On 7/7/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----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. ;^)
Given how his last few films have done, think of Cool World", does he 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. They are quite scary people. Fanaticism doesn't apply - its too mild a term. These people don't wear plastic vulcan ears, they have plastic surgery to change their ears to loko like the EQ elves. > > 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. I thought I was one of the few people who knew what and who Captain Stern was - I don't know Wendy did it but 4 years ago she got me the complete series for my birthday. larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:5:163474 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
