Recent content by Budman

And I turned 55 in January! So Popeye and the HB cartoons were on all the time after school and on Saturday mornings.

I used to see both of these cartoons when I was visiting my grandmother's house in PA. As a child, they fascinated me. The idea of the Oz charcters and Pinnochio havin continuiing adventures beyond their famous movies intrigued me.

Stephane, You are correct! I was referring the '60s cartoons like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, the Herculoids, etc., when I talked about HB cartoons being on Tv all the time.

Thanks, HBfan! I hope you enjoy the book! And if you like the '60s HB cartoons, I suspect that you and I both grew up in the era when they and the Popeye toons were shown on TV all the time. Those were the days!

My new book, "Stronger Than Spinach - The Secret Appeal of the Famous Studios Popeye Cartoons" published by Bear Manor Media, is now available at amazon.com and bearmanormedia.com. It's a fan's celebration of the films a lot of us grew up watching on TV. But because the cartoons were originally...

Several years ago I bought an 8 volume VCR boxed set on Amazon.com from republic Pictures that Jerry Beck had a hand in compiling. I think it has every Betty Boop cartoon except "Popeye The Sailor."

I'm sorry to hear of Mr. Beck's passing. From old time radio to cartoons to movies and commercials, Mr. Beck did it all. I particularly enjoyed the way the his Bluto (and the other rivals of Popeye in the Famous Studios cartoons) could go from cunning to evil to suave to low class to lustful...

There are details about a "lost" Famous Studios cartoon featuring Bluto as The Devil and Popeye and Olive journeying to Hell up at my website: http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/poplost.htm

I also enjoy the extremely limited-to-the-point-of-almost-being-non-existent animation of the old Marvel superhero cartoons of the '60s, because those films had great voices, and theme songs, and helped introduce me to the Marvel Universe.

I have a hard time labeling anything I like as a "guilty pleasure." I find something commendable in all the things I like, otherwise I wouldn't like them. I don't really have any cartoons that, for me, fit into the "so bad they're good" or "fun to watch in order to make fun of" categories. If...

I was always put off by cartoons in which the character I thought of as the take charge guy was the victim, as in the films where Bugs Bunny is beset by the Gremlin or the turtle. And by the films where the good guy was a villain of sorts, as in the cartoons where Bugs is wanted by the law or...

Toonheads got it wrong, unfortunately. In Bluto's debut in the comic strip, he was a pirate and he and Popeye were bitter enemies. And in Popeye's first animated appearance, he tried to snatch Olive away from Popeye.

I agree with all the choices that have been mentioned. Also, many of the Famous Studios Popeye cartoons featured, what I call on my website, "Wolf Reactions to Olive Oyl" that were very Avery-esque. As they get a load of Ms. Oyl guys stiffen, stretch toward her, drop their jaws, let their...

Indeed he was. He was clean shaven, except for a mustache, and had a slightly different facial structure than Bluto. He was a fur trader in "Snow Place Like Home," and a pirate captain in "Popeye And The Pirates." In at least one KFS cartoon I know of, Brutus was called "Lucky Pierre." The...

This was a dream that Popeye was having. I thnk the name of the cartoon was "Intellectual Interlude."