But my webspace is still down so I can't post anything.
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Patrick, I hate to do this to ya again, but I really HAVE to at least post these. Hope it's all right.
First off - the cover to the VHS of Raggedy Ann & Andy is hideous. So I did this one.
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The character scans are from the book by John Canemaker. Most of them were either uncolored (Raggedy Ann & Andy) or were color guides that had massive lines drawn all through them to indicate colors, which had to be carefully removed (Captain, Kookoo, Loonie Knight, Babette, and Queasy). Not an easy job, but quite pleased with the results.
Meanwhile, John Loter has been sending me some startlingly informative articles from waaaay back in the Nasrudin days of the film.
It seems like every character in the film apart from Tack was really created for Nasrudin. The Mad Holy Old Witch was originally The Mad and Holy Old Indian Witch of Benares. (You can still tell she's from India.)
And One Eye? He was originally the Great Mogul of India, on a throne of Indian women. His soldiers rode on giant elephants.
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Here's some art by Errol LeCain, from a Japanese book. Most of these you'll have seen before at Eddie's site ... including the image of Meemee and Bubba (the enchanted Ogre Prince), and an early look at Tack and the Brigands sleeping as The Thief in his tent steals away.
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RANDOM FACT OF THE DAY:
According to Alex Williams, Richard was approached to do the "Carnival of the Animals" segment in Disney's recent Fantasia 2000. Alex says he had some idea for doing it in an innovative way ... which he can't remember. Eisner or some other exec didn't like it after a while, and the piece was done, quite well, by Eric Goldberg (whose two segments were the only highlight of a shockingly toothless film).