A strange collector's piece...

[Sogturtle]

This is definitely one of the stranger things I've seen turn up (not to be confused with turnip;) ) on auction... It's a Tex Avery autograph on an animation drawing from George Gordon's cartoon "The Stork's Holiday"!!! Brings up all sorts of unique questions as to WHY Tex would have agreed to to sign a drawing from someone else's cartoon... Would someone have wanted him to sign an MGM drawing that everyone knows isn't his??? Or had Tex helped Gordon in some way with this (George Gordon's first CREDITED) MGM cartoon and was thus agreeable.... Hmmmmmm... MAYBE, just maybe Tex functioned as a "Supervising Director" like Hanna-Barbera did on Preston Blair-Michael Lah's first Barney Bear cartoon...


http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1153716714

[Jack]

I can't access the picture, but maybe some fanboy just had Avery sign it, thinking "This drawing is from MGM, so he must have worked on it!(like all those great Tex Avery Tom and Jerry shorts)."

I should find this again, but once I happened to see a lobby card from "Ali Baba Bunny" signed by Friz Freleng.



Jack:D
"Ali Baba Bunny" is such a good Friz Freleng cartoon too....

[Sogturtle]

Yeah Jack, I own a couple of the lobbycards autographed by Friz... Whether Freleng REALLY signed these is another question altogether... Mine are from those great Freleng cartoons "Jeepers Creepers" and "Daffy Duckaroo"!!!

The fanboy explanation was the first that came to my little-peabrain, buuuuuut Tex signed VERY few things ever!!! He was pretty darn cautious about signing only those things he actually worked on (he and Clampett and Friz all signed some Porky stuffed toys!!!) At present there's an Avery "Elmer as Mountie" cel and drawing on Ebay as well... Unsigned!!

[Sogturtle]

Fixed the damaged URL link for the drawing...