tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post8263858117814473265..comments2024-03-28T16:36:44.544-07:00Comments on Yowp: Quick Draw McGraw — Yippee CoyoteYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-52749000774197224132013-03-16T18:37:16.531-07:002013-03-16T18:37:16.531-07:00The stripped down aspect of Tony Rivera's char...The stripped down aspect of Tony Rivera's character designs is why serious fans of these fun vibrant (low budget and deadlines notwithstanding) cartoons pass Tony Rivera as the worst of the designer pool (eg. Bick, Sommer, Clinton, Benedict et al) i will agree with the serious die heard fans of the cartoons that they are pretty much the ugliest of the entire H-B oeuvre before 1964 or so, in fact Tony Rivera's style pretty much robbed these cartoons of the whatever remaining linkage of whatever was left from the Tex Avery MGM era and even the very last part of the CinemaScope era because his drawing style became the norm for the Wally Gator, Touche Turtle, Lippy and Hardy Har Har bunch for the 1961-1962 release season.<br /><br />In fact the last distinct REALLY good TV show from these exact same guys was The Jetsons (which, incidentally, came at the exact same period as the Wally Gator stuff) , but then again, it was also the first to have Iwao Takamoto be the main designer (he created Astro), alongside Gene Hazelton's splashes on the show (without checking, he was the one who designed Geroge Jetson and other incidental characters drawn consistently in the exact same design style of that character.), but right then, Iwao's stuff was a lot times way better than Rivera's stuff, and any further bad directions the studio later turned astray into is all the fault of Bill and Joe themselves (they sold the studio to Taft Broadcasting in Cincinnati and stupid parent groups and fascinatingly evil execs like Fred Silverman started to take it's toll on the studio immediately, not to mention hideously grubby pencil lines in place of the beautiful pen and ink work echoing the fantastic Winsor McCay, the TRUE REAL founder of the animation style), sorry, but it had to be said, and they suffered for it.<br /><br />And besides even when you have tight deadlines and extremely notorously BAD budgeting from the local stations, it doesn't mean you have to lose in the process...<br /><br />Personally i'd wish Bill and Joe would nuke their bad conservatism habits and take so much wasted potential and turn it into roses, and have a system that would not lead to the bastardized system of today.<br /><br />Hopefully you won't remind the long reply, but i think the Jetsons<br />should have been more detailed and vibrantly colored in 1962 and i think even the animation style and execution should be contemporary with the earlier Colonel Bleep, and obviously the animation at H-B in the late 1950s should have improved A LOT more than it should have been, and as for what we've got beginning in 1964 the animation got WORSE and WORSE, until it finally became bad to the bone to the point where you can tell SOME of it was actually done overseas, gack!.<br /><br />The writing ALSO should have gotten better and less to NO forumla whatsoever, but that's enough of a rant for one day, if H-B was my studio i'd run it exactly the way i WANTED IT, cheers!.<br /><br />Asim.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-89635142008369051662013-03-05T14:48:59.679-08:002013-03-05T14:48:59.679-08:00Then Jerry Lewis/Daws Butler's voice shows up ...Then Jerry Lewis/Daws Butler's voice shows up in one of the guards name Yippie, Yappie, and Yahooey, in the latter's case.<br /><br />SCPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-52361481367871598342013-03-03T12:22:49.587-08:002013-03-03T12:22:49.587-08:00One more time, Dick Lundy, the grimaces king, stri...One more time, Dick Lundy, the grimaces king, strikes again, animating this <i>Quick Draw McGraw</i> episode.<br /><br />rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-38855180422558821772013-03-02T19:34:03.707-08:002013-03-02T19:34:03.707-08:00Just a quibble, but it's disappointing how the...Just a quibble, but it's disappointing how the title card is just a foreshadowing of the opening scene. The 1958-62 title cards were always a highlight for me, as they summed up the basic theme of the upcoming cartoon in a humorous, often graphically creative way. One would expect to see Yippee Coyote in a crazy disguise, or tweaking Quick Draw's nose, or Quick Draw chasing him in anger. Looks like whoever designed the title card was off that week.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-64614110849902349332013-03-02T12:39:37.767-08:002013-03-02T12:39:37.767-08:00Oh, good Mr. Yowp, I couldn’t disagree more on the...Oh, good Mr. Yowp, I couldn’t disagree more on the ending of “Yippee Coyote”! <br /><br />The great thing about it is that, after almost two years of cartoons where Baba laughed and made remarks behind Quick Draw’s back, Quick Draw finally caught him – unequivocally – and decides to dissolve their partnership right then and there! <br /><br />…At least until the reconciliatory action by that great diplomat Yippee Coyote serves to remedy matters. <br /><br />This was a wonderful variation on one aspect of the series’ formula, which is “played-with” to great effect! <br /><br />It’s the kind of thing that can only happen once characters and their patterns are well established. And that’s usually the point at which I like a series best. Unfortunately, that was usually just about the time most animated TV series would conclude… once we reached a point where writers COULD play with an established formula. <br /><br />After “Chopping Spree”, this might actually be my favorite Quick Draw ending, precisely because it turns convention on its ear! <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-84793983255938815502013-03-02T10:26:11.343-08:002013-03-02T10:26:11.343-08:00Whatever folks may think of Yippie Coyote, it didn...Whatever folks may think of Yippie Coyote, it didn't stop him from appearing again in an episode of "Yogi's Treasure Hunt" some years down the line. So not completely forgotten =P<br /><br />Mind you, here's an interesting thing about Yippie; that rope noose round his neck. It seems to add a bit more character (and mystery) to him as a torn ear or a peg-leg would to any other random face. Nice touch on Tony's part.<br /><br />And another useless fact: horses (and burros I assume) don't actually have a clavicle. It's a mystery whether Mike was aware of it or decided it might be something else silly to throw in. Or maybe he just thought 'clavicle' sounded funny.<br />Chris Signorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308489347614565068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-92171477755835101092013-03-02T10:01:07.699-08:002013-03-02T10:01:07.699-08:00"Banjo on their knees" is a reference to..."Banjo on their knees" is a reference to a lyric from "Oh! Susanna".top cat jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248949443799986766noreply@blogger.com