Patrick Owsley
Here's a few pages from recent issues of ARCHIE & FRIENDS that I've had the pleasure of lettering. Thanks to Mike Pellerito at Archie Comics for the work! Click on each image for a larger view!
I was recently commissioned by MARCELO GUERRO of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to do some work for him. Marcelo is a terrific caricaturist, and a fan of Hanna-Barbera's THE IMPOSSIBLES. He sent me the above photos of his custom-made figure sets of THE IMPOSSIBLES...as the rock group, and as super heroes! I'd love to see figures like this produced here in the States by a licensee and Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Be sure to check out Marcelo's caricature website by clicking here. As always, click on the photos for a larger view!
Click on my CARTOON ART PORTFOLIO link in my LINKS section to see the lettering samples that I just posted. Most of my lettering samples are pages from SPUMCO COMIC BOOK. Some of the pages were never published, including the two JIMMY THE IDIOT BOY pages I've posted above. It was great working on SPUMCO COMIC BOOK with John Kricfalusi, Jim Smith, Vincent Waller, Mike Fontanelli, Shane Glines and other Spumco Big Shot Hollywood Cartoonists! I would love to see John K's SPUMCO COMIC BOOK published again. Click on each image for a larger view!
I was talking today with someone about a project that could involve HANNA-BARBERA's THE IMPOSSIBLES. I'll be able to elaborate on the project at a later date. So I thought I'd post this art from my HANNA-BARBERA art file. Here's FLUID MAN, COIL MAN and MULTI MAN! Each piece was created using colored pencils with brush & ink on canary yellow textured paper. Click on each image for a larger view! RALLY-HO!
I've posted about this before, but I want to remind everyone that I still have a few sets of the HANNA-BARBERA classic cartoon title card set available. They're a really nice 14-piece set of bright color copies featuring some of the all-time great classic HANNA-BARBERA TV cartoon friends! Each title card measures 8 1/2" x 11" and look sensational when displayed. Also...I have the above original art featuring all of the HANNA-BARBERA "animal" characters from 1958 through 1965. The art measures 18" x 24" and is brush, pen & ink with white opaque watercolor on bristol board. The classic HANNA-BARBERA logo is hand-lettered. I could even re-create the art for you at 16" x 20", if you wish. Be sure to click on each image for a larger view! Most of the art you see posted on my blog is available to own. I can also create something for you. Let me know what you're interested in. Check out more of my art in my portfolio by clicking on its link in my LINKS section. E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Here's those HANNA-BARBERA TV cartoon meeces, PIXIE AND DIXIE, along with MR. JINKS. The top image is from the PIXIE AND DIXIE and MR. JINKS style guide that I helped create at Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The characters were penciled by talented HANNA-BARBERA artist, Mark Christiansen, then inked by me with a brush. The coloring was done by one of the designers at WBCP. I'm also showing a scan of PIXIE AND DIXIE and MR. JINKS No. 1, published by Gold Key in 1962. Click on each image for a larger view!
My good friend, RANKIN/BASS Historian and Biographer RICK GOLDSCHMIDT, has a new CD of his music coming out soon. The title of the CD is RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS - UNPLUGGED. You can see the CD's cover on Rick's RANKIN/BASS blog by clicking HERE. I did the above MISER BROS. PRESS logo for Rick a few years ago. It's the publishing imprint for Rick's RANKIN/BASS books, THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS and THE MAKING OF RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. I also did a revision of the logo for Rick's CD projects...MISER BROS. RECORDS. I used the early RANKIN/BASS TV character, PINOCCHIO, in both logos. I'll have to get a scan of the MISER BROS. RECORDS logo and post it here soon. Rick's previous CDs, RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS and RICK GOLDSCHMIDT SINGS AGAIN, are available directly from Rick...e-mail him at rickgoldsc@aol.com. Be sure to bookmark his RANKIN/BASS blog and visit often! Rick also has his RANKIN/BASS books and many rare archival RANKIN/BASS CDs and DVDs currently available. You can e-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
Today while working, I had on the DVD set of the classic 1962 Hanna-Barbera cartoon TV series, TOP CAT. I love the series, so I thought I'd post some TOP CAT art. Here's the leader of the gang, TOP CAT with BENNY THE BALL, CHOO-CHOO, SPOOK, BRAIN, FANCY FANCY and OFFICER DIBBLE. The top image of TOP CAT (based on a TOP CAT style guide pose) and the bottom image of OFFICER DIBBLE were done by me. Both pieces are markers, colored pencil, brush & ink on coquille board. I inked the character art of CHOO-CHOO, SPOOK, BRAIN and FANCY FANCY for the TOP CAT style guide for Warner Bros. Consumer Products. I believe these were penciled by Mark Christiansen, then colored by one of the WBCP designers. Click on each image for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
I'm really looking forward to the new WOODY WOODPECKER & FRIENDS CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION VOL. 2 DVD set! The 3-disc set will be released on April 15. Speaking of WOODY WOODPECKER...the top photo that I've posted is a really cool, classic cartoon-style WOODY WOODPECKER figural photo frame. You can own this beautiful cartoon product, as I currently have the photo frame on eBay! Just click on my eBay auction link in my LINKS section. I've also posted a few very cool cartoon images of WOODY WOODPECKER and his pals! Click on each image for a larger view!
