Mighty Mouse – Harry-Go-Round

There He is to Save the Day

August 6, 2007

I’m visiting my nephew Gus (and his parents, Elizabeth and Edward) in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yesterday, we visited nearby Lake George, where Mighty Mouse has found work sitting astride an elephant in a parking lot, beckoning motorists to visit a local amusement park.

For a brief, peculiar time in the 1980s, a New Hampshire animal park called Benson’s changed its name to New England Playworld and adopted a Terry-Toons theme–you could meet Oil Can Harry, eat at a Lariat Sam snackbar, and dump your trash in a Sad Cat wastebin. It had a sculpture of Mighty and the elephant, and this one in Lake George is either that very one or an identical example…

San Diego Art Finds

July 31, 2007

Okay, here’s my booty from the show…

One of my favorite San Diego dealers is Van Eaton Galleries. Friendly folks who always seem to have some animation art I want at a price I can afford.

Last year at Van Eaton, I bought a piece of Scrappy-related art that featured a little kid who looked like Harpo Marx. This year, I bought a more finished-looking version of the same pose, one that adds a harp and a name: Zadoc. I have no idea whether this character ever appeared in a cartoon. Do you? (Incidentally, the character design and pose are extremely Dick Huemeresque–if the drawing isn’t by him, it’s very much in his school)

And here’s a model sheet of a character who could only be a Terry-Toons character: a sexy harem girl mouse…

I’m not sure if this model sheet is from Aladdin’s Lamp, but it might be. (Didn’t Terry make hundreds of cartoons involving rodent harems?) Even if it’s not, it’s an excuse to embed that Mighty Mouse cartoon: