DePatie-Freleng: Pink Panther Scene 2

A piece that will forever have great meaning to me as it was a gift from my wife. Until recently, she accepted but did not seem to understand my desire to collect animation cels or comic OA. But when she gave me these two Pink Panther cels for my birthday, it signaled that she understood/accepted this quirky hobby. Oh, how I love her for that!

With the continuing increased prices for original comic art as well as the trend to have pencils and inks on different pages (AND the other trend of artists creating digitally), I am starting to turn my eye toward collecting animation cels. Come to find out, I get as big or bigger rush owning cels from cartoons I watched in my childhood.

I was a huge cartoon fan from the 60s and 70s and although there may have been others, the only one I remember having a laugh-track was Pink Panther. FROM WIKIPEDIA: "By the time of the show's 1969 debut, fitting cartoon and children's shows with a laugh track was standard practice. In keeping with this standard, NBC added a laugh track to all seasons of The Pink Panther Show, marking the first time in history that theatrical films were fitted with a laugh track for television broadcast (Season 2 utilized an inferior laugh track, utilizing isolated laugh clips from Season 1). This was an anomaly, as other theatrical cartoon series that were airing successfully on television (i.e. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes, Popeye) did not receive this addition.)"