The thoughtless stage magician Presto DiGiotagione forgets to feed Alec Azam, his rabbit, before a performance.  Hilarity ensues. Alec is one of the many adorable rabbits cartoons have brought us. And now, Presto, the film! https://youtu.be/D4Dnm6dkOVI   Presto was made in 2008 by Pixar Studios, a Walt Disney acquisition.    Treat them bunnies right!  

  Captain Marvel Adventures 126, November 1951   Hi Guys ! I'm back with another Mr. Tawny story for you!  This lovable talking tiger from the pages of Captain Marvel Adventures needs no further introduction , so we'll just get right into it !  Today's offering, from November, 1951, is entitled " Mr. Tawny's Fight for Fame ."  If you ask me, the plot is pretty self-explanatory , but I gotta admit that our hero has some odd ideas about what makes a guy famous ! Check it out and you'll see what I mean !         Well, as usual, Mr. Tawny has successfully learned his lesson !  I'm not sure he's going to win eternal fame for writing some boring book , but books are a better deal than risking your life !  And hey, comic books are the best deal of all !  OK guys , that's all for now.  See you next time !   ******* So what's the "secret flavor?"  Mayonnaise?  Chicken gumbo?  "Bubble gum" flavor works just fine, thank

Wallace Tripp, of course.     Wallace Whitney Tripp, 78, passed away in Francestown, NH on September 9, 2018, after a three-decade struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Tripp was a children’s book illustrator who had a brief but productive career, ultimately illustrating some thirty-nine children’s books for other authors, and nine books of his own, as well as creating hundreds images for Pawprints Greeting Cards. Tripp started his career in children’s books; popular titles include “Stand Back,” Said the Elephant, “I’m Going to Sneeze!”, A Great, Big, Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me, Sir Toby Jingle’s Beastly Journey, and two books in the Amelia Bedilia series. His pen-and-ink and watercolor style of drawing was meticulous and classical, but his love of comic book art kept subjects lively. Tripp specialized in anthropomorphic animals, often dressed in carefully researched period costumes. He admired the story telling of illustrator Ernest Shepard, the linework and

What the hammer? what the chain,  In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp,  Dare its deadly terrors clasp! Old Mother Flipper Flopper jumped out of the bed; Out of the window she cocked her head, Crying, "John, John! The grey goose is gone And the fox is on the town-o, town-o, town-o, Crying, "John, John! The grey goose is gone And the fox is on the town-O! https://youtu.be/r_dQFVSbyrY https://youtu.be/UXqGkjiD-1k   3 X AlemCoksa   https://www.deviantart.com/alemcoksa   Inhuman is what we do here.   Captions from William Blake, the traditional folk song The Fox as performed by Burl Ives, and a sample from Serge Prokofiev, Peter And The Wolf.   

  Alone and broke in a strange land, Reepicheep sells his sword to the local king.  Already things are off to a bad start.  But, thinks the mouse, promotion is going to be swift, what with the two upcoming vacancies and all. https://youtu.be/GzQJaA0Fl0M?t=132  Reepicheep, Pauline Baynes.  It's not the size of the mouse in the fight, but...  

 Continuing on with a travel theme,we arrive at the 1930's. The automobiles were starting to look more stream-lined with a art deco style (for the few that could afford a new car in The Great Depression). This young lady is ready to hit the road in her new car~ From sketch~ To painting~ To video~

 Button Bright, ( Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith), his head temporarily changed into that of a fox by King Dox of Foxville. "Clever! clever indeed. Of course you don't know. Nobody knows why; we only know it's so, and can't tell why it's so. Button-Bright, those curls and blue eyes do not go well with so much wisdom. They make you look too youthful, and hide your real cleverness. Therefore, I will do you a great favor. I will confer upon you the head of a fox, so that you may hereafter look as bright as you really are." As he spoke the King waved his paw toward the boy, and at once the pretty curls and fresh round face and big blue eyes were gone, while in their place a fox's head appeared upon Button-Bright's shoulders—a hairy head with a sharp nose, pointed ears, and keen little eyes. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26624/26624-h/26624-h.htm#CHAP_4   Eureka the white Kitten.  The last third of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz pres