#super friends
“I grew up on Superfriends and that Animated Universe. Even though most of my childhood took place in the era of the Justice League and DCAU, I had never watched any of them until around 2008.”
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Look how much fun Dylan Saunders has singing Super Friends!!!
I hope you all experience that much joy today!
I was watching a promo video with Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan talking about Bucky’s 106th birthday and during the interview, Sebastian googled Sam Wilson’s birthday…which is April 14th…today! I did a last minute illustration to honor Sam “The Falcon Captain America” Wilson.
Happy Birthday Sam!!!!
I love this! You did a great job.
“The Secret of the Sinister Lighthouse” a mini-comic free in boxes of Post Cereals in 1980. Posted upon request! :)
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Alex Toth’s character designs for Wonder Woman, developed for the Super Friends series.
Toth’s initial designs paid homage to H.G. Peter, but this look was scrapped a few months later.
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…specifically at the bank with no doors, and some really wonky sizing!
I love how old superhero cartoons never have the scale match up, often giving this surreal “playing with action figures on an unintended, larger playset”vibe.
He starts to escape out into the street…
…but aha, the day is saved! Our heroes!
Who he… shines a mirror at!
…which completely incapacitates them!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it’s an evil mirror of some kind, but it’s just so funny to watch him sloooowly mosey back to his car…
…while they’re just like “yup, sorry guys, gotta rub our eyes now"…
"…it’s your problem now, Batman.”
Andhe don’t look so pleased ‘bout it neither.
“Oh, for the love of–… I haven’t had it *this* bad since the ‘40s black and white serials.”
You want to cut costs? Maybe re-use some animation?
Don’t just have the exact same people run away…
…twice in a row… a single secondlater…all in one continuous shot.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Now, if I can just get the time machine running….
When everyone is hangin’ out at secret headquarters…
…and they’re messaged about some dramatic,nefarious event like a bank robbery…
…or a code 2 at the observatory…
…on a screen thatthe animators sometimes decide to black out, and sometimes don’t…
…or on the Super-Fax-Machine, with an–
…wait,never mind, the bad guy sent that. We know who that was.
Though he did have the embarrassing task of needing to type out “superfriend” while trying to be threatening.
But. In all other cases.
Who’s sendin’ them messages that a bad guy is crashin’ a county fair?
…admittedly, some of these might be a little less dramatic and nefarious than others.
Carl the Animator: “Hm?”
Ted the Animator: “Your background character… why did you–….”
Carl the Animator: “Oh, her, yeah!”
Ted the Animator: “…she’s pink.”
Carl the Animator: “Yeah?”
Ted the Animator: “Entirely pink.”
Carl the Animator: “It’s a superhero show! That’s not weird.”
Ted the Animator: “She’s a random county fair pie-baking competitor!”
Carl the Animator: “I mean… some non-super-people are pretty pink.”
Ted the Animator: “Not like they’re made of freakin’ strawberry ice cream,Carl.”
Carl the Animator: “…well… that just goes along all the better with there being pies.”
…and yes, thisis the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
Time once again for my favoritehobby…
…discovering a speck on the animation cels…
…and watchin’ that sucker go on a little adventure all of his own.
And for a limited time, try our all-new live-action variant – featuring the bit of fluff over the river from A Talking Cat!?!
“We’re trapped in a mirror dimension. No one to come save us… only one thing left to do.”
“Initiateaggressive wiggling.”
Batman and Robin, jumping a boulder with a car!
Samurai, creating a tornado over the ocean!
Superman… um… bringing a mirrorhome!
We may admittedly have left the realm of badassery a little, and entered the realm of… well, IKEA-tripery.
It doesn’t matter that there’s a huge mirror on the truck.
It doesn’t matter that Batman and Robin are chasing an entirely-mirror-themedvillain.
Show me a scene in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon…
…with two sets of characters’ heads…
…and my brain says “oh no, someone overlapped both cels again.”
But alas, it’s perfectly sensible.
…that said, a second later the truck does disappear in the front angle,
so hey, at least it gave us a consolation prize.
Ted the Animator: “Just a minute, just a minute, not quite finished yet.”
Carl the Animator: “Hanna-Barbera wants it now, it’s plenty finished for their purposes.”
Ted the Animator: “Seriously, hold on, I–”
Carl the Animator: “One single shot uses it, there doesn’t have to be much detail. It’ll be fine.”
Ted the Animator: “Carl, it’s not ‘unfinished’ like ‘needs final touches…’”
Ted the Animator: “…it’s ‘unfinished’ like ‘there’s a chunk without any paint on it.’“
Carl the Animator: “Yeah, and a Super Friends episode makes most animatics look like a finished Pixar release. No one will notice.”
Ted the Animator: “…it’s 1984, what’s Pixar?”
Carl the Animator: “…shh. Just pretend we have logical continuity.”
…and now Super Friends has worked hard to reinforce…
…is that all across the US, in every major city…
…we just love our seven-lane, undivided downtown highways.
That said, they found a very-American answer to car-dependant infrastructure: compensating with a sidewalk the width of a house across.
Possibly the most “didn’t know I needed this” thing I’ve ever not known I needed.
Found a Super Friends comic I had since I was four and tried to make a new cover for it. But nothing beats the original Ramona Fradon art.
