> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:44 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: The Ents are going to war.
> 
> Agreed, but he was never able to get the funding to continue. Mind you
> given what I've heard from many artists, like the Pini's of ElfQuest,
> they would not work with Bakshi if he were the last animator alive.
> Apparently he's very difficult to work with. When Frank Frazetta
> worked with Bakshi on Fire and Ice, the movie was an artistic success
> but it was nearly a disaster in terms of everything else.

Yeah... he's a loon, no doubt.  But he does get results.  ;^)

I only had the privilege of meeting the Pini's once at a show.  The guy in
line ahead of me had a stack of "ElfQuest" collections about 35 high and was
REALLY freaky.  He kept telling me how he drive past Poughkeepsie every day
and said "there's Elfland!!!"  Really rabid.

I just had the coupla of "Beauty and the Beast" graphic novels they did (so
kill me, I liked "Beauty and the Beast" and I'm a big girl).  I saw then
later: we were both in line getting something to eat and we had a nice, but
short conversation about their fanatical fan base.  ;^)

It was that same show (the Ramapo high school show... which attracts, or at
least used to, TONS of artists) that I met Berni Wrightson for the first
time as well.  We had a tense conversation about the "Captain Stern" short
in "Heavy Metal".  He was (I think correct in) thinking that the whole movie
was a pile of stinking crap... but I still liked "Captain Stern".

He did a mini-series with the character sometime later.  I'm still convinced
that "Zap Branigin", despite his clear Kirk influence, also had some Captain
Stern in him.

Wrightson was always a favorite - a guy in high school was pretty close to
him through his mother and would bring unfinished work of his into art
class.  I was sooooo jealous.

He (his name was Django Zaloom) was also the nephew of Paul Zaloom who was
"Beakman" of the incredible kids science show "Beakman's World".

Ah... memories.

Jim Davis





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support 
efficiency by 100%
http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49

Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:163419
Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5
Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5
Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54

Reply via email to