Hey fans - just a quick note to let you know I now have a Twitter account. If you're interested in my various pop culture-related projects, from Scared Silly to my comic book work and everywhere in-between, I encourage you to follow me there as I "tweet" about endeavors past, present and future. Just click here to get to my Twitter page.
As for the photo up-top, yes, that's the skeleton of famous Looney Tunes cartoon character Tweety Bird. Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee made a series of skeletons he calls "Animatus" which analyzes the skeletal structure of our favorite cartoon stars. Of course, we love that here at Scared Silly - the more skeletons the better! You can see Lee's other creations when you click here.
Since we're on a bird theme (after all, birds "tweeted" long before humans did), let's pull out a classic public domain Flip the Frog cartoon. We've shown "Spooks" before here at Scared Silly - that one has a brief gag with a cuckoo clock inhabited by a skeleton bird. This time, let's take a look at a Flip flick where the cuckoo is the title star, the "old dark house" spoof "The Cuckoo Murder Case." Hmmmm... perhaps that explains his skeletal appearance in "Spooks?!" Anyway... ENJOY!
What an adorable cartoon! I've always found early '30s animation to be so much more wildly inventive than anything that's come after - it shows a much more radical sense of experimentation with the form than any Pixar-like product being made today. Thanks for posting it!
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