#irontail

Decided to try my hand in drawing Mr. Irontail. I just think he’s neat. Will likely get better at drawing him in due time

"I shall hide these eggs where you'll never find them again."

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Imao want to doodle Irontail cause he’s fun to draw X’D

In this Easter classic, Vincent plays the role of a villainous rabbit by the name of January Q. Irontail. He is the scourge of the otherwise peaceful April Valley: a magical place that is to Easter Bunnies what the North Pole is to Santa Claus. It’s revealed that, years ago, this black bunny had his tail skated off by a careless child. He had it replaced with an iron bell, and this – apparently – is the reason he has become “a terrible, wicked, nasty rabbit” by the time the story begins. Irontail is the sworn nemesis of the titular Peter Cottontail (played by Shaggy himself, Casey Kasem); when he learns that Peter is about to become Chief Easter Bunny, he plots a scheme to take the role from him, so that he can remake the holiday in his own horrible image. Funnily enough…Irontail actually succeeds! A combination of Peter’s own faults and Irontail’s trickery leads to Irontail ending up the one who gets the promotion. However, thanks to the help of the magician Seymour Sassafrass, and a caterpillar named Anton (both played by Danny Kaye), Peter is able to use a time machine called the Yestermorrowbile (yes, really) to try and fix things. Irontail is wise to Peter’s own plan, however, so he proceeds to do everything in his power to prevent Peter from reversing things, which leads to a chase across the calendar into every single holiday. I’m just going to come out and say it right now: while Vincent Price was known for being a hammy actor (even by his own admission), this is by far the single most over-the-top performance I think he EVER gave. This is Price’s equivalent to Jeremy Irons in “Dungeons & Dragons,” or Tim Curry in “Freakazoid!” It’s a performance so completely and utterly INSANE that it becomes absolutely spellbinding in its wild intensity. Price isn’t just chewing the scenery behind the microphone, he is ripping it into bloody chunks and gulping them down whole. I am astonished the studio he was recording in didn’t just EXPLODE from the sheer level of lunacy he puts into every single SYLLABLE he utters throughout this whole special. It’s largely due to Price’s zany yet diabolical performance that Irontail becomes as memorable as he does. He’s easily one of my favorite villains from the Rankin/Bass canon: how many other Easter specials give you a villain who makes allusions to Poe (and kind of looks like a rabbity version of the guy, now that I think about it), and lets out peals of maniacal laughter while roaring at the top of his lungs, “THOSE EGGS ARE DONE FOR!!!” One way you can tell what Price did for the role is by looking at the (awful) sequel-by-the-same-name, which came out in 2005. By then, of course, Price was long gone. So, who did they get to play the role of the utterly demented bunny? Bond himself, Roger Moore, who plays the character with totally cool and calm sophistication. Normally, I would be okay with this, but in the case of Irontail? NOPE. YOU FAIL. Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 17!

sloppy doodles 

I want to see somebody recreate Irontail’s goth Easter, with chocolates shaped like tarantulas and octopi and everything.