Frankie's Apartment

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Blue Kills: Critters

BIRDLINGS

17-YEAR CICADAS

MEDDLING CHILDREN

OUT-OF-WORK DUCKS WHO WANT TO GET INTO SHOW BUSINESS

Blue Kills Park: Firework Detritis

People always blow off fireworks at Blue Kills. It's like a thing. 4th of July every day. Cops look the other way, mostly because the Green Pumpkin holds the most sway in Blue Kills, not the cops. No one's ever seen the Green Pumpkin in person but he's got Pumpkin-Guys on his side that do a lot of pumpkin-stuff for him.

Blue Kills: Graf

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Rubbish Gets Arrested

BUSTED!!!
Apparently Supermarket Grazing is illegal...

Monday, June 3, 2013

Howard Plus Sighting

Howard Plus was this St. Bernard who hung out with us briefly in the early Aughts.
He never said much and mostly just laid around, except for when there were photo opportunities.
He'd sit straight up, stare 1000 yards in the distance and pose like a proud Roman statue.
Then one day, he just disappeared...
After some snooping and interrogating (I am RAT after all), I got to the bottom of the mystery.
One night Mr. Parfenix (who else?) had the shakes real bad.
He couldn't contain himself any longer so he syphoned out the boozy contents of
Howard Plus' first aid barrel with a hose while the pooch was sleeping and partied 'til dawn.
When Howard woke up to his empty barrel, he split town feeling betrayed and useless.
Apparently, he was spotted this past Winter at the Mount Airy Lodge in The Poconos.
That Resort with the champagne-glass shaped hot tubs and wacky commercials.
Anyway, we miss you Howard Plus.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Steven LaChay

Steven LaChay calls himself a Stylist and is always criticizing everyone's outfits.
"Why do you wear that ratty bow-tie everyday Rubbish?".
"Sudsy, your ghost sheet is just plain scary".
"Looks like you slept in your pajama-outfit Frankie".
To be honest, I don't think Steven gets the finer points of being a Cartoon Character:
We wear the same crap everyday! How else are you going to be recognized?!

Steven thinks that this pattern is going to be "IN" in a major way.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Snowmen Marshmallows

Looks like Bill the Snowman is up to his usual fly-by-night schemes
to drum up a few extra bucks by lending his image to cheap marshmallows.
He outta be ashamed!

But he did come up with this excellent design though.

Paper Cut-Out Robot Head

I have no clue on how to fold this thing together, but I do know that his eyes are the bomb!

"Rubbish The Rat" in Sign Language

This is how you say my name in Sign Language.
It actually reads "Trash Rat", but that'll have to do.

OXBERRY Field Guide

The Oxberry Field Guide was used on an animation drafting table under your drawings,
in order to keep "Clicks" (single cartoon frames) aligned with each other.
I'm sure it still gets used somewhere, even though most cartoons are done on computers these days.