#harvey famous cartoons

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Caption: Spooky's own BOO scared him out of the old house.

Booklet Description: BOOO-OOO-OOO!! The Sooper-dooper boo hit the mirror and bounced back right at Spooky. "Yee-eee!" Spooky screamed as he saw the fearsome ghost before him. He left the house so fast his bed sheet didn't even flap. Casper and Billy laughed so hard they could hardly stand. "From now on, I'll take a good look at anything that scares me before I run away," said Billy. "That's a good thing to have learned," said Casper. "And I think Spooky has finally found out that being scared is no fun." But nothing could keep the irrepressible Spooky down for long. He finally realized what had happened. "Wow, I'm sure some spook," he said happily. "I'lI soitenly have to thank Casper for showin' me how scarey my sooper-dooper boo really is!" And, proudly, off he flew on another scare raid.

Brand: View-Master Packet Title: Casper's Ghostland Reel Title: Casper and Spooky Reel Subtitle: in "The Haunted House" Reel Number: B 5451, Reel One Reel Edition: A Image Number: 7 Date: 1969

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I’ll Give You A Bad Fright “Sure Cure” (1954)

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Batman is back with a vengeance. Three years after HBO Max and Cartoon Network first announced Batman: Caped Crusader — the adult-oriented animated series that was eventually canceled by the since-renamed Max streaming service, only to then be picked up at Prime Video — the new Batman TV show is about to hit the small screen. Set in 1940s Gotham City, Caped Crusader is described as "a reimagining of the Batman mythology through the visionary lens" of executive producers Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond), Matt Reeves (The Batman and The Penguin), and J.J. Abrams (Alias and Lost).

"We are beyond excited to be working together to bring this character back, to tell engrossing new stories in Gotham City," Timm, Reeves, and Abrams said when announcing the series in 2021. "The series will be thrilling, cinematic and evocative of Batman's noir roots, while diving deeper into the psychology of these iconic characters. We cannot wait to share this new world."

Below, ComicBook is shining the Bat-Signal on everything we know so far about Batman: Caped Crusader, including the voice cast, release date, and the rogues who will populate the first solo Batman animated series in more than a decade.

Where Can I Watch Batman: Caped Crusader?

To watch Batman: Caped Crusader on Amazon's Prime Video, you'll need either a Prime Video subscription ($8.99 per month with ads, or $11.98/mo for ad-free) or an Amazon Prime membership ($14.99 per month with Prime Video ads, or $17.98/mo with ad-free Prime Video).

Batman: Caped Crusader Release Date

All episodes of Batman: Caped Crusader will premiere Thursday, August 1st, on Amazon Prime Video.

How Many Episodes Is Batman: Caped Crusader?

Batman: Caped Crusader season 1 consists of 10 episodes. In 2023, Prime Video announced a two-season order for the new series.

What Is Batman: Caped Crusader About?

The official description: "Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human — the Batman. His one-man crusade attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications."

Who Voices Batman in the Batman: Caped Crusader Cast?

The Batman: Caped Crusader voice cast includes Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass) in the title role as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets) as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Jamie Chung (Gotham) as Harley Quinn/Dr. Harleen Quinzel, and Diedrich Bader — a DC veteran whose credits include episodes of Batman Beyond, 2006's The Batman, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and the Max adult animated series Harley Quinn — as Two-Face/Harvey Dent.

Announced cast members in as-yet-unrevealed roles include Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Toby Stephens (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Reid Scott (Venom), Dan Donohue (For All Mankind), Gary Anthony Williams (Hailey's on It!), Jason Watkins (The Crown), John DiMaggio (Futurama), Krystal Joy Brown (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), Michelle C. Bonilla (9-1-1: Lone Star), Eric Morgan Stuart (Fallout 4), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), and Minnie Driver (The Witcher: Blood Origin).

Batman: Caped Crusader Villains

A cast announcement video revealed Linklater's Batman voice and the Dark Knight's rogue's gallery: The Penguin, Catwoman, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, the pyromaniac Firebug, Natalia Knight (in the comics, a reformed career criminal with photosensitive skin known as Nocturna, the mistress of the night), the phantom criminal called Gentleman Ghost, and Clayface (the Golden Age Clayface of the 1940s was Basil Karlo, a once-famous character actor and makeup expert turned costumed killer). Caped Crusader reimagines Dr. Harleen Quinzel as Asian American — and Bruce Wayne's psychologist. Here, her alter-ego as the jester-costumed Harley Quinn is independent from the Joker, who is noticeably absent from the roundup of Batman characters.

