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2026-01-17 07:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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More Bio: HUGO WHERE? Part Four (For Paid Subscribers Only!)
So all the kings, wizards and scullery maids culminated in this orange furred cat jester and his schizophrenic existence. Privileged status and an object of ridicule. Closest companion of the king and sleeping in the attic in an empty soap box. Not self assured, a little cranky and endowed with an endless, even dizzily bounty of hope. Other servants ridiculed his adoration of the princess, and ...
2026-01-16 06:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
TONIGHT (For Paid Subscribers Only!)
I'm still completing the final scene of CAT AND MOUSE!
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HUGO WHERE? Part Three (For Paid Subscribers Only!)
I didn't get any outright understanding. The answer from everyone was simply “Leave!” On what?
So when a friend offered me to join him as a roommate in his apartment in Astoria, Queens, I jumped at it, as unready and unsteady as I was.
There was a hell of a lot of cross cutting during this tumultuous period.
Small publishers were flirting with doing HUGO. Eventually a frie...
2026-01-06 04:24:40 +0000 UTC View PostHUGO WHERE? Part Two! (For Paid Subscribers Only!)
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Sorcery and Fantasy were popular in comics in the late seventies, and I saw something like what I was doing in bound copies like ELFQUEST was.
I was always drawing splash pages for HUGO stories until a friend asked “why are you showing stories you started”? I took that as a cruel fact; yeah, why? I wanted to have the thrill and impact of a splas...
2026-01-04 06:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostMore Bio: HUGO WHERE? (For Paid Subscribers Only!)
More bio, on the origins of my own character:
HUGO WHERE? (For Paid Subscribers Only!)
At age eleven, I had a poem I wrote in the school pamphlet called “I Am A Knight”, with the slaying of a dragon and the rescue of a princess that “looked like Old Fay Wray. It was one of the few things I did that my dad was proud oof, mostly because of the “I Am A Knight/And I Love To Figh...
2026-01-02 02:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostBACK AT IT! (on Sonic...for Paid Subscribers Only!)
More Bio; before FELIX:
BACK AT IT
I was still at the Sherman Oaks apartment, freelancing. I got a call from an editor at Archie Comics about a SONIC THE HEDGEHOG comic. I hadn't heard of the character. I had kind of an antagonism towards video games. I saw them as wastes of the brain. I still do.
The editor envisioned the comic as an Otto Messmer FELIX spin. It sounded good, ...
2026-01-01 20:16:30 +0000 UTC View PostMORE BIO! (For Members Only!)
TWISTED TALE
To do work “for the exposure” is a commonplace joke, but in a singular case in my life, it worked to my advantage.
I had been recruited to do illustration headers for “The Inbetweener”, the newsletter for the animation group of ASIFA-Hollywood. They were appearing when the club had a showing of Max Fleischer's TALKARTOONS series. I was there. Behind me were a co...
2026-01-01 04:35:46 +0000 UTC View PostHAPPY NEW 2026!
I just signed the contract, Friends! IDW will be reprinting my Turtles story, "Cleaver's Critters", this year!
A Big THANKS and WELCOME to a New Subscriber, Vaughn Parish! Your Help Makes It Happen!
Here's to a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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Milt
2026-01-01 04:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostMORE BIO: THE PREMIERE of COOL WORLD! (For Paid Members Only!)
THE PREMIERE
Sorry...I haven't seen the movie since that one time, so my memories get vague.
The audience was abuzz, primed for frank, raunchy entertainment; boisterous screams and revelry through the stark white-on-black titles.
We sat through the live action establishment. It's okay...the fun's coming; we're just learning why.
Cartoon/live begins. By now, audience is m...
2025-12-12 18:24:53 +0000 UTC View PostMORE BIO, MORE BAKSHI! (For Paid Members Only!)
