Art Davis - "Holiday For Drumsticks"

Happy Thanksgiving all! I hope everyone enjoys the holiday. Let's all give thanks to Art Davis and company for making this great Daffy cartoon, "Holiday For Drumsticks". Is Phil DeGuard not one of the greatest background painters ever? I love his paintings on Davis' shorts.

Holiday For Drumsticks

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Art Davis - "What Makes Daffy Duck"

More Art Davis for you, this time it's "What Makes Daffy Duck". As usual there's some great backgrounds from Phil DeGuard and excellent animation by Emery Hawkins, Don Williams and company. I'd really like to see some of Don Smith's layouts for Davis's shorts. Anyone happen to see any online anywhere?

1948 Art Davis

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Art Davis - "Riff Raffy Daffy"

This is the cartoon that really got me interested in Art Davis as a director. I remember when I first saw it I rewound the tape halfway through it to double check who the director was. The opening scenes are hilarious and the scene with Daffy and Porky arguing through the window really cracks me up. The Daffy design is great too, right up there with Clampett's unit. I wish I had some art from this short, especially layouts from the scenes in the park, but I guess just the cartoon will do. Sorry.

Riff Raffy Daffy

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Daffy Duck Model Sheets

Here's some Daffy model sheets. As a kid Daffy and Bugs were my favorite characters, they still are but I really have little interest in the cartoons from the mid to late 50's. I mean how horrible was the pairing of Daffy and Speedy Gonzalez? Somewhere along the line Daffy was ruined and turned into a jerk. There's still some funny moments but I prefer Daffy when he was... well, daffy. My favorite Daffy cartoons are "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" and "Yankee Doodle Daffy", they're hilarious.

A 1937 animation drawing by Bob Clampett

1940

1946-Sketches from Clampett's Book Revue

1950