It is getting to that time again, time to teach about UPA in my current Laguna Animation History class. So that means it is time to get out my HellBoy DVD.



Here is a trend that I would love to see fanned into a forest fire of bandwagon follow travelers. For the past few years a couple of "A" list directors like Guillermo Del Toro with a great love and respect for rare cartoons have used their clout to get studios to open the vault and include hidden animated treasures as extra goodies on the DVD release of hit movies.



I bought HellBoy for the McBoing Boing cartoons. I liked HellBoy. It was an okay movie, I got it out of the library when it first came out. But it was Gerald McBoing Boing, How Now McBoing Boing, Gerald McBoing Boing and the Planet Moo, and The Tell-Tale Heart that made me pull out my Visa Card and take this disk home.

$20 for a copy of Tell-Tale Heart and you throw in 3 McBoing Boings, deal. The feature is just icing on the cake.  ¶ 5:10 PM