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The expansion into syndication will broaden Counterpoint’s mission

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James Edgar Skye's dystopian fiction site.Jacob Gilbert's 'The Land of Whatever' blog.Eric Smith's observations on life, music, poetry and the heartland Crimson Stone's 'The Cultural Superheroine' blog.Crimson Stone's 'Superhero Rundown' YouTube channel.Alexis Ryder's 'Stories I've Never Told…'.Other friends of mine whose blogs you should read Wunsapana Farm, a beautiful place with peaceful llamas.The Pine Hills Review literary magazine.Roger Green's 'Rambling With Roger' blog.Jerry Papandrea's 'DerryX' video channel.

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Local friends of mine whose blogs you should read Paul's Church of Albany blog, 'Grain, Oncne Scattered.'

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How the heck they found a way to shoehorn every single property, even the obscure ones like Bringing Up Father, The Katzenjammer Kids and The Little King, takes a lot of gumption.

#Cyndicate casrtoons series

Let me introduce you to the 60-minute film Popeye and the Man Who Hated Laughter, which aired in 1972 as part of a Saturday morning anthology series called the Saturday Superstar Movie. Oh yeah, one more cartoon, and although it’s not from the 1960’s, it was another attempt by King Features Syndicate to craft an animated story that featured their properties. Heck, it’s not like Beetle Bailey cartoons encouraged me to enlist in the Army, or to laze out in the Ozarks like Snuffy Smith, but hey, your mileage may vary. Well, maybe I was just a kid, I wouldn’t know any better. Just seeing some of the limited animation, the reliance on similar voice actors, and even the increase in violence (Ignatz keeps launching bricks at Krazy Kat as a major plot point) makes me wonder how I ever understood or enjoyed the original viewings. There’s a bit of a weirdness in watching these shows in 2020, after remembering seeing them as a kid – well, at least the Popeye cartoons, which ran in a block on WTEN with old Three Stooges episodes. Or you could stitch together an anthology of various six-minute cartoons, along with some theatrical cartoons (heck, the kids won’t notice the difference) and you’ve got a nice children’s afternoon television block.

As for quality … um … well … er …īut if your local television station had a congenial host of a children’s show, that host could intro these cartoons inbetween whatever else was going on with the broadcast. I mean, the episodes were cheap and plentiful, and if you needed to stick a six-minute cartoon into the schedule, well, you had plenty available. You can definitely see the differences in the animation styles just by the examples shown below.įor example, here”s a Popeye called “Barbecue for Two,” as directed by animator Jack Kinney. Several companies produced the shorts, including Larry Harmon Productions (the company that owned Bozo the Clown) and Czech animation director Gene Deitch. Although the recognizable voices of Jack Mercer, Mae Questal and Jackson Beck returned to the series, the animination was extremely limited, and musical cues were recycled ad nauseum.

The 1960’s Popeye cartoons were made on the cheap. The character was part of the King Features Syndicate of newspaper cartoon characters, and when new Popeye the Sailor cartoons were commissioned in the early 1960’s, King Features saw an opportunity to offer an animated outlet to some of its other newspaper properties.īut first, the Popeye the Sailor cartoons. From the mid-1930’s to the late 1950’s, Paramount Studios, through first its Fleischer Studios and later Famous Studios companies, produced hundreds of animated episodes of Popeye the Sailor.