Batman: Caped Crusader Characters

Batman – A cold, remorseless avenger of evil, seemingly more machine than man. Forged in the fire of tragedy, every fiber of his being is dedicated to the eradication of crime. (The Batman suit is influenced by the character's earliest appearances in Detective Comics, by creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger, with longer, narrow ears, a collared cape, and with black gloves rather than the original purple.)

Bruce Wayne - To the public at large, Bruce Wayne is a shallow dilettante, apparently wasting his parents' vast fortune on frivolous pursuits and hedonistic pleasures. In fact, he's an elaborate facade, carefully constructed to divert attention from his activities as Batman.

Selina Kyle / "Catwoman" – Selena Kyle is a blithe and pampered heiress whose family lost their fortune after her father was imprisoned for embezzlement. Despite having the silver spoon yanked from her mouth, Selina refuses to quit living in the lap of luxury and becomes Catwoman as a "fun" way to maintain her lavish lifestyle.

Dr. Harleen Quinzel / "Harley Quinn" – Despite a personable and bubbly demeanor, Dr. Harleen Quinzel is a brilliant psychiatrist who treats some of Gotham's elite. However, as Harley Quinn, she is a different person, entirely. A creepy, quiet, calculating menace who secretly dispenses her twisted justice to the truly despicable among her elite clientele.

Commissioner Jim Gordon – Former beat cop close to retirement, Gordon was hired to play along with the corrupt system and run out the clock till he can draw a pension. But they've sorely underestimated Jim Gordon. His unassailable character brings him into conflict with dirty cops and crooked politicians, alike. Not to mention, he has to reckon with a deranged vigilante beating up Gotham's criminals.

Clayface – Thanks to his "unique" facial features, screen actor Basil Karlo has been forever typecast as a B-movie heavy. Frustrated by the limitations his appearance put on both his career and personal life (he fell hopelessly in love with his co-star), Karlo turned to an experimental serum that promised to change his face. However, not only does this serum ultimately disfigure his face, but it ruptures the last of his sanity – creating the tragic, vengeance seeking villain, Clayface.

Batman: Caped Crusader Creators

Batman: Caped Crusader comes from Warner Bros. Animation (My Adventures with Superman, Bat-Family), Abrams' Bad Robot Productions (Lovecraft Country, the Star Trek films) and Reeves' 6th & Idaho (2022's The Batman, The Batman – Part II). Along with Abrams, Reeves and Timm, Batman: Caped Crusader executive producers include head writer Ed Brubaker (DC's Batman comic, Gotham Central), James Tucker (Justice League Unlimited), Daniel Pipski (The Penguin), Rachel Rusch Rich (Castle Rock), and Sam Register (Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One and Part Two).

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Birthdays 2.26

Beer Birthdays

Gabriel Sedlmayr II (1811)

Frederick C. Miller (1906)

Art Larrance (1944)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Tex Avery; cartoon director (1908)

Johnny Cash; singer, songwriter (1932)

Jackie Gleason; actor, comedian (1916)

Plato; philosopher (428 BCE)

Theodore Sturgeon; writer (1918)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Alda; actor (1914)

Grover Cleveland Alexander; Philadelphia Phillies P (1887)

Erykah Badu; singer (1971)

William Baumol; economist (1922)

Michael Bolton; pop singer (1953)

Godfrey Cambridge; actor (1933)

"Buffalo" Bill Cody; scout, entertainer (1846)

Honore Daumier; artist (1808)

"Fats" Domino; singer, pianist (1928)

Herbert Henry Dow; chemical manufacturer (1866)

Bill Duke; actor (1943)

Kevin Dunn; actor (1956)

Marshall Faulk; St. Louis Rams RB (1973)

William Frawley; actor (1887)

Jennifer Grant; actor (1966)

Victor Hugo; writer (1802)

Betty Hutton; actor (1921)

John Harvey Kellogg; dietician, doctor (1852)

Kara Monaco; model (1983)

Teresa Palmer; actor (1986)

Tony Randall; actor (1920)

Mitch Ryder; rock singer (1945)

Levi Strauss; inventor (1829)

Jenny Thompson; swimmer (1973)

Elihu Vedder; artist, illustrator (1836)

Wenceslas of Bohemia; ruler (1361)

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Fleischer Studios staff from 1930-1931

Vet Anderson, Andy Engman, and Ed Rehberg were formerly Fables/Van Beuren men who later moved to the west coast

Grim Natwick, James “Shamus” Culhane, Bernie Wolf, Al Eugster, & Art Turkisher all ended up going to Ub Iwerks before the other four men moved to other studios (mainly Disney)

