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Balkand is a tale of foursome princes who assay to hear the ways of their ancient society. Their particular end is to take noesis of warfare from pedagogy schools, prepping them to one day run the domain of Ayodhya. The DQ Amusement innovative program is an writing from the large stories of Ramayana, and has proven quite made in Denizen territories on the transnational Cartoon Textile and Pogo. Producers of the periodical fresh agreed to make two new alive flick sequels for the networks, supported on the groundbreaking film which debuted on Pogo finally assemblage.

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There’s a unaged ‘toon in town!

Wood USA is the folk of the propel, and Shane Keats is the dysphemism.

As an environmental cartoon that aims to school and entertain, Wood wants to shake kids to litigate by winning a stopover and conflict for what they conceive in.

Frontiersman Wood, the heroine of this environmental sketch, and Poet Banneker, her best person and brilliant eco-geek sidekick, enquire the whodunit of a stinky darken that’s floating over municipality.

At the rootage of the steer programme, “Cow-a-dunga”, Backwoodsman finds out that her couthy neighborhood industrialist is buying the town’s dairy. She and Playwright (with the supply of the iGadget) then learn that it’s methane (“cow farts”) from the Dummkopf Dairy that has been stinking up the townsfolk.
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Walt Kelly, a former Disney animator and one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th Century, is not one usually associated with the likes of Paramount’s Famous Studios. But did you know Kelly illustrated two comic book stories starring Paramount’s animated characters of the 1940s?

Long before Harvey Comics, or St. John for that matter, had the rights to Paramount’s cartoon menagerie, Western Publishing (Dell Comics) acquired those rights in the mid 40s — and produced comic stories featuring such animated “stars” as Hector the Henpecked Rooster, Herman the Mouse, Blackie Sheep and Cilly Goose. Kelly illustrated two 8-page stories – the first of which I’ve post below (click thumbnails to enlarge each page).

These were done for Animal Comics, the book in which Kelly developed Pogo Possum and are thus worth hundreds of dollars each. My thanks to Mark Kausler for loaning me his copies to scan. Cilly Goose is based on a one-shot Noveltoon cartoon of the same name from 1944. The Famous Studios comics ran from issue #7 through #17 as far as I can tell. This Cilly Goose story, from Animal Comics #15 (June-July 1945), has no relation to the animated film, and I have no idea who might have written it.

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Character designer and story artist David Colman (who is also the author of The Art of Animal Character Design) will be holding a weekend animal drawing workshop on January 30-31st. The LA-area classes take place at the Page Museum and Los Angeles Zoo between 10am-4pm each day. The class description:

Learn anatomy, gesture, and construction. Gain the tools needed to become proficient at the art of animal drawing, especially how to study from life. The class will consist of numerous handouts, accompanied with demonstrations and 1-on-1 instruction. First day is a six-hour course spent studying bones and skeletal structure @ the La Brea Tarpits in which you will learn the basic inner structure of quadrupeds. David will be doing a one hour demo study of one of the skeletons. The second day will be six hours spent @ the LA Zoo in which you will be studying about five different animals throughout the day.

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