Thursday, July 30, 2009

Jetsons Stories

When Bill and Joe hired me to supervise layouts on some new Jetsons in 1984, I naively thought they might let me write some stories too, so I gave these to someone who patted me on the head and said, "Aw how cute, a cartoonist who wants to write cartoons."
Boy there are some dated stories there that make fun of long gone sitcoms.
Here's my favorite with crummy breakfast scribbles
JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE POLE
Elroy and a playmate look down over the precipice of their apt building and ponder the unknown and unexplored.
Elroy's young and still forming synapses blister with curiosity.
He convinces the the brood to slide down the 17 mile long pole to find out what's down there.
Primitive man awaits.
The end

more scribbles here:

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/07/jetsons-scribbles.html

11 comments:

Chris_Garrison said...

"The laughs abound." Haw! I love that. People should use it whenever they get sick of saying, "Hilarity ensues."

Niki said...

Awesome, primitive man is great! It would be a wonder to actually get to work on this!

Torsten Adair said...

OMFG... Hilarious! You should write and draw that for MAD Magazine... "Jetsons: The Final Episode"!

Khaki Hat said...

Scalp on a stick.
Morbid.

I like it!

ProjectEarth said...

John,

Been a long time, wondering if you could give me a shout, would love to show you what we are doing in flash and have some ideas about working together in the online game space.

Michael Pole
(818) 901-9960 ext 235

Mr. Semaj said...

"The Bottom of the Pole" would've been awesome!

Also, didn't they eventually use the general idea of the Jetsons getting new neighbors?

Ted McIntosh said...

You should still try to make that into a cartoon. It was great.

Sean Wiig said...

"It's always been the future"
That's hilarious! Reminds me of when Fred Flintstone said
"Let's watch the movie 100,00 BC! It's all about life in the future."

Rick Roberts said...

Of course this would have never sold. It's about actually exploring the standard settings and breaking the scared formula.

Rick Roberts said...

I also like the other story ideas, especially with Rod Reckless. Speaking of Kirk Douglas though, I saw a great movie with him and Robert Mitchum called OUT OF THE PAST. I have just been glued to TCM ever since I got DVR.

J C Roberts said...

Did my cleanup of the lineup sketch make it through? I kind of made a mess of the comments trying make the link work.

I just did another one, from my own design. I picked one I hadn't seen you do before to avoid being directly influenced. Here's the link for that (crosses fingers):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/
2364/3787891403_25a8037445_b.jpg

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