William Henning was the inbetweening supervisor before Edith Vernick replaced him

Sam Stimson worked for Bill Nolan’s studio in New Jersey during the silent ages

Al Windley was a Harrison-Gould camera operator

Nick Tafuri, Bill Turner, Joe Stultz, Seymour Kneitel, Isadore Sparber, and Myron Waldman became Famous Studios regulars (with Seymour and Izzy also being supervisors for the studio as well)

H. Ritterband and Louis McCormick were camera operators who later moved to famous studios

Charles Schettler. Vera Coleman, Ruth Fleischer, and Edith Vernick were Inkwell studio veterans

Frank Paiker would later do camerawork for Hanna Barbera

Ted Sears later became a driving force in Disney’s story department

Sadie Friedlander later married and became Sadie Bodin, she got fired from Van Beuren during the time Burt Gillett reigned on the studio

George Cannata and Reuben Timmins (R. Timinsky here) worked in different studios Coast to Coast

Nelly Sanborn was the head of the timing department and later move on to famous studios somewhere into the ink & paint department under the name of Nelly Sanborn-Greene

Ben Shenkman would later become a prolific caricaturist/character designer for cartoons as well as assistant animator & animator

Harvey Eisenberg, Saul Kessler, & Al Geiss later became associated with TerryToons before moving to other studios (Eisenberg becoming a prominent layout artist/character designer for MGM’s Tom & Jerry and Al Geiss was involved with the Screen Gems Studio during the 40’s)

Milt Platkin would change his name to Kin Platt and become a noted story artist/scriptwriter. He’s noted for writing almost all of the Top Cat episodes for Hanna-Barbera

and Mae Schwartz was Dave Fleischer’s secretary

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Cartoon: Hep Cat Symphony, 1949 - Noveltoons

“Hep Cat Symphony” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by Seymour Kneitel, written by Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer, and produced by Famous Studios. Noveltoons is a series of cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures’ Famous Studios from 1943 to the end of the studio during 1967. The series was known for bringing the characters from Harvey Comics to…

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The Evolution of Comics: From Panels to Pop Culture

Comics, or as collectors like to call them, "books," are publications filled with sequential art panels that tell stories, often featuring a mix of dialogue (in those iconic speech bubbles) and narrative text. Whether you're into superhero sagas or indie slices of life, comics are a unique way to tell stories.

The British Roots 🌍

The comic scene kicked off in Britain with Comic Cuts (1890-1953) and earlier with Ally Sloper's Half Holiday in 1884. These early British comics were published around the same time as the darker, edgier penny dreadfuls and the satirical Punch magazine (which gave us the term "cartoon" as we know it today).

Comics Hit the U.S. 🇺🇸

In the U.S., the first American-style comic book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics, dropped in 1933. It reprinted older comic strips from newspapers, setting the stage for modern comic storytelling. Initially, "comic" referred to humorous strips, but this quickly changed to include a variety of genres like action, fantasy, and sci-fi.

Japan Takes Over the Comic Scene 🇯🇵

Japan holds the crown for the largest comic market—yep, we're talking about manga. By 1995, the manga industry was valued at a jaw-dropping ¥586.4 billion (around $6–7 billion). Fast forward to 2020, and manga hit an all-time high of ¥612.5 billion, fueled by a surge in digital sales.

Structure: What Makes a Comic?

Creating a comic isn’t as easy as it looks. Each page layout, the size and placement of panels, speech bubbles, and even the colors are key to telling a story. From writing and drawing to coloring, every step matters. And in the U.S., we usually refer to ongoing comics as comic books while standalone stories are called graphic novels.

The Evolution of American Comics

American comics date back to the 1840s with the publication of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. However, the first modern comic book format emerged in the 1930s with Funnies on Parade. The release of Superman in 1938 officially kicked off the Golden Age of Comics. Superheroes took over the scene, becoming the cultural icons we know today.

Then came the Silver Age in the 1950s, giving us Marvel’s Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, we saw the Bronze Age, with more complex storylines and darker themes. Today, we're living in what some call the Modern Age of comics, which started in the mid-1980s and continues today.

The Comics Code Controversy 📜

In the 1950s, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham went on a crusade against comics, claiming they were corrupting young minds. His book, Seduction of the Innocent, led to a Senate investigation and the formation of the Comics Code Authority, which censored the industry until the 1970s.

Underground & Alternative Comics 🚫✨

By the late 1960s, the underground comix scene exploded. These comics, often sold in head shops or record stores, broke all the rules of mainstream comics. They featured rebellious, often explicit content that touched on sex, politics, and counterculture. Creators like R. Crumb with Zap Comix were leading the charge.