Here's a few examples of the sensational caricature work of BOB BENTOVOJA. BENTOVOJA is best known for his fantastic 1960s TV and film caricature art for regional TV guides and television networks. I'm posting his stylistic works of TV's BATMAN (ADAM WEST and BURT WARD), THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT (DON KNOTTS) and TV's THE REAL McCOYS (WALTER BRENNAN, DICK KRENNA and TONY MARTINEZ). 
I've got some really cool things up for auction right now on eBay, including these BATMAN & ROBIN Soaky toys and these statues of THE BEATLES. I've also got a few pieces of original cartoon art of THE BEATLES. Click on my eBay auction link in my LINKS section to see my auctions. Also, check out my previous post for other cool things to own! Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley 
Just reminding everyone that the above items are available to own! The top image is an 18" x 24" original art piece of many classic HANNA-BARBERA "animal" characters from 1958 - 1965. All of the great H-B characters are well represented here! It's brush, pen & ink with white opaque watercolor on bristol board. The classic HANNA-BARBERA logo is hand-lettered.
Hope everyone is having a safe and happy St. Patrick's Day! In honor of the day...here's a color sketch of the LEPRACHAUN from the great MGM / Hanna-Barbera DROOPY cartoon, DROOPY LEPRACHAUN.
Here's an 8" x 10" color sketch that I did last week for UNDERDOG fan, Roxanne Flynn of Scranton, PA. Roxanne is the biggest UNDERDOG fan that I know of. To say that Roxanne loves UNDERDOG is an understatement! Glad you liked the sketch, Roxanne!
Yesterday, Brian Mariotti sent me this image of Hanna-Barbera's FRANKENSTEIN JR.. Brian is the President of the great toy company, Funko. Funko has produced a lot of great bobble heads and vinyl figures over the last few years of some of our favorite cartoon pals. This is the design for the new 12" FRANKENSTEIN JR. coin bank. Brian tells me that the bank features moveable arms and FRANKIE's head is removed to retreive coins. I'm not sure when the 12" FRANKENSTEIN JR. coin bank will be available. Brian says the bank is "still in the works." I really hope to create the FRANKENSTEIN JR. character art for the bank's packaging. It's great to see this character being merchandised! Looks like another sensational Hanna-Barbera product from Brian Mariotti and Funko! Click on the image for a larger view.
I was just watching a compilation VHS tape of Hanna-Barbera's PRECIOUS PUPP cartoons. Along with THE HILLBILLY BEARS, PRECIOUS PUPP was one of the segments shown during THE ATOM ANT SHOW in 1965. Hanna-Barbera was still producing great cartoons at this time, such as SECRET SQUIRREL, WINSOME WITCH and SQUIDDLY DIDDLY. I'll do future postings featuring those characters soon. I especially love the character designs seen in these shows. The top image here is a color sketch of PRECIOUS PUPP that I did this morning. The middle image, featuring GRANNY SWEET and PRECIOUS PUPP, is scanned from a book of Hanna-Barbera model sheets. The bottom image is a scan of the first panel from the PRECIOUS PUPP story that appears in the 1965 Gold Key ATOM ANT comic book. Click on each image for a larger view! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net. Thanks! -- Patrick Owsley
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