Bella does Comics #18: ATOM ANT
I have a sweet spot for the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Nostalgia based for sure. The toons weren’t that good or original. The animation defines ‘limited’. The characters were derivative at best. Yogi Bear. Huckleberry Hound. Quick Draw McGraw. Corny. Yet still very funny in their own way. Maybe not ‘their own way’; they stole liberally from Disney and Warner Bros. But it had its charm. It was…
Bella does Comics #17 – THE MUPPETS
I really want to like the muppet on ABC. I watch that show by twos and threes every few weeks on Hulu so I can take advantage of that commercial free benefit I pay $12 a month for. I sit there and man, I am ready to laugh. Kermit bounces up to the Kraft Services table in the opening to kick-start each episode and I am ready to relive those glorious days of old. I remember 1976 when The Muppet…
Bella does Comics #16 – Cartoon Crushes
My daughter Olivia – my co-creator on Heaven Sent – grew up loving The Goofy Movie. As a baby and toddler she watched The Lion King on a loop but when she found The Goofy Movie, that was it. She liked Simba. She fell in love with Max. Max, son of Goofy, was Olivia’s first crush. To hear her tell it now as a 22-year-old Air Force airman, she remembers falling for his look and he was funny. He must…
Bella does Comics #15 – The FLINTSTONES
Before Adult Swim, before Cartoon Network, before Boomerang, before Toonami, Disney Afternoons and all that what-not; before The Simpsons, there was The Flintstones. The show debuted on prime time television (probably before that term was created, too) September 30, 1960 and changed the landscape of cartoons and situation comedies forever. The simplistic art style made the adult contemporary…