By the late 1970s, the rise of comic book specialty stores made room for "alternative comics" to thrive. Some, like Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, were raw, real-life stories. Others experimented with style and format, pushing the boundaries of what comics could be.

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I'd Rather Watch Tom and Jerry in New York Than Herman and Katnip Anyday!

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Herman and Katnip Belongs To Alfred Harvey, Famous Studios, Paramount Cartoon Studios, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Paramount Global, Harvey Comics, Harvey Films, Harvey Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company, Classic Media, LLC, DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation

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#OkKo #OkKoBrandon #johndoegame #ShirtChangingGimmick #MyThoughts

I wish my art was really good I would draw Brandon from Ok Ko and John Doe swapping shirts with different messages on them.

I love the both of them.

The Hanna-Barbera Shirt Tales I remember seeing this cartoon on Boomerang once.

Their shirt message changes also which is cool.

1:55-2:32

Images not mine but link is there.

Shirt Tales: The Complete Series 3:00 preview clip - YouTube

Now I want a fanart of all the Shirt Tales animals, John Doe, and Brandon from Ok Ko just chilling with different shirt messages on their shirts.

Also drawing Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House as a Realtor.

If Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House was a Realtor he would be a seed bearer one.

Oh the puns.

Thinking about making a infected Realtor based of bear and have him be the main singer of the Nosy Neighbors band with Jack Black as the voice canon.

This infected Realtor having a thicc male body type Realtor that is nice and doesn't eat people.

Thinking about fleshing out these weird houses in the images into Infected Realtors.

Maybe making them be in a band called the Nosy Neighbors.

Basically this.

Scott pilgrim vs the world, WE ARE!! Sex Bob-omb!! 1 2 3 4!!! (youtube.com)

Also my sitcom of Infected Realtors is getting huge dude.

Images not mine but links are there.

OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes - Brandon's Parent's Cars - YouTube

Bear in the big blue house intro - YouTube

Bear (Bear in the Big Blue House) | Pooh's Adventures Wiki | Fandom

If the Big Blue House was a Infected Realtor.

Has a bear fungmammal that is mutualism and the infected realtor is a seed bearer.

The bear fungmammal is female.

I might call this infected thicc male lead singer Hovy Guasu Óga.

(Which is Big Blue and house in Guarani.)

But his nickname is Harvey Blue and is famous for his Blues music before he got a band the music thing was his hobby before sprouted being infected.

His business cards have music notes on them and has the numbers 5267 the word Jams in telephone numbers.

The female bear mutualism fungmammal is called Honeybunz.

Honeybunz is a cinnamon mixed with a sticky bun bear shaped creature so a mimic that is mimicking another thing.

Harvey Blue is nice and doesn't eat people but eats normal foods and rarely eats inanimate object unless he plays his guitar or a instrument then does the smashing thing to later consume to clean up the mess.

Infected Realtor's eat human like by the lure body that travels to their house body to consume or just consume like a human would and eats the normal way by the floor or any part of the house.

His favorite dessert mostly anything but if a fan gives him a sticky or honey bun he will eat it in a area where Honeybunz isn't there because he thinks it's weird.

But Honeybunz doesn't mind and likes to eat human shaped gingerbread cookies and gummies that are human shaped.

If Hovy Guasu Óga or Harvey Blue finds out a Infected or a Non Infected Realtor infiltrated his venue to buyer hunt then he would politely ask them why they were here and where are their backstage pass are.

If they don't have a pass he will politely ask the intruder to leave and if they don't heed his warning then he will get some of his band members to rough the intruder up then toss them out while putting a banned picture of the intruder.

Each banned person gets their real name with a joke names written underneath the mugshot picture.

I wanted a gif of Brandon from Ok Ko with his shirt changing.

https://gifmaker.me/video-to-gif/viewimage/20240928-07-FHyUycpLoGM0SLbm-tkxbFJ-hnet

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Essay by Alexander Chee; Photograph by Ryan McGinley; Styling by Shawn Lakin

Who was I imitating when I was 11, dressed in my grandmother’s old nightgown, telling my cousins they should call me Penelope? Who was I imitating when I began to sneak into my mother’s bathroom to experiment with her makeup? It felt powerful to see her alter the color of her lips or to darken the edges around her eyes and eyelashes. I wanted that power too—the command over someone’s attention. I used to think I was alone in such experiments until I wrote about them and learned that I was not.

