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Favorite Character? - 12/7/2008 8:13:40 PM   
krisjean


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Status: offline 		Be it cartoon, comics, anime, or advertising - who is your favorite character?

Why are you drawn to them? their show? thier printed stuffies? their strip? their commercials ect.....

When I was a kid Scooby-Do was my favorite - I went to daycare and when we got in from school everyday, before we would eat snacks we would watch it. There really were not alot of them produced (hour long ones) so many times we watched repeats - it never bothered me. I soooooooooo need to get the orginals on DVD.

I loved the interaction between them all, and the way Scooby & Shaggy would always screw things up - and yet still help catch the bad guy in the end. It was a great cast with the jock, beauty, nerd, slacker, comic relief.

Looking back - I think I liked the predictablilty of the show over all.

more often than not:

Velma lost her glasses.
Daphine falls into something or kidnapped.
Scooby & Shaggy bindge & screw up the trap.
Fred always thinks he knows what is going on.
The mystery was always solved.

As for Scooby himself, he was bigger than life - not afraid to laugh, loveable, a clutz, and a chicken.

For the show i liked how it was dark and mysterious. It was different than the other shows I remember. It had a great mix of music (wish I had some of those old songs lol)

My favorite villian/monster was the "alien" who left glowing footprints and had a skull face with that maniacle laugh. His space ship looked like a badmittion bird lol.

I'm so glad that as an adult they came out with the new Scooby Do cartoons, and new generations have fallen in love with him again. They did a nice job of updating the characters without selling them out.

Now as an adult I so enjoy Sponge Bob Square Pants. And you know what if you look at them Scooby and Sponge Bobs characters really arn't that different. Only Scooby was more "kewl" and Sponge Bob is more on the "nerdy" side.

I really enjoy how that show is drawn/illustrated as well - some of the backgrounds are reminecent of the cartoons of the 70's

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/7/2008 9:51:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I loved Scooby, too!  There were some I liked adn watched a million times.  choices were pretty slim back then, not like now.  God, trying to remember...even as a kid, I didn't have too many "favorites"...lol.  I remember being student of the week or something in the first grade...one of the questions was favorite TV show.  I couldn't decide so I chose an old school, My Favorite Martian. I didn't even like it that much..lol. 

/end tangent

I also liked Flinstones, Road Runner....Sesame Street, although I wasn't wild about the newer generation muppets....I know I am forgetting stuff here...thinking....

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/7/2008 9:56:20 PM   
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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/7/2008 10:02:24 PM   
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Status: online 		I had a couple of favorites way back then but I doubt anyone ever heard of them. Supercar? Fireball XL5? Done with puppets. And I was a big fan of Scott MacLoud, Space Angel. Oh, another was the first Anime series brought to America, Astroboy. It took 30 years for the next ones to arrive.

There were local cartoon shows also. Beenie and Cesil?

Ok, I liked The Road Runner too.

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/7/2008 10:12:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		oh darn...I was going to go with Beanie and Cecil....but I liked Rocky and Bullmoose pretty much too...actually my absolutel fave cartoons were the old ones from the thirty and forties...they were always on Saturday mornings...cartoon day!  They had so many great ones from that time...

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 6:04:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love anything by Sid and Marty Krofft
  • Lidsville (1971)
  • The Bugaloos (1970)
  • Pufnstuf (1970)
  • H.R. Pufnstuf (1969)
  • Land of the Lost (1974)
I also love anything from Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Rat fink and that group.
Mad magazine also made it's way into my brain, as well as "Little Monsters"

I love the whole weird monster stuff that was so big for all us babies of the 60/70's

I don't actually paint them ,but I do think they affected the way I paint/draw.



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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 11:05:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very kewl ev1 - the reason I ask is because in this sort of genre character development is important. Specially if you are doing serials or series. Same characters in different situations ect.

For say like comic book art - alot of character development and backstories are written out before art ever reaches paper.

For fantasy art there is also alot of thought into who the character is, what makes them tick, why are they who they are ect.

Some artists just create and there is nothing wrong with that - but truly well thought out enduring characters - last.

