22/04/14 15:59 Filed in:
Flashback Wednesdays | Art“...
Take me out with the crowd; buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back.” -
Jack NorworthThis week’s Flashback Wednesday is “half” of a
Looney Tunes Limited Edition lithograph. This tribute-print was done to commemorate the twelve members of the
Major League Baseball’s
3000 Hit Club. The final color shows the complete image. It was divided in two sections: the left was designed by WBCP Senior Character Artist San Wei Chan, while I worked on the right side. It was done this way because the project was a rush job.
The final litho were framed, tagged with both, the Warner Bros. and the MLB logos and signed by the members of the club. It had a limited run of 1000 copies.

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Bob
Tags: Art, WBCP, Taz, Sylvester Cat, Gosamer
16/04/14 17:59 Filed in:
Flashback Wednesdays | ArtFlashback Wednesdays... on a Wednesday!. ^.^
This week’s Flashback is a rough-pencil - no inking was requested, for a line of limited prints sold at the
Warner Bros. Studio Stores. For some reason, I was asked to draw the instrument’s details - knobs, keys, etc, on a second layer. After its run and with the closure of the WB stores, the image is now sold has a large-size poster, which I have signed quiet a lot-of during the last few years.


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The painting was done by
David Edward Byrd.
Bob
Tags: Art, WBCP, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester Cat, Taz, Blueline, Final Art
14/04/14 16:55 Filed in:
Multimedia | TrailerDreamWorks Animation’s official trailer for their
How To Train Your Dragon 2 Animated Feature Film. June 3rd, baby!. =D

Bob
Tags: DreamWorks
12/04/14 01:21 Filed in:
Flashback Wednesdays | ArtFlashback Wednesdays… on a Saturday this time. >.<
This drawing of
Marvin the Martian and K-9 was requested by
Six Flags Magic Mountain, more specifically for their park’s Looney Tunes merchandise.
While Marvin and K-9 were easy to conceptualize, I had to do some research for the style of the telescope, so it would matched the same style
Chuck Jones had developed when he created Marvin the Martian - first introduced in Jones’ animated short
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953.) It was
Maurice Noble background and layout, the same artist who had worked with Jones for the film, who provided the perfect inspiration for my design.

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I never saw the final product on any merchandise based on my designs, but a couple of years ago I was able to pick up this postcard at the
Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.


Bob
Tags: Art, WBCP, Marvin the Martian, K-9, Rough, Blueline, Final Art
11/04/14 01:29 Filed in:
Comics | US Comics | Euro ComicsJust in time for the weekend I got my orders for
Mondo Lirondo: The Ultimate Collection and
Lackadaisy: Volume 1.
Lackadaisy: Volume 1 is the first collected volume of the webcomic of
the same name by American artist
Tracy J. Butler.

For those not familiar with this series, it’s a highly detailed take on the
1920’s Prohibition Era. Set in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, the story revolves around the owner and employees of the
speakeasy “
Lackadaisy.” The story’s settings is filled with politicians,
moonshiners, gangsters, assassins,
Tommy guns, booze and
flappers. Very recommendable.
Available via
4th Dimension Entertainment (online store).
Mondo Lirondo: The Ultimate Collection is the complete collected works of the comic book series from the European Spanish artist collective
Colectivo La Penya. Very unusual but entertaining.
Available via
FNAC España. I’m not aware of any translated version of the book other than Spanish.
Bob
Tags: Comic, España, USA
07/04/14 10:20 Filed in:
Other | Art | MagazineHere is the cover of the December 1996
Variety Magazine I worked on, announcing
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. acquisition of
Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc.’s intellectual property.
The (
WBCP) artists that illustrated this issue were myself - drawing
Fred Flinstone, senior character designer
San Wei Chan -
Bugs Bunny and
animation director Frank Espinosa -
Tom and Jerry.The issue was published right before Christmas, which made for a nice Christmas’ present.

Bob
Tags: Art, Fred Flintstone, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, WBCP, Hanna-Barbera, Final Art
03/04/14 10:20 Filed in:
Flashback Wednesdays | ArtHi again;
This is Flashback Wednesdays… on a Thursday. This post is about a very-common task many Artist have to do, specially in the Consumer products field: the recreation - or update, of an old piece of art for merchandising…


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Bob
Tags: Art, Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, WBCP, Rough, Blueline