Lately, I have been trying to think of when I first saw someone in drag. Was it Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing a duet in the musical White Christmas? Or Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria? Barbra Streisand in Yentl? Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show? Or Jim Bailey as Barbra Streisand, also on The Carol Burnett Show? I loved the variety shows of the 1970s and ’80s, and a performer in drag was not an unusual treat. And yet maybe it was my father dressed as a fortune teller, with one hoop earring and a kerchief on his head, reading palms in a tent for the Portland, Maine, chapter of the Rotary’s fundraiser.

Robert Preston and Julie Andrews in the movie Victor/Victoria, circa 1982 Hulton Archive//Getty Images

British comedian Benny Hill, 1954 Express//Getty Images

My first drag-queen story hour was probably The Benny Hill Show. For those of you too young to know, he was a British comedian whose shows ran in the U.S. late at night. I watched the show with my dad, and it was a special treat, happening only on the nights when he’d let me stay up with him to laugh at these British people and their jokes about sexism, sex, and social gaffes. If I’m remembering correctly, this was among the things that came to us in Maine in the ’70s or early ’80s with cable, most likely on some PBS channel.

Drag of this kind was uncontroversial and all around me back then. As a kid, I was watching a lot of men and women in gowns on television. We all were. It was mainstream. And we loved it. Most of us, maybe even more now than back then, still do.

I knew it was meant to be humor if someone I thought of as a man appeared dressed as a woman. That or an emergency—maybe both. Bugs Bunny, for example, when dressed in drag, was trying to outwit Elmer Fudd, the hunter, who was hoping to “kill the wabbit.” That famous Merrie Melodies short is also a tribute to Wagner, with Bugs in drag on the back of a horse, wearing pink eye shadow, a blond wig of braids, and some very sexy falsies that look out of place in a Warner Bros. cartoon. Elmer honks his way through an anglicized version of Siegfried’s aria, complete with the trills of an orchestra, calling Bugs “Bwoon Hilda” and asking him to be his love. Bugs bats his eyelashes at Elmer, and it is as beautiful a memory of entertainment in my childhood as I can remember. Like the best satire, it is great in part because it is sincere.

Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman in a scene from The Carol Burnett Show in 1973 CBS Photo Archive//Getty Images

ragedy comes, as it must in opera, when Bugs’s helmet and wig fall off after he is dipped too intensely by Elmer. Plonk, plonk, plonk goes the helmet, down the stairs of the temple of their love. Bugs pulls Elmer’s own “magic helmet” down over his eyes and escapes. The tunic with falsies flies into the wind, like the ghost of the beauty we saw moments before. Elmer rouses a Wagnerian storm to kill the rabbit as revenge, but only when he sees Bugs, flung down on a rock, under a single dripping rain-wet pink flower, does he repent and gather him into his arms, sobbing as he carries Bugs away. At which point Bugs reveals himself to be alive and says, “Well, what did you expect in an opera, a happy ending?”

Watching it again now in the 21st century, during a manufactured moral panic over drag, I think the lesson of “What’s Opera, Doc?” isn’t that we shouldn’t do drag. Instead, it’s that we shouldn’t kill and that we should love as we feel necessary. I feel like this is always the message of drag, and if that’s dangerous, well, what is it dangerous to? And isn’t the call to love what’s really dangerous—risking it all for love? I think we know it is. It took me a decade at least after first seeing that animated story to learn that “What’s Opera, Doc?” describes the panic defense men have used after killing trans women and gender-nonconforming people for a very long time.

A lobby card from “What’s Opera, Doc?” from 1957LMPC//Getty Images

As Bugs Bunny knew, gender is theater, whatever else it is. And as one of Neil Gaiman’s characters in a Miracleman comic book said this spring, offhandedly, gender is “a choice, not an obligation.” The people who need your gender choices to affirm their own—for you to obey something like a legally binding contract you never signed, given out at birth—are not any more secure once they’ve obtained this obedience from you. Theirs is a vast and unfeeling appetite for reassurance, and it must not be given room to grow.

Barbra Streisand filming Yentl in 1982Hulton Archive//Getty Images

I was raised with drag, by drag. We all were. By comedians, by entertainers, by brave friends—the ones who were afraid and still did what they had to do anyway. I am thinking of a friend in high school, a punk boy who was the first man I knew to wear makeup out to the clubs and even to school. I longed to be as beautiful as him, but mostly as brave, and when I remember the power of his beauty, it wasn’t that he didn’t care about what people thought of his choices—it was that he did. He was hoping to confront their disapproval, look by look by look. When I think back to those times before, I remember how it felt like crawling along the edge of a cliff. I know it’s where the enemies of drag want to go with all of these threats.

