![]() ![]() She’s proud of who she is and won’t apologize for it, approaching life with irrepressible moxie. And with her daring look, can-do attitude, and irresistible charm, Betty is ready for anything that comes her way. Betty is stylish and sexy, but never to please anyone but herself. Youthful, ambitious, sassy, and confident, Betty Boop seeks to make a positive change in the world around her. She is vibrant and magnetic-she inspires. Here the authors take ten empowering and universally inspiring themes pulled directly from the classic Fleischer Studios Betty Boop cartoons and demonstrate why they’re more relevant than ever in today’s world by blending them with modern images and timeless wisdom and advice. ![]() ![]() For more than 80 years, the glamorous international icon has sung, sashayed, and “Boop-Oop-a-Dooped” past rules and conventions, unafraid to take risks or set trends, and proving time after time that she can do anything she sets her mind to! Betty is beloved by millions of fans around the world, who are enchanted not only by her adorable appearance and iconic phrase, but also by her wit, inspiring messages, and ahead-of-her-time wisdom. Steve Wozniak brought a comic con to San Jose - crowds ensued.Ī handy guide to the Batman / Superman relationship over the years.“Everybody’s favorite liberated cartoon woman.” - Elle Classic and loveable Betty Boop is as fashionable, inspiring, and popular as ever! If there’s one thing Betty knows, it’s how to make a lasting impression. Here's a fine documentary on the cartoonist Richard Thompson. I found drawing plain suburban houses, storefronts, and strip malls pretty boring at the time. But yes, I was drawn to them because they looked like Hoboken. The underground comics that influenced me the most had the same feeling. ![]() Were you always drawn to that old-timey stuff, or did it start to grow on you once you were out on your own? Zero the sewer dog.īAGGE: I just heard Zero’s echoing, ghostly bark! Since you mentioned Betty Boop, I’m guessing those type of backgrounds also evoke cartoons and comics from the 30s and 40s that clearly had a huge influence on you. My brother Vincent accused our mom of shoving his dog, Zero down a sewer after she was sick of taking care of it. I lost a lot of Spalding rubber balls down sewers. I love the idea that there’s an underground world connecting the whole city. Stuff that kids are fascinated with, actually (or at least when we were kids). And the exteriors include abandoned littered sandlots and people going in and out of sewers. You should have been an interior decorator! Ha ha. But the simple truth is that I like drawing depressed backgrounds and interiors as well as weird architecture.īAGGE: Your interiors always include naked light bulbs, pealing wallpaper, broken plaster, torn shades and wobbly floorboards. It’s perhaps a psychic space that reflects my own run down mind. KAZ: Yes, Hoboken and Jersey City did look like Betty Boop backgrounds back in the 60’s. Might this be the Hoboken of your youth permanently planted in your psyche? Or perhaps because you moved back there when you started doing comics in earnest? Great, great stuff from two giants of the medium.īAGGE: Almost all of your work is set in a rundown, urban residential landscape – not unlike Hoboken or Jersey City, though more depressed than those places are now. Today on the site, we're thrilled to have Peter Bagge interviewing Kaz, focusing mostly on the early years. ![]()
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