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Steven Worth at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has an interesting post about Warren Foster who he considers "The Greatest Cartoon Writer Of All Time" complete with some great storyboard scans. There's a bunch of other stuff about storyboarded versus script-written cartoons, and his opinion that todays' cartoonists don't know enough about or appreciate Golden Age cartoon writers. Link.
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One luxury the cartoon writers from the "Golden Age" have over writers today is that they never had to worry about continuity from one episode or short to the next. They didn't have to plot story archs for an entire season. And they always had the luxury of starting back at square one. Think about it -- most of the greatest cartoons ever made are simple "chase" stories. Today, the networks will tell you that that's not a series. We can't make 40's-era cartoons today. They simply won't let us. For example; the feedback I received on one of my pitches to the Cartoon Network a few years back went like this:
CN - "We love this! We love the characters and the show has a great, classic feel to it."
Me - "Fantastic! That's exactly what I was going for."
CN - "Well, that's why we're gonna have to pass on it."
Posted by: LTM | March 28, 2007 at 10:57 AM