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Get offline for a few hours, and you learn that the other half of Rankin-Bass, Jules Bass, has died. A revolutionary creator and producer of holiday institutions as well as someone who helped build the Japanese animation industry outside of Japan for decades. RIP, Mr. Bass.
Today also marks the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Calamity Jane, a brilliant French animated western drama/action series co-produced by Warner Bros that was shamefully dropped by Kids' WB after three weeks.
Here's a taste:
https://t.co/h0KrKrz2by
25 years ago today, September 13, 1997, we all experienced five hours of summer once a week courtesy of Disney's One Saturday Morning block on ABC, which premiered that day. Recess and Pepper Ann made their debut alongside the second season of Disney's Doug.
Seriously, DC Mech is a pretty solid, interesting, and promising concept that takes the familiar DC heroes and gives them a mecha edge.
If DC's owner was a competently-run company, they'd be prepping this for an animated series.
Hey, remember when Cartoon Network used to air cartoons like this?
I tell ya, girls weren't drawn to these shows at all since they were so hypermasculine. /s
Cartoon Network really hasn't done anything dedicated to the historical side of animation since their podcast miniseries, Drawn: The Story of Animation.
I wouldn't mind them going back into that again.
The action-animation industry was largely born because of DC Comics. Between the Fleischer Superman shorts, the Filmation shows, and DC artist Alex Toth's Hanna-Barbera work, its legacy and influence have been widespread, and SO much can be traced back to the publisher.
Putting aside MMPR, Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, and, oh man, so many others (including a bunch of reruns of true bangers), I'd give a nod to some Fox Kids themes that rarely get on this list: https://t.co/ft84vflPOl
Superman with Captain America's shield and Thor's hammer. Very few could handle both.
Even fewer from other dimensions.
Thank you, George Perez.