Nothing was ever animated featuring Woody's REJECTS (as Bhob S reminds me, not the MISFITS)characters but apparently it was considered at one point. Here, as found on the Net, are a couple of drawings supposedly from that project.
Those characters are from THE REJECTS, not THE MISFITS (which was drawn in Wood's usual realistic style, not cartoony). As I recall, I penciled a presentation board of the REJECTS characters which Wood finished and took to the Paramount cartoon department (then run by Bakshi). A few weeks later, Paramount closed their cartoon department, and Wood felt that Bakshi had hijacked his creation. He then asked me to write a REJECTS story for WITZEND "to protect the copyright," as he put it. To make it more confusing, there is an overlap of several REJECTS characters with BUCKY RUCKUS characters.
Thanks, Bhob. I should have caught the error as I always loved the Rejects and never cared that much for the Misfits. Always a pleasure to have your historical anecdotes added, sir!
Those characters are from THE REJECTS, not THE MISFITS (which was drawn in Wood's usual realistic style, not cartoony). As I recall, I penciled a presentation board of the REJECTS characters which Wood finished and took to the Paramount cartoon department (then run by Bakshi). A few weeks later, Paramount closed their cartoon department, and Wood felt that Bakshi had hijacked his creation. He then asked me to write a REJECTS story for WITZEND "to protect the copyright," as he put it. To make it more confusing, there is an overlap of several REJECTS characters with BUCKY RUCKUS characters.
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Thanks, Bhob. I should have caught the error as I always loved the Rejects and never cared that much for the Misfits. Always a pleasure to have your historical anecdotes added, sir!
ReplyDeleteActually, I'm wrong... as there were two different MISFITS versions, one straight and one cartooned.
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