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The SticksROGER RAMJET - Animators & Stripbars!
“Wait until I pop a Proton Pill then you will be in big trouble my friend!”
Fred Crippen’s Rodger Ramjet. Gone but not forgotten! Gonzo animation in its dearest, rawest form. Made on the cheap, voice over work done in one take, and animation that looked like it was made by a right handed person drawing with their left hand!
I once knew a kids cartoon animator… deceptively dangerous person! He used to animate for Danger Mouse, etc… (Full list I forget now, but at the time I remember being impressed as he reeled off all my childhood favourites).
I don’t know when he had time to animate cartoons cause he used to spend all his waking hours (1.00pm-3am) smoking Benson & Hedges fags, drinking beers and spending the occasional evening in the local strip bars. Yet he produced some of the most wonderful kid’s cartoons the world has ever seen.
I guess that contradiction that was so obvious in what this person should have been like and what he was actually like was something that stuck in my mind, and made me approach kids cartoons in a whole different way!
But now it’s obviously evident that the people who make kids cartoons are not ‘normal’ anyway! Look at Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons etc… A few examples of kids/adults crossover toons. But if it wasn’t for these deeply interesting individuals kids would be roaming around with a few less smiles and strip bar income would be significantly lower.
This rare footage of Fred Flintsone and Barny Rubble having a quick smoke says it all really don’t it?
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