The Best Cartoon For The Halloween Season

 

Any Tex Avery cartoon made at MGM will instantly make my day better. Tex Avery was a legend at creating gag heavy cartoons and all of them were awesome including this cartoon that fits perfectly with Halloween.

Who Killed Who is an absolute masterpiece. It's the most creative and unique out of all of his cartoons because it has some live actions bits. 

That's the case in the beginning of the short where a live action host is talking to us about who killed, well, who.

What makes this perfect for the halloween season is that the dark backgrounds are so massive like with the mansion and crooked trees.

And right away, this cartoon is already a laughing stock. This gag is too good.

We get to see some amazing expressions with the main character as he is reading. He looks frightened.

And then, we get introduced to the cop who has a solid design and fresh introduction.

Great model sheet too.

Just as in, the dog in the robe was just shot, but pretty much faked the entire thing when he wanted to take a picture. 

Make it worth more funny Tex Avery gags that never stop making me laugh.

At the end of the cartoon, the cop finally reveals who is the killer and it was in fact the opening host. This was a really funny ending and great editing for a cartoon made 8 decades ago.

Some people say the best halloween cartoon to watch is one of the B&W cartoons like The Skeleton Dance and The Mad Doctor, and some people like the stop motion movies the best.

To me, the best halloween cartoon I would recommend you watching that doesn't give the credit it deserves is this cartoon. Who Killed Who. It's that haunted. 

That and also

Bye Bye Bluebeard (1949)

Scaredy Cat (1948)

Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

Lonesome Ghosts (1937)

Halloween is in less than 10 days as of writing this so I can wait myself. 

Have a good few days until it's get spooky and dark and yeah,

Bye-a 🎃 

I Love Curious George

 

I love this monkey. He's one of my childhood favorites. Nowadays I loved him the more. The aesthetic and cuteness of it is what makes Curious George fun. 

Curious George has had so many books over the years and all of them are good to read. The drawings say it all. 

It's been a huge impact, it got itself a cartoon when I was almost born. It's cute and I like the designs of the characters. 

The yellow scenery is obviously the most memorable part of the Curious George books, at least in my tastes. 

Yellow is a really underrated color nowadays. It's one of my favorite colors. It represents happiness, the bright side of life and has a warm aesthetic within itself.

I did art of the yellow backgrounds with my characters. 

It's all thanks to Margaret and H.A Rey. You both are legends. 

I have a few amazing and talented illustrators throughout my childhood I wanted to mention.

P.D Eastman

Well known for making Go Dog Go! and Are You My Mother? The designs are also fantastic.

Mercer Mayer

Well known for making the little critter books I was obsessed with as a kid.

Norman Bridwell

Well known for making Clifford The Big Red Dog, I loved this dog as a kid and remembered getting these books at the library.

Mo Willems

Made characters like The Piegon and Elephant And Piggie. He's got alot of sense of humor.

It's been almost 2 months since I first published a post on this blog and so far I've been loving writing on what my interests are. I seen a little bit of people are checking out my posts and I think that's awesome. 👍 

Saturday Evening Post - The Finest Of Magazines

Here's a really fun interest of mine. The Saturday Evening Post covers. 

These were fantastic. I love almost every illustration. It's got extreme amount of detail, and it can have extremely good amount of vibrant and pleasing colors at times. The fact that these were made literally a century ago is just hard to imagine. 

They can be beautiful

And can also be really funny.

The illustrations at the start of the first few years were good but kinda basic. It relied on using limited colors and the expressions were not always fun to look at. 

Go further 15-20 years later, the illustrations were massive and mind-blown at their time. This was fresh back in 1919.

Most of these were drawn by legend, Norman Rockwell. He makes alot of great art and I would highly recommend looking at his work. 

Besides his work with the Saturday Evening Post, he also worked on other magazines. This one particular is gorgeous! 

By far my favorite type of covers the Saturday Evening Post publishes are the ones featuring a house in a neighborhood. These were mostly made in the late 40s to 50s and by then the covers looked alot better than ever. I love these!

This one too!

The last cover of the Saturday Evening Post was in February of 1969. This is what it looks like. I can see it gotten through a downfall, but to me at least it has ton of appeal. It looks good.

I have a Saturday Evening Post book which has all of the covers. I got it on my birthday this year and I love it so much. This book will be forever a treasure.

It's good to have different interests. You may think I'm a classic animation lover 24/7, but sometimes I'm not. I love other stuff and magazines like this are a huge example. 

I'm Getting It.

 

I'm getting the Preston Blair Animation Book for Christmas. I can't wait. I'm going to have the best christmas ever. 

First of all I've been loving researching on how to animate like how classic animation used to do it and I still think it's useful for modern animators to this day.

You call tell I'm beginning to be a pro and I'm using a trustworthy pencil to draw. Using pen is kinda a mistake.

The future is looking bright, I just have to keep drawing some good things for y'all because enjoyment is the best part in life.

Droopy's front face I did all on my own. It looks exactly like how he looks in front of his view.

I actually love the designs alot on these pages. The egg shapes on the left are useful. 

I would definitely say the preston blair book made me draw more lively. 

This was before I knew anything about classic animation and model sheets.

Im definitely involved using screens most of the time but when I get older I'll start to get more active oriented and have the book I have in the future. I mostly looked at interesting websites in the first place to discover the guys name and sketches.

Thanks to Digicel, I've been starting animating a few files already and it's a really simple and fun app. Alot of recent legendary animators recommended it like Don Bluth and Eric Goldberg. 

Can't wait to be making content on YouTube like this 🙌 

And not this. 👎

Animation like this is timeless and I would say it's still used and loved by most animators today including myself. I know there are different styles of art and I think that's awesome. I'm willing to go through a approach to homage classic animation, slapstick and classic actors for all audiences.