That's awesome!

...I like the sheer gall they consider Clutch Cargo part of the Golden Age considering the dirt-cheap budget they had that made Hanna Barbera look like it was Disney-quality.

but I digress... this looks pretty excellent, you've perfectly replicated the style and coloring of the cartoon show.

did you get a commission off this, or did you just win a bet?

He paid me for the picture, yes.

Win/win confirmed.

What, Clutch Cargo was awesome animation! They were so good, the mouths on their characters looked REAL!!

I'll assume that was "tongue in cheek". One of the "selling points" to that series was using live filmed mouths for the characters.
Which I always felt gave a rather creepy feel to the entire series.

Bunners

Pixar did a beautiful send up of that style of animation (or lack there of) in an Incredibles short.

Shh!

Clutch Cargo has always creeped me out. D:

Damn look at that chin, you could land an aero plane on that thing!

Needs more Syncro-vox.

Somewhere, I've got a Streamline Pictures business card autographed by Macek. I hadn't realized until recently that he'd died.

Whoa. WHOA. This is great. And I would've totally bought a Clutch Cargo comic book with you on art duties.

*impressed whistle* that has to be the mother of all obscure references....

i seen it....i say "so bad its good"

Oogle oogle to you too!

This is pretty well done though it's almost a shame you didn't super impose the lips over where the mouths should be

I don't know about furry, but it certainly is moldy. That's going back a long way into television history. I have a public domain DVD of some Clutch Cargo that I got for a dollar. It was awful. I had seen Space Angle as a kid and had some vaguely good memories of it, but this stuff was way below even that meager standard. But even Clutch Cargo wasn't the bottom of the animation ladder. Below that was Captain Fathom, also by the same studio. The difference wasn't the technical standards, but the writing. It seems as though they half-way tried to write something decent for Space Angel, but were just grinding out adventure formulas for Clutch. Captain Fathom, though, was utterly surreal. What is the viewer to make of a Polynesians South Sea Island chieftain who speakese perfect in a perfect Brooklyn accent? Or comic Nazi submarine bad guys? Or a war with a Spanish colonial governor with an army of one (who is a poltroon rather than a platoon).

Yet there's worse. I also have a public domain disk of Spunky & Tadpole, the cartoon with the least actual movement, action or plot of any I've ever seen. Watching an animated egg carton in a compost heap would be more interesting.

Thank Heavens Cambria didn't use Syncrovox when they did the Three Stooges Cartoons.

Actually, there are some bits of animation in Spunky and Tadpole, but it's so damned weird it looks like it was made by martians. The "cartoon" with the fewest actual drawings has to be The Big World of Little Adam. There were only two drawings for the whole series! One drawing showed two kids behind a book (so their mouths didn't show) and the other showed them from behind looking at the book. The rest of the show made up of free (usually obsolete) government footage.

Down from that could only be the half-hearted attempt to fake a cartoon for the Howdy Doody Show. From what I read they used drawings on a sheet glued to a stick, and waved them around like hand puppets.

"Race Bannon is a loser, I could whip him any day..."

That's from Jonny Quest. Race also did a very short guest appearance in an early episode of The Venture Brothers that had me in stitches... not that stitches would have done Race any good at that point.

There's more animation on this cover art than in the entire Clutch Cargo series!

Spinner and Paddlefoot! Yaay!

I have yet to see a Clutch Cargo cartoon...are they as cheesily animated as they say?

Check Youtube, it's filled with episodes.

Clutch Cargo is a terrifying parade of nightmares on video.

Jesus this is awesome.

oogle loogle Mkaz!

I saw more than enough Clutch Cargo as a kid to permanently damage my imagination. The one that really fascinated me, though, was a series I only saw a very few episodes of, and which was, if I remember correctly, produced by the same studio: Space Angel, with art designs by the great Alex Toth -- one of his first forays into animation. I never saw much of it -- we didn't get it locally, and I caught on an out-of-town station (which meant, of course, a lot of snow and static as well) -- but it hypnotized my developing young mind with images of space stations and adventurous space flight.

Clutch WHO? :3

I see this and It reaaaaaly makes me wanna photoshop photographic lips on them