Good stuff.

I remember seeing that, different but interesting.

Shinbone Alley was a very unique film. Definitely an impressive movie though. And yes, very furry. :3 DAT FLUFF... so alluring.

bout time u posted lol

Hah! Well, it's been a weird life.

Almost expected u to criticize me for not postingArt

Wow it's good to know that someone else has heard about this movie. I use to watch it when I was a kid. It was a deeper movie than I could comprehend when I was a kid, but a few years ago I got it and watched it with my wife and it renewed my love for it all over again. Another thing that I thought was awesome is that it was a Mel Brooks movie. I know right?

I love the advertising line from the movie poster: "Sophisticated enough for the kids, simple enough for the adults!" I'm only just introduced to the story and I'm curious to learn more about the earlier incarnations, ie: the stage play and the . According to one online commentary the movie was originally on track to be the first X-rated cartoon prior to the release of Fritz the Cat, and that surprised the hell out of me. I can imagine how it might have been, but the activity remaining onscreen seems so timid compared with what such a rating would suggest.

Good artwork, she looks cute and sexy

I never watched the movie in full (not much of a musical fan), but always liked the designs. Really nice work!

Also (likely) in print (or at abebooks.com) -- the several text collections of "Archy and Mehitabel" by Don Marquis (with illustrations by George Herriman, who did the 'Krazy Kat' comic strips).

Don Marquis wrote daily newspaper columns, many of them humorous. One set of re-occurring characters were in the inserted stories supposedly written by Archy, the cockroach living in Marquis' newspaper office. They featured Mehitabel the alley-cat, but other characters, too.

There may be 'Archy and Mehitabel' websites. There is a Wikipedia entry.

I gotta make a trip to the library and read these for myself. As interesting as the film is I expect that there were many compromises made for the film audience expectations over what was contained in the original story.

Parts of her fur look somewhat like clothing, because how it hangs. I love that about this character.

I think the artists really used that look to their advantage as she's a lot more racy in her movement and attributes than anything I was expecting from a film made from this time period.

I'm glad more people are learning about this film! I love how you drew her! :)

Thank you! One of the things that really stuck out for me is the weariness to the character... that been-around-the-block attitude both spoken of in her dialogue but also in her scruffy appearance and the hint of madness in those tiny pupils within the big iris.

i cant place it i might have seen it but i dunno anyways nicely done O.

You can watch the whole film starting here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rji1_Pt73ao

Thanks for the link!

A different era when I saw this.

Nicely done!

Great pic, gotta check Shinbone Alley now.

You captured how rowdy and sassy she can get at times. Also she looks very cool and awesome in the picture. She was part of the reason why I seen "Shinboen Alley" on video and DVD, and part of why it was one of my favorite movies. She was so sexy, so rowdy and funny, but also tend to have some tragic moments as well.

I never thought I would think of anyone would draw Mehitabal from Shinbone Alley, I was prove wrong. It's a perfect drawing of this sassy, rebellious cat.

The style reminds me of Chuck Jones’ work on the Rikki Tikki Tavi animation

I wanna build a fursuit styled after her.

sexy character

I, too, was surprised that I hadn't heard of this movie long ago. I saw it for the first time recently and I was stunned by how good Carol Channing was as Mehitabel. The story, however, really turned me off; I found Mehitabel's too-casual attitude toward her own children to be a major downer.