COOL WORLD was a combination of live actors and cartoon characters, and the combination was worked out with the method used way back in the OUT OF THE INKWELL times; the live action was shot first; then single frames were blown up to animation paper size, then the animated character drawings played their role over these blown up photos. No doubt this cumbersome process was a big chunk of the ve...
2025-12-09 03:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostAS OF NOW...
Well, Friends...
I didn't know I'd been away so long over the agony of defeat with my Kickstarter failure. The film will be finished, but not so gloriously.
I've taken a detour for awhile, and have kept busy. Here are three paintings I've done recently, as well as items from a band that uses Ginger as a mascot!
Also: A part of the autobio I've been teasing myself about writing...
2025-12-08 04:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostMY KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS UP!
Please Spread the Word, Dear Patrons!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1856770979/cat-and-mouse-an-animated-cartoon-about-dome...
2025-10-15 04:38:50 +0000 UTC View PostMORE KICKSTARTER REWARDS!
Kickstarter Reward: 9 x 12" and 12 x 17 1/2" painting on black paper!
More Soon, Milty!
2025-10-11 04:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostKICKSTARTER REWARDS!
Illustrating two Kickstarter Rewards to donors! Starting from original animation drawings from the project, it graduates to personal drawings done for YOU!
More Later, Dear Patrons...
Milt!
2025-10-06 04:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostSOMETHING WHIZZ (2025)
A work of abstract animation created this month!
2025-09-25 01:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostNOTIONS
Animation is Magic.
Animation is not an "illusion of life", it is Life itself.
2025-09-24 04:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostMO'REWARDS!
Theatrical shorts and features often had sets of six smaller posters to display in the entrance to a theatre! Here's a set of six I've made for prints as a KICKSTARTER Reward of my cartoon!
2025-09-24 00:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostPOSTER!
This shall be one of the Rewards in my Kickstarter campaign! Will be editing to make the black type readable!
2025-09-19 06:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostSTILL AT IT!
The heavy work on the last two scenes!
MY NEW FACEBOOK GROUP!
Won't You consider joining my new, fast-growing (321 Members in the first three days!) FB group, CARTOON EXOTICA! A group for links to and stills from Animation's Truly Unusuals because of technique, time or place! The independent studios only! Trying to post a link to the group has been problematic for me, but entering "Cartoon Exotica!" into Facebook Search w...
2025-08-14 04:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostHERE and NOW!
A Huge WELCOME and THANKS to a New Patron, Wicked Fangs! Your Help Makes It Happen!
I was without a 'puter for a week, but I'm back at finishing the Film!
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-MK
WELCOMES & DRAWINGS!
A BIG WELCOME to New Subscribers, yhenestik, crazypaul, and SamGough-Yates! Your Help Makes it Happen!
Plus some drawings...
Best Wishes, Milt!
2025-07-10 23:15:15 +0000 UTC View PostPROMO W/NARRATION!
A new section of the CAT AND MOUSE promo reel with my rationalizations, made tonight...
2025-06-30 06:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostPROMO, SO FAR!
Here's a chunk of my funding promo!
A Big WELCOME and THANK YOU to a New Subscriber, Dale Oliphant! Your Help Makes it Happen!
More Soon, Milt!
2025-06-16 22:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostCAT AND MOUSE TODAY! (Paid Subscribers Only!)
The most complete state of my film yet. I will soon be starting a Kickstarter campaign for final completion!
Words from cartoon historian and journalist Jerry Beck: "NICE! Milton. The first half (in rough) feel very "raw", rough and powerful. I feel like you are inventing a new animation art form. Using techniques from silent film.I mean this in a good way - this LOOKS like something Ralp...
2025-06-15 01:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post
THE CRISPY KID DRIBBLES AGAIN!
A drawing I am completing for Crisp Imaging! I learned from Chinese illustrators and Thomas Hart Benton to compose in curves.
I'm not a bball fan, will I will be when I'm called upon it!
Love, Milt
2025-05-25 03:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post