Who owns Cartoons Magazine or the rights to it now? Anybody know? I keep thinking somebody might do some "Best of Cartoons" books or a Cartoons Omnibus since the market would probably make it worthwhile right now. Has any publisher ever given that any thought? What is the status of that material now?
Wow I was just thinkin about the old cartoons mag todayand am diggin through all my old **** to see if any survived.
Man I totally forgot about that magazine, I used to get it all the time. Would be nice if they did a best of or maybe a bound collection for public sale.
Ever since I visited David Guymons place and saw his, I started buying them again. They are a little challenging for my 3rd grade reading level but well worth the extra effort for such a fine read. I love them.
I still have one or two floatin' around. Kr*** & Bernie are still alive in I think Car Craft. George Trosley also did some of the most vile and disgusting cartoons I ever saw in "Hustler". I loved those...
Dont forget Pete Millars "Drag Cartoons" The finest in Automotive Humor! Ive collected all of the old issues via ebay and quit a few of the original "Cartoons" also. Great stuff!
Man! I loved CAR TOONS...after it came out I never bought MAD again. I'll have to see if they are still around at my Dad's house...good possibility even after all these years. We're both packrats like most true hotroders.
Trosley was here on the board once or twice...I wonder if he still lurks, knowing total fanboys (me being thier leader) are here too. *******...that stuff is in my head. stuck permenant. I see little peices of it everywhere. anybody remember the "Flaming Hellfish" episode of the simpsons? at the end the end, A German kid gets out of a German car and after scooping up the paintings proclaims "Ve haf to get back to Schtuutgart to catch Kraftverk" I swear to god, not only did I first read that line in a Car Toons, it also made refrence to Blaupunkt and Porsche (but I think it was spelled out porschya) awesome. 15 years of seperation and my warped mind remembers it. like I said, that stuff is IN there,man.
I also bought Hot Rod Cartoons back in the 60s and early 70s, very similar to CARtoons. I think they quit publishing about 1974. Trosley did a lot of their work too.
I would buy Cartoons and Hot Rod Cartoons now if I could find them. Those rotten *******s are what got me in to hot rodding heavy. Man I loved Rudy Hogg. In the early 70's I was drawing a cartoon called "The Adventures of Super Bubble" he was a street racer always getting in trouble with the cops. Sorry for the rambling, continue on. Mick
Oooh! I love those magazines! I was just flipping through a couple of them last night. Found them in a box of my old magazines. Would really like to do some paintings of those old characters. Those ornery little varment beatnik characters were too cool.
Here's a couple of cool links. http://www.laffyerasphalt.com/ http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/cars_in_cartoons_history/ I believe there are some up for auction on ebay also.
CARtoons mag is what started my SICKNESS! Unk and them Varmit's. Trosley's Kr*** and Bernie Steve Austin's CUTAWAY Kohler Shawn Kerry Drew Hardin CARtoons just had SO much good content. I have @ 15 issues. Most mid 80's and a couple mid 60's.
I got to wondering the other day and did a little web searching about Shawn Kerry. She was into the punk rock scene and her death was the results of some kind of drug usage. Sad.
Damn.....didn't know that. Isn't there a Drew Hardin that has articles in the HOP UP annuals?? Same guy as in the 80's CARtoons?
Trosley is awsome! Honest to god, Cartoons taught me more about cars when I was a kid than anything else. I bought them untill the summer of 91. Little did I know that the mag had folded by then. I must have looked in every damn store in town for months. I dug the reader's art pages. I cribed so many ideas from that. I'd buy a compellation book for sure.
Cartoons really got me started on hot rods when i was a kid. Someday i am going to get a set. All of mine from when i was a kid are gone now...i miss it.
I'm not entirely sure but I think Pete Millar owned the rights to Car Toons at one time.I know his estate has the rights to Drag Cartoons and the previously mentioned site has them available on CD.Pete used to do little cartoon characters for Hot Rod,Car Craft,and Rod and Custom in the mid 50's(as did Tom Medley)which is where I was inspired to try my hand at them.They looked so deceptively simple until you tried to reproduce one.I found that the simpler the drawing was the more difficult it was to copy. That is the reason that Johnny Hart and Charles Schultz were so successful:They could capture a look with an absolute minimum of lines and it came through years of practice.If you look at some of the earlier Peanuts cartoons,their expressions weren't anywhere near as good as the later ones.Johnny Hart did the same with B.C. He could do a nine panel cartoon(Sunday format)and have one word in the last panel and it said it all.I have NEVER been able to successfully copy his characters and get the feeling he had in them.One of the greatest in my book.
I love OLD CARtoons books, as evidenced by my signature line (which i'm surprised nobody has picked up on...) been there almost 2 years...
I'd just like to find a reprint of "Panic Stop", but I would start buying them, too, if they got reproduced. Roger
www.georgetrosley.com there's a link to all the old issues and stuff. man, i forgot how much i loved those mags!!!
The one out there who might have info on the status of the CARtoons name would be Freiburger.Ya out there Dave? I know he posts here once in awhile. Doc
Just saw George yesterday at a car show. I should ask him about who owns the rights to Cartoons... Spike
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