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As the guy who wrote the book on FILMATION with Lou Scheimer, I can GUARANTEE you that this has NOTHING to do with Filmation. It is a piece similarly styled to Hanna Barbera Super Friends art, and part of a group I've seen that claims to be Filmation based, but is NOT. This is DEFINITELY post-1973, post-Hanna Barbera design. Most likely post-1977, but pre-1982.
My educated guess is that these were either done by animators as warm-ups, or by advertisers producing the Underoos ads or the Post Cereal ads. It's also possible that it's from one of the animators who did sketches or recreations at conventions, like Darrell McNeil.
It's an interesting piece of art, but without provenance, it's basically as valuable as an unsigned con sketch.
-- Andy Mangels
www.andymangels.com
Lovely image - what can be seen. It's so tiny that it's almost lost...
Lovely image - what can be seen. It's so tiny that it's almost lost...
You are correct. This piece is a print. Sorry. While uploading over 150 pieces for charity, I probably made a mistake or two in checking the wrong boxes. Will fix it now.
This was one of the earliest pieces of character design work for the Peter Pan & Wendy mini-series that we were working on for (and which I brought to) Eclipse. As the person who brought both Craig and Rick aboard for the project, I felt (and feel) Craig's pencil work had a magical quality, and Rick was the right person to ink him. Craig took my fully detailed scripts and brought them to elegant life. For a look at more art done for the project -- including that by artists who preceded Craig (but included Rick) -- see an article in the upcoming BACK ISSUE #24 from TwoMorrows. Unfortunately, Craig chose not to be interviewed, but Rick and I are, and it is the only place to see some of the inked and lettered pages, and the record-breaking Hook piece that sold at San Diego. There's also a bit more about the project on my website, including Ray's new Hook piece in its only "colored" form for a mock cover: www.andymangels.com/peterpan.html
