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Some interesting comments from this blog.
I'm a fan of Ken Hultgren's comic book work for ACG/Standard in titles such as Giggle and Ha Ha. Many of the characters in this book are his characters in the comic book series, particularly the squirrel and chipmunk characters.
Jack Bradbury, another animator turned comic book artist, told me that Hultgren could turn out a finished page of comic book material from blank sheet through inks and letters in 15 minutes! At $10 a page, this was a lot better income than animation at the time.
I sought out The Know-How of Cartooning a number of years ago when I found a mention of it in the Library of Congress copyright section. It's a nice book, a genuine precursor to Blair's Animation book.
Did you notice that Hultgren's book came out one year prior to Preston Blair's original Animation book (I guess it was called Advanced Animation then).
Did you also notice that apparently Blair borrowed some poses from Hultgren's book? Take a look at the cow on page 23 and the billygoat on page 22 of Hultgren's to see what I mean. Having grown up with the Animation book, those two drawings jumped right out at me.
Thanks for posting this!
BTW, you should credit John K for the composition pages. They were unused manuals for the canadian animation studios on The Ripping Friends, left unopened and locked in a producer's office. Yech. no wonder the show was horrendous, and John agrees.