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In 2017, Papercutz asked me if I wanted to do a five page Gumby story. I'm a fan of Art Clokey, so I said yes. I sent in four plots, and this is the story they chose. When I started writing the actual script, I'd realized my story was about sound, and comic books don't have any sound. After I wrote the story, I ran it past my musician friend Will Ryan. He liked the story and gave me some assistance with the musical notes.
Gumby, Rodgy, Henry and Paul Plunk are all Art Clokey creations. I wanted to use another of his inventions, namely Moody Rudy in the next story. Alas, there was no next story. This story was the last five pages they needed to fill out the lone Gumby paperback that Papercutz published...
Gumby, Rodgy, Henry and Paul Plunk are all Art Clokey creations. I wanted to use another of his inventions, namely Moody Rudy in the next story. Alas, there was no next story. This story was the last five pages they needed to fill out the lone Gumby paperback that Papercutz published...
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Don was an acquaintance, and I was the voice director on a PSA where he played Boo Boo Bear. Of course I didn't need to tell him how to sound like Boo Boo.
Gumby had more than one person doing his voice, but Dal McKennon was probably his most frequently heard voice. I only met Dal once, but Tracy and I got to have a long conversation with him that time. He was quite an amazing character.
Gumby had more than one person doing his voice, but Dal McKennon was probably his most frequently heard voice. I only met Dal once, but Tracy and I got to have a long conversation with him that time. He was quite an amazing character.
Yep, Dal McKennon was always my favorite Gumby voice, doing it in the 1957-66 shorts, the 1988 revival series and the 1995 movie (he used a pseudonym for the latter, "Charles Farrington," based on Clokey's real name). And in the case of the 1988 series and the movie, McKennon was the only professional voice actor on staff, and so in addition to voicing Gumby, Professor Kapp and numerous minor/incidental characters, he also served as the voice coach (as the rest of the voices were done by the production/animation team at Premavision, but this was nothing new, as Art Clokey had often voiced Pokey, Prickle and Gumbo in the older shorts before reprising the roles for the 1988 series).
Well, I liked it a lot. I grew up with Gumby in first-run shorts (can't really call claymation a cartoon, can we?), so it's always been a part of my life. Clokey's Gumbasia predates it all. I first saw it in high school in the early 1970s -- an art teacher owned a 16mm print -- and it was psychedelic to me.
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