Do you really want child protective services called by a “concerned neighbor” if you let your children paint their nails or yours in some way considered inappropriate to gender? Do you want librarians living in terror? The freedom you feel now to sit in the sun as children wear tutus and butterfly wings, glitter on their cheeks, regardless of gender, dancing and singing—that was bought in part by a drag queen you’ve never met, in a city you’ll never visit.



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Caption: "Go on in, Billy, the ghost won't hurt you."

Booklet Description: "Stop, stop--I won't hurt you." Casper grabbed the boy's shirtail and stopped him. "Guh-guh-golly," gasped the boy too tired to run away. "It's another guh-guh-ghost!" "I'm sorry you were scared," Casper smiled. "I want to be friends, honest!" Finally the boy, whose name was Billy, smiled back shyly. "Why, you're a little ghost," Billy exclaimed. "But there's a big, mean, ugly ghost in the house." Casper giggled. "Oh, that was just Spooky. He's not any bigger than I am. Come on! I'll show you." Billy walked bravely up to the black doorway, but then he stopped. It took ten minutes of pushing and coaxing by Casper to get him inside, and then he stopped again right inside the door.

Brand: View-Master Packet Title: Casper's Ghostland Reel Title: Casper and Spooky Reel Subtitle: in "The Haunted House" Reel Number: B 5451, Reel One Reel Edition: A Image Number: 2 Date: 1969

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Essay by Alexander Chee; Photograph by Ryan McGinley; Styling by Shawn Lakin

Who was I imitating when I was 11, dressed in my grandmother’s old nightgown, telling my cousins they should call me Penelope? Who was I imitating when I began to sneak into my mother’s bathroom to experiment with her makeup? It felt powerful to see her alter the color of her lips or to darken the edges around her eyes and eyelashes. I wanted that power too—the command over someone’s attention. I used to think I was alone in such experiments until I wrote about them and learned that I was not.

Lately, I have been trying to think of when I first saw someone in drag. Was it Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing a duet in the musical White Christmas? Or Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria? Barbra Streisand in Yentl? Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show? Or Jim Bailey as Barbra Streisand, also on The Carol Burnett Show? I loved the variety shows of the 1970s and ’80s, and a performer in drag was not an unusual treat. And yet maybe it was my father dressed as a fortune teller, with one hoop earring and a kerchief on his head, reading palms in a tent for the Portland, Maine, chapter of the Rotary’s fundraiser.

Robert Preston and Julie Andrews in the movie Victor/Victoria, circa 1982 Hulton Archive//Getty Images

British comedian Benny Hill, 1954 Express//Getty Images

My first drag-queen story hour was probably The Benny Hill Show. For those of you too young to know, he was a British comedian whose shows ran in the U.S. late at night. I watched the show with my dad, and it was a special treat, happening only on the nights when he’d let me stay up with him to laugh at these British people and their jokes about sexism, sex, and social gaffes. If I’m remembering correctly, this was among the things that came to us in Maine in the ’70s or early ’80s with cable, most likely on some PBS channel.

Drag of this kind was uncontroversial and all around me back then. As a kid, I was watching a lot of men and women in gowns on television. We all were. It was mainstream. And we loved it. Most of us, maybe even more now than back then, still do.

I knew it was meant to be humor if someone I thought of as a man appeared dressed as a woman. That or an emergency—maybe both. Bugs Bunny, for example, when dressed in drag, was trying to outwit Elmer Fudd, the hunter, who was hoping to “kill the wabbit.” That famous Merrie Melodies short is also a tribute to Wagner, with Bugs in drag on the back of a horse, wearing pink eye shadow, a blond wig of braids, and some very sexy falsies that look out of place in a Warner Bros. cartoon. Elmer honks his way through an anglicized version of Siegfried’s aria, complete with the trills of an orchestra, calling Bugs “Bwoon Hilda” and asking him to be his love. Bugs bats his eyelashes at Elmer, and it is as beautiful a memory of entertainment in my childhood as I can remember. Like the best satire, it is great in part because it is sincere.

Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman in a scene from The Carol Burnett Show in 1973 CBS Photo Archive//Getty Images

ragedy comes, as it must in opera, when Bugs’s helmet and wig fall off after he is dipped too intensely by Elmer. Plonk, plonk, plonk goes the helmet, down the stairs of the temple of their love. Bugs pulls Elmer’s own “magic helmet” down over his eyes and escapes. The tunic with falsies flies into the wind, like the ghost of the beauty we saw moments before. Elmer rouses a Wagnerian storm to kill the rabbit as revenge, but only when he sees Bugs, flung down on a rock, under a single dripping rain-wet pink flower, does he repent and gather him into his arms, sobbing as he carries Bugs away. At which point Bugs reveals himself to be alive and says, “Well, what did you expect in an opera, a happy ending?”

