What The Buck?

Saturday Some More Leftovers Day.

Some time ago I shared a couple of interesting illustrations fro Mickey Mouse Club Magazine by people such as soryboard genius Bill Peet. Here is one more and another interesting feature by Dick Huemer and Phil Hartley. This might be as good a place as any to tell you I just recieved my copy of Classic Comic Press' complete reprint of Dick Huemer and Paul Murray's Buck O'Rue. I have shown some samples of this strip, but as soon as I heard Charles Pelto was doing a complete edition (with a cover by Dutch artist Gerben Valkema in a spot on Paul Murray imitation) I stopped uploading ine. Well, it's everything I hopes for, in high quality reprinting. If you remember Murray's Mickey Mouse fondly or are into parody strips, this one is great to get or ask for for any occasion.

The Peet That Roared

Little Saturday Extra.

In october last year I came across two charming Bill Peet articles from Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Magazine. Bill Peet was an important storyman for Disney in the fifties, who left after a dispute with the boss over Junglebook and made himself a nice new career as children's book writer and illustrator.

Since then I have run across other articles written and ilustrated by Peet in the same magazine. Enough to make me belief he might have been in every issue from a certain point in the second year. One of these pieces is the next part of one I showed earlier, the last one a particulary impressive mouse tale.

If I had a blog that was devoted to animation, I would hunt down all of these issues and make a list or do an article on all of them. Hey, if someone asks, I still might.

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Peet What You Sow

Saturday Leftover Day.

If you stick around long enough in any profession, you get to know people. I don't know if I can call Wilbert Plijnaar a friend, but he certainly has a special place among my aquaintances. He once told me a story about Disney lay-out man Bill Peet, which I hope he won't mind my repeating here. While he was working on a new Goofy short (How To Hook Up A Big Screen Television), he was asked to have a look in the Disney Archives to see if there was any old usable Goofy material there. Sniffing around in the boxes of stuff, he came across what must have been the contents of Bill Peet's desk when he left the studio in the early sixties. Peet had left the studio quite quickly, after a disagreement with Walt Dsney over the direction f The Jungle Book and apparently had not tidied up his desk. So everything there was shoved into a box and put in storage. Wilbert told me everything was still there, bits of paper, any old junk and of course lots and lots of sketches. But no one had made any effort to sort it out. It was just labeled Bill's Stuff or something like that. Makes you wonder what else is still out there.

Bill Peet was one of the best story board artists isney ever had. It has been said that most of wht you see on the screen of the 101 Dalmtions, was his work. I have to side with Walt Disney on The Jungle Book, if only because it is my favorite film (and in fact the first film I ever saw in a movie theatre)m, bt I agree that it is always a pleasure to see Peet's work.

So it was a big surprise to me when I came across some of Peet's illustrations in online copies of two Mickey Mouse Club magazine. as you can see from the numbering, there must be more of this sort of stuff out there. Dsney artists such as Peet (and Kinney, who also has a feature in one of the issues) must have been alowed to make an extra buck by working for the magazine.

So this is for Wilbert. May all your sketches be saved.