Dave, I didn’t realize there was a TA comic. I always loved the movie since I watched it in college but I first came to it watching the early 90’s cartoon series when I was a kid.
Absolutely! I loved Beetlejuice and the Ghostbusters cartoons. And TMNT for that matter. You throw in Batman: The Animated Series, Garfield and Friends, and Tales From The Cryptkeeper and you got all my favorites right here basically. And it was a wild time to be a kid. Just drunk off life and the dangerously toxic level of corn fructose syrup in Ecto Coolers.
And the Beetlejuice cartoon, Ghostbusters and then “The Real Ghostbusters” (remember those?) that came alongside Slimer Hostess Pudding Pies for kids, or heck even TMNT - a comic that was totally not for kids, not even a little bit! Just so many cartoons that are head-scratching looking back. I think we were just cartoon and lunchbox / breakfast cereal / merch obsessed in that era. Anything and everything was turned into a cartoon and kids franchise because there was big $$$ to be made. If you had an IP, you had to give it a shot as a kids property. A wild time to be a kid, man.
Thanks for contributing to the visibility. I’ll have to check it out.
The early 90’s had that weird phase of turning random, cult adult media inappropriate for kids into Saturday morning cartoons for kids. They did this with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes as well if you remember that one?
Would be an interesting rabbit hole to explore that for kids of the 90’s.
Same! I loved the cartoon. When we tackled the OG movie on the podcast last year with artist Fred Harper, I was stunned to realize I'd actually never seen the movie! (Somehow I'd just assumed I always had.) But that's been corrected now. And man, this comic RULES. I think it's the best TA anything yet made, and that's saying something.
Thanks for the Trousseau shout-out and glad you liked the Santa Barbara version! I love that label - the font makes the name of the grape look like a Jane Austen novel.
Dave, I didn’t realize there was a TA comic. I always loved the movie since I watched it in college but I first came to it watching the early 90’s cartoon series when I was a kid.
Absolutely! I loved Beetlejuice and the Ghostbusters cartoons. And TMNT for that matter. You throw in Batman: The Animated Series, Garfield and Friends, and Tales From The Cryptkeeper and you got all my favorites right here basically. And it was a wild time to be a kid. Just drunk off life and the dangerously toxic level of corn fructose syrup in Ecto Coolers.
Not to mention Robocop and others.
And the Beetlejuice cartoon, Ghostbusters and then “The Real Ghostbusters” (remember those?) that came alongside Slimer Hostess Pudding Pies for kids, or heck even TMNT - a comic that was totally not for kids, not even a little bit! Just so many cartoons that are head-scratching looking back. I think we were just cartoon and lunchbox / breakfast cereal / merch obsessed in that era. Anything and everything was turned into a cartoon and kids franchise because there was big $$$ to be made. If you had an IP, you had to give it a shot as a kids property. A wild time to be a kid, man.
Thanks for contributing to the visibility. I’ll have to check it out.
The early 90’s had that weird phase of turning random, cult adult media inappropriate for kids into Saturday morning cartoons for kids. They did this with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes as well if you remember that one?
Would be an interesting rabbit hole to explore that for kids of the 90’s.
Same! I loved the cartoon. When we tackled the OG movie on the podcast last year with artist Fred Harper, I was stunned to realize I'd actually never seen the movie! (Somehow I'd just assumed I always had.) But that's been corrected now. And man, this comic RULES. I think it's the best TA anything yet made, and that's saying something.
Thanks so much for the post Dave! I really appreciate all your support you’ve given our project! I also appreciate the wine tips!🤪
Thanks for the Trousseau shout-out and glad you liked the Santa Barbara version! I love that label - the font makes the name of the grape look like a Jane Austen novel.