Mousetrapped

Mousetrapped #22: Don't You You Anything

If this feels truncated... it is. I'd written a four page comic and realized I didn't like where the rest of it went and lopped it off.

Mousetrapped #20: Tomorrow

Mousetrapped #18: How Thoughtful.

Sorry for the quiet. I needed yesterday to myself.

Mousetrapped #17: Girlie Pictures

Mousetrapped #15: Know the Difference

Mousetrapped #12: So Easy....

Still having technical issues - and now they've speard to my tumblr domain. This week's not goin' great.

Finally, we meet Dinkly Doodle and Weakheart. Dinky and Weakheart were Walter Lantz creations for Bray Studios, preceeding Pete the Pup by a few years. They followed a rather similar format to Pete's later cartoons, though.

Also, if you're interested in watching some of these old shorts, Tommy José Stathes has you covered.

Mousetrapped #11: Always Around

Mousetrapped #10: A Dinner Guess

Oh look! A few original characters.

Mousetrapped #9: An Unexpected Turn

And thus we come to Julis Cat, one of the two protagonists of Disney's early Alice Comedies. I altered his design a bit, combining the designs of an early cat character who likely was the basis for the character and the final design in the Alice series. Why?

Because later Julius was a Felix the Cat clone.

This wasn't by accident, either. Disney redesigned Julius, apparently under duress from his distributor, Margaret Winkler.

If you get the chance to watch the Alice comedies, Juluus is often unhinged. Honestly, calling him a "protagonist" feels like a stretch. He's a complete jerk.

Also appearing in this comic, Little Red Henski - the "villain" of the cartoon, "Alice's Egg Plant." In that cartoon, Alice and Julius run an egg farm (where Julius enjoys cracking a whip at the hens). Little Red Henski is an evil commie who shows up and commits the evil act of... telling the hends they deserve better treatment and unionizing.

Mousetrapped #7: Morality For Rent