To commemorate my favorite month (October) and my favorite
holiday (Halloween), I'm doing a monster sketch per day.
I've never been crazy about the Devil in the context of pop
culture. Overall, I find his usage in print and film fiction to be overdone,
and ultimately, a lazy choice in lieu of creating an original monster. That
said, the biggest exception to this gripe is the character of B. L. Zebubb in
the 1978 animated Halloween special, "The Devil and Daniel Mouse",
produced by the Nelvana animation studio. In it, B.L. is a sleazy and scary
music producer who convinces Jan Mouse to sell her soul for a successful singing
career, only to have his scheme thwarted by Jan and her boyfriend Dan. The
cartoon is a shining childhood memory for me, and B.L.'s reptilian appearance
has inspired a lot of monsters that I've created over the years.
2 comments:
Wow. Blast from the past. And you know what? I even know the song from the end by heart! LOL! Good ol' Nelvana!
I saw this once when I was 4, and maybe saw 10 minutes of it at the most. Some 30 years later I just had to track it down on dvd, based on one hazy memory, and I didn't even know its name ;D Once again, your sense of nostalgia strikes gold
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