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An old strip I did featuring a couple characters from my favorite H-B series, Top Cat. The dialog is lifted directly from one of the episodes, with a slight alteration in order to poke a little light-hearted fun at the APA-zine, Rowrbrazzle. I've been a member since the first issue was published in 1984 (see http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1242979/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1141427/ for covers I've done for the APA).
Category All / Comics
Species Housecat
Size 300 x 1240px
File Size 143.2 kB
If you're going to write for Top Cat, sit through a performance of Guys and Dolls. If there's anything I like about GnD it's the highly intellectual way the street riff-raff trying to put on a floating crap game speak. You seem to employ it here in the way Top Cat and Choo-Choo talk. Nice touch.
Thanks! Though I really can't take credit for the dialog, since I lifted it directly from an episode of Top Cat (I forget which one; though I could look it up since I own the DVD box set :) ). The only difference is that, in the original, TC read from a Science Fiction magazine and not a funny-animal APA-zine.
Top Cat holds many fond memories for me. I recall seeing it when it was first broadcast in Prime Time, back when I was a wee joey, so to speak. When end credits rolled, showing TC getting ready to turn in for the night, my parents would point out that "Top Cat is getting ready for bed, and so should you." It worked every time -- and I suspect that was intentional on the part of Messrs. Hanna and Barbera. There are also aspects of city life from the era -- eating ice cream from a dixie cup, city buses, neighborhood shops and beat cops -- that were familiar fixtures of my early childhood in Minneapolis.
The Guys and Dolls dialog is apropos for Top Cat. Another good example of cartoon dialog is in an early scene in the animated feature film Cats Don't Dance. The banter between Sawyer Cat and her boss, Farley Wink, is witty, fast-paced and absolutely priceless.
Top Cat holds many fond memories for me. I recall seeing it when it was first broadcast in Prime Time, back when I was a wee joey, so to speak. When end credits rolled, showing TC getting ready to turn in for the night, my parents would point out that "Top Cat is getting ready for bed, and so should you." It worked every time -- and I suspect that was intentional on the part of Messrs. Hanna and Barbera. There are also aspects of city life from the era -- eating ice cream from a dixie cup, city buses, neighborhood shops and beat cops -- that were familiar fixtures of my early childhood in Minneapolis.
The Guys and Dolls dialog is apropos for Top Cat. Another good example of cartoon dialog is in an early scene in the animated feature film Cats Don't Dance. The banter between Sawyer Cat and her boss, Farley Wink, is witty, fast-paced and absolutely priceless.
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