Watching it again now in the 21st century, during a manufactured moral panic over drag, I think the lesson of “What’s Opera, Doc?” isn’t that we shouldn’t do drag. Instead, it’s that we shouldn’t kill and that we should love as we feel necessary. I feel like this is always the message of drag, and if that’s dangerous, well, what is it dangerous to? And isn’t the call to love what’s really dangerous—risking it all for love? I think we know it is. It took me a decade at least after first seeing that animated story to learn that “What’s Opera, Doc?” describes the panic defense men have used after killing trans women and gender-nonconforming people for a very long time.

A lobby card from “What’s Opera, Doc?” from 1957LMPC//Getty Images

As Bugs Bunny knew, gender is theater, whatever else it is. And as one of Neil Gaiman’s characters in a Miracleman comic book said this spring, offhandedly, gender is “a choice, not an obligation.” The people who need your gender choices to affirm their own—for you to obey something like a legally binding contract you never signed, given out at birth—are not any more secure once they’ve obtained this obedience from you. Theirs is a vast and unfeeling appetite for reassurance, and it must not be given room to grow.

Barbra Streisand filming Yentl in 1982Hulton Archive//Getty Images

I was raised with drag, by drag. We all were. By comedians, by entertainers, by brave friends—the ones who were afraid and still did what they had to do anyway. I am thinking of a friend in high school, a punk boy who was the first man I knew to wear makeup out to the clubs and even to school. I longed to be as beautiful as him, but mostly as brave, and when I remember the power of his beauty, it wasn’t that he didn’t care about what people thought of his choices—it was that he did. He was hoping to confront their disapproval, look by look by look. When I think back to those times before, I remember how it felt like crawling along the edge of a cliff. I know it’s where the enemies of drag want to go with all of these threats.

Do you really want child protective services called by a “concerned neighbor” if you let your children paint their nails or yours in some way considered inappropriate to gender? Do you want librarians living in terror? The freedom you feel now to sit in the sun as children wear tutus and butterfly wings, glitter on their cheeks, regardless of gender, dancing and singing—that was bought in part by a drag queen you’ve never met, in a city you’ll never visit.

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Famous Assassin Recipes

Tanacharison: The filterless cigarette, a Lucky Strike, enjoyed with a gin martini. Two shots of gin, fill with seltzer, and enjoy a Lucky Strike on a brass lighter, a zippo. For VC nai poon. That's the lady. He always knew where the next war would be.

John Wilkes Booth: Take the Snake, a prison rapist, and the Loser, a bisexual informant, and switch them, with a peanut butter sandwich, Skippy, no jelly, bleached bread, Wonderbread, in high sun, with a Marlboro Red at the same time; remark, "flavor country", to the Snake, your mind's eye of the Loser. The club goes all the way back home, and there's a witch trial, on slavery.

Albert Whisker: Use a three pointer, a 3.5 shot glass, the Cantonese shot, to take a half shotter of vodka, cheap stuff, and a half shotter of orange juice, expensive, campus variety, and hammer a shot, before you snort amphetamines. That's the stuff, to get you going, to understand Chinese history. It doesn't go away, unless you've seen Disturbed in concert. Back in that day, we called him Bojangles; or maybe Scott Joplin, or Sammy Davis Junior.

Lee Harvey Oswald: Get a Marlboro Red, some nitrate car battery stomped coca (cocaine powder on cut, "pure", a CIA blend, nitrate phosphate, for the erection, or the transgender juices, if you prefer the ladies, for the ladies), and take a Bazooka Joe pellet. Demonstrate the technique, to the target, "the head crab", someone stealing a drug dealer's job to lay you, as a Freemasonic Ring (Mister President), to dab the powder from the gum, on the cigarette, then smoke it backwards, on the filter (I'm just a paddy, a poor Irish sailor). They'll need crack rock to get out, but only if they trust Jack "Hardy" Ruby, Charlie Manson (old Mister Lincoln, "he stinks", then you're shut down, the entire campus; you wrote 'nigger' in the bathroom, Lincoln was a drug dealer this time, 'again').

Martin Luther King Jr.: Order a beef tarte, the cheeseburger empanada, from anything labeled 'King', and if they have the tres luches, you've alerted them that "James Earl Ray", is in the area. A personal delivery, will be made to a black Senator's house, to see if you've received a coin, from the Nordic Lodge, the rival to the Lounge, the old athlete's singing joint. If it's Joe Frazier's Lounge, you win; you've just caught the last show to Delaware, Joe Biden is President. Like the King family wanted, a French President, since 1935 (improved traffic resistance, the last place besides the bus they can't get you; the King family, is the cops, they run the restaurant).