Alot of this holds true to other forms of art like say a portrait. You want to know what makes someone who they are. See inside their soul with a few strokes. But with comic book or fantasy art it's amplified to the extreme degree.

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 11:07:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		For me I was drawn to Scooby and Sponge bob because they reminded me of myself.

Why were you drawn to those characters?

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 11:47:45 AM   
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ORIGINAL: swirlygirl

I liked gumby a lot (does that count?)


I LOVED Gumby too (recently came across my Gumby Fan Club membership card, signed by Art Clokey!), I had some tapes for my sons, including the Gumby Movie in which they tried to make Gumby "cool", lol.

Other than that there's not much animation from my childhood (that I can think of offhand) which doesn't depress the hell out of me (although I did watch it when I was a kid). My husband has a theory that they hated kids back then (late 60's, 70's) everything for kids was so miserable & depressing, animation was just awful (especially Hanna Barbera stuff although I did like Space Ghost). I would so love to be a kid now, I just love Sponge Bob. I also loved the Power Puff Girls a few years ago. My favorite animation now is definitely the Miyazaki films - especially Spirited Away, Totoro & Howl's Moving Castle. I never cared for Disney at all (except for the REALLY, REALLY early stuff).

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 11:51:14 AM   
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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 1:25:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, for me it's Spider-Man. I painted a mural of him on my bedroom wall, like he was swinging across the ceiling. My mother was not amused.

It's the character. Peter Parker, even after decades, speaks to young people. He does not have a great life, it's full of stress and responsibility. He is always torn between what he must do and what he wants to do, and the choices bear real consequences. The comic run from the mid-70's to the late 80's was wonderfully real. I actually like Peter Parker more than Spider-Man--Peter has so much to carry, and when he can't, you feel for him, and when he manages, or even wins--you cheer for him. I've found that a lot of those stories stay with me now, especially when he's down to his last dollar and cold, but Aunt May needs it more than he does...

And people say comic books are garbage written for children! ;)

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 6:08:20 PM   
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Status: online 		I heard an interview of Stan Lee once and he said that they set out to create a new kind of super hero, a teenager with angst and the idea that being super doesn't solve the problems of being a person and they did that in spades. I had stacks of Spiderman comics.

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/8/2008 8:52:46 PM   
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Status: online 		I loved the classic old Little LuLu and Little Audrey cartoons because they were spunky girls who didn't follow the rules and caused trouble, but it always turned out ok. I can't recall what program they were presented on though.  I read their comic books too unless my mom caught me reading 'brain rot'.

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 12:01:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am so old school. Bugs Bunny was my childhood hero AND imaginary friend. He was so real to me, much to my parents disdain and embarassment. Mom was convinced I was being visited by a pooka, like Jimmy Stewart's Harvey. I would know nothing of sarcasm, classical music or cross dressing if not for Bugs.

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 12:09:06 AM   
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quote:

but I liked Rocky and Bullmoose pretty much too
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ORIGINAL: labeana

Darn, I forgot about them. Loved Fractured Fairy Tales and Aesop & son. Wouldn't it be fun to do a fractured fairy tale challenge?........Just a thought.

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 6:12:30 AM   
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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 8:24:56 AM   
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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 8:26:50 AM   
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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 8:59:56 AM   
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as I sit here in my scooby doo "78 Old Skool" sweatshirt (Jealous kris? LOL)

Cartoons and Comics and other such characters were so important to us all. I think it gave any of us an idea of fantasy and adventure... and ADDED a lot to creative daily visions.

Like Kris, I was a freak for scooby doo... so much so my mother still buys me things like sweatshirts, so she can remind me that "as a child you..." blah blah blah. You get the point!

I guess there aren't too many anime fans, but I do remember my high school and early college years being so much into Sailor Moon! I still have fond thoughts of that show. I used to get together with the girls and we'd watch it every afternoon, and on 'adult swim' on Cartoon Network! Just something about the different views on fantasy it hit on.

Oh well!

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RE: Favorite Character? - 12/9/2008 10:42:06 AM   
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