meeting childhood heroes

[Darren Jeffrey]

Do a lot of mountaineering and met Kenton Cool recently. Big idol of mine. Summited Everest 10 times amongst other things

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh, done that...
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Although this might disturb you a bit...

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Thomas doesn't look very happy in that second picture

No, *hand wrings* the REAL Thomas!!

 

[Peteaud]

Still waiting to meet Sally James from Tiswas

 

[Peteaud]

I mean, if you ever get the chance to the see Wyle .E. Coyote and Roadrunner episodes back to back you suddenly see just how clever they actually were!

Not only was there the fantastic artwork in the original ones, even in the background, and the fact that the quite frankly insane landscape actually acted as a third, inanimate character, you saw themes emerging throughout the episodes and even things from previous episodes suddenly hijacking one of Wyle's daft schemes, such as when he set off a bunch of exploding planes in one episode, only for them to fly off and never be seen again.... Except that one suddenly appeared totally out of the blue in a later episode right at the wrong moment, ruining his ( then) attempt. Unless you had seen that earlier episode, you wouldn't have known what had just happened.

All he had to do was give you a look and you 'knew', he never had to say anything at all!

Hell what am I saying? My heroes would be the animators without any shadow of a doubt! To create a character who you understood and felt sympathy for without ever speaking must have taken a truly fantastic amount of skill, and I for one salute them.

Fcuk the Simpsons et al, speech is cheap whereas conveying the same thing silently is anything but!

Come on, Those are proper cartoons, not the durge that is churned out now.

Fred Quimby - Tom & Jerry, is a god.