Sirhan Sirhan: If you have a charcoal grill, strike up a conversation, with a man with your feet. If he's a propane man, that doesn't know how to cook, he'll have your exact stumble, having studied you, to build a healthy intestine. Your mother, will retain cooking recipes, for his family's secrets, on cartoon anti-Semitism, a fat man, for the proper distribution of diet on a budget; for all involved, including you, the stock of frozen foods non-necessary to eat, to get you "off the bucket", and into proper ordering, fifteen dollars on a two dollar "squib", the fees and tip, on a twenty dollar meal, with an extra meal left over, for a three day "spree".

George Jung: "Boston" George Jung, wants you to know, that it is inappropriate, to drink whiskey, without Worcestershire sauce, hiding the steak's sauce, with a Bloody Mary. To beat AA protocols, mix the Worcestershire, in your home "furnace", the cabinet, with Jim Beam, the preferred whiskey of the CIA range division, the overweight cop. If you know a cop, who has ever been overweight, and he doesn't know he's a cop, give him a flask of Jim Beam (not a "fifth", the jeopardy round, you've just qualified as airman, you get free LSD). He'll figure everything out. But he's watching you, very closely, because your girlfriend, likes them big; you're listening to Boston George.

OJ Simpson: The bowels can be purged, through a heart seizure, a rare term of logic, invented by Jake Charlebois, at Minnesota State University, on the professional college team. The posture as Hitler, as an American quarterback aside, a bowl of whole milk, a full box of Cheerios, and a Friendly's Sundae, in the tin (now a plastic or paper cup, since the advance by OJ), can be used; eating the entire box and all the milk, then the peanut butter Friendly's Sundae, to seize the heart clamps, before the pain and agony passes, and a Marlboro Red is enjoyed, OJ's choice to retire from football to get his Wheaties Box (the first of its kind). The bowel chlonic, will unblock the hemorrhages in the liver, unless you die; you were eating too much mayonnaise (you worked food services, and are in danger of colon surgery; sorry, kid, not for the big leagues, bagging groceries).

David Charlebois: A Chinese sausage, can be enjoyed on a George Foreman grill; normally lethal, "red sausage", unless on charcoal, an easy cause of trichinosis, unless rigid cooking times are observed; impossible for the mentally ill. The press grill, however, guarantees a succulent taste, and a slow purge of the insides, the sweatest black meat you can afford. Any sausage, is delicious on a Foreman, but not like red sausage, the Chinese sausage; a boneless spare rib, lethal to Jews out of paranoia, but just delicate enough to please a Hebrew man's stomach if char broiled in a press machine. Be aware, if your room mate has the Foreman, and won't eat it, he's a traitor. Take his story of his background, and recommend it to a writer claiming Lutheran, as marked '88', Millard Fillmore; a history teacher, in politics.

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Birthdays 2.26

Beer Birthdays

Gabriel Sedlmayr II (1811)

Frederick C. Miller (1906)

Art Larrance (1944)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Tex Avery; cartoon director (1908)

Johnny Cash; singer, songwriter (1932)

Jackie Gleason; actor, comedian (1916)

Plato; philosopher (428 BCE)

Theodore Sturgeon; writer (1918)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Alda; actor (1914)

Grover Cleveland Alexander; Philadelphia Phillies P (1887)

Erykah Badu; singer (1971)

William Baumol; economist (1922)

Michael Bolton; pop singer (1953)

Godfrey Cambridge; actor (1933)

"Buffalo" Bill Cody; scout, entertainer (1846)

Honore Daumier; artist (1808)

"Fats" Domino; singer, pianist (1928)

Herbert Henry Dow; chemical manufacturer (1866)

Bill Duke; actor (1943)

Kevin Dunn; actor (1956)

Marshall Faulk; St. Louis Rams RB (1973)

William Frawley; actor (1887)

Jennifer Grant; actor (1966)

Victor Hugo; writer (1802)

Betty Hutton; actor (1921)

John Harvey Kellogg; dietician, doctor (1852)

Kara Monaco; model (1983)

Teresa Palmer; actor (1986)

Tony Randall; actor (1920)

Mitch Ryder; rock singer (1945)

Levi Strauss; inventor (1829)

Jenny Thompson; swimmer (1973)

Elihu Vedder; artist, illustrator (1836)

Wenceslas of Bohemia; ruler (1361)

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Promotional Booklets (1958-60)