Comic Art 21 Jul 2006 07:50 am
Comix Reuse
- Animated films have been stealing from comic strips forever. I mentioned weeks back that the Letterman films took some of its inking style from Herriman’s Krazy Kat.
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- This strip (only a partial strip is posted) was used on Raggedy Ann & Andy as a guide for Ann, Andy & the Camel to slide down the banister into the King’s palace. Other strips from McCay’s Little Nemo were used as well.
John Kimball animated this sequence, and I did many of the inbetweens (I also got to dole out a lot of them).
Between this and the seq- uence where 72 camels animated concentrically into the distance, six months of the film moved very slowly for me. I was doing a lot more supervision and pro- duction work concurrently, but kept coming back to this Kimball animation.
- Nancy Beiman, on her blog The Demon Duck of Doom, posts some material about Winsor McCay and Little Nemo. It’s a good read, and Nancy has an equally good blog.
