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Think Pink: The Story of DePatie-Freleng Paperback – October 26, 2015

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Think Pink! The Depatie-Freleng Story In 1963, Warner Bros. closed down their long-running cartoon facility that had produced such memorable merrymakers as the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Director/producer Friz Freleng and executive David H. DePatie faced unwanted early retirement. A generous parting gesture from a Warner executive allowed Freleng and DePatie to lease the former Warner cartoons studio on California Street in Burbank, complete with equipment and supplies, for a few dollars each year. They teamed up to create animated cartoons for advertising, but not everything behind their enterprise was enchanting. They struggled to keep their small animation studio running against odds and obstacles such as rising costs, heavy competition, outsourcing of labor to other countries, strikes, death, changing directions, and buyouts. They never anticipated how they would soon style a series of cartoon characters that would paint memorable colors over movie animation history. When director Blake Edwards produced The Pink Panther starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, and Claudia Cardinale, he envisioned a cartoon character of the same name to illustrate the opening credits sequence. Edwards hired Freleng and DePatie, together with artists at their DePatie-Freleng Enterprises studio, to design the animated sequence. The crafty magenta furry feline minced his way into moviegoer’s hearts. The inspiration behind the ink was the people that worked at the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE) animation studio. Their hilarious cartoons caused a generation of moviegoers to rock theaters with laughter. Author Mark Arnold returns you to the nostalgic memories of the exhilarating Pink Panther series and other cartoons DFE created. Discover the craftsmen behind the cartoons in an exciting exploration of the Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau, Ant and the Aardvark, Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, The Lorax, Doctor Dolittle, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Mr. Magoo, The Fantastic Four, Planet of the Apes, Doctor Snuggles, Baggy Pants, The Nitwits, The Barkleys, The Houndcats, The Grump, The Super Six, Super President, Spy Shadow, Hoot Kloot, Blue Racer, Crazylegs Crane, Misterjaw, Tijuana Toads, The Dogfather, The Oddball Couple, Charlie the tuna, David DePatie, Friz Freleng, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, and various animators. Over 400 photos and illustrations. Indexed. Appendixes. About the author: Mark Arnold is a comic book and animation historian. He has written for various magazines, including Back Issue, Alter Ego, Hogan’s Alley, Comic Book Artist, and Comic Book Marketplace. He is the author of seven other books, including two about Harvey Comics, two about Cracked magazine, one about TTV (Underdog), one about The Beatles, and one about Disney. He also helped Craig Yoe with a book about Archie. He has also performed commentary for the Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, and Casper DVD sets for Shout Factory. He is currently at work on a book about Dennis the Menace. He lives in Eugene, OR. “. . . DFE’s cartoons will continue to bring amusement and delight to millions of future cartoon enthusiasts to come! I would like to thank Mark for including me in the writing of his fantastic book.” – Art Leonardi, Animator, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. “Mark Arnold captures perfectly the behind-the-scenes of the making of DePatie-Freleng cartoons . . . Even if you are already an expert animation fan, you will learn the names John Dunn, Sid Marcus, Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis, and all the theatrical animation greats whose television work has until now been ignored.” – Joe Bevilacqua, veteran award-winning producer, director, writer, and actor. “Think Pink! is an impressive result of exhaustive research . . . Arnold’s efforts help the reader to further connect the dots from Yosemite Sam to the Pink Panther to Spider-Man.” – Bryan Stroud, writer, Back Issue magazine.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BearManor Media (October 26, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 638 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593931697
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593931698
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.44 x 9 inches

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Mark Arnold (1966- ) was born in San Jose, California. A comic book, animation and pop culture historian, Arnold has had many articles published in various publications and over 10 books published. He has a BA in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State and has performed many celebrity interviews. He published "The Harveyville Fun Times!" from 1990-2011. His first book "The Best of the Harveyville Fun Times!", was released in 2006. His second book "Created and Produced by Total TeleVision productions: The Story of Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and the Rest" was published in 2009. His third and fourth books were called "If You're Cracked, You're Happy: The Story of Cracked Mazagine, Book 1 and Book 2", and a fifth book called "Mark Arnold Picks on The Beatles" were all issued in 2011. His sixth book was "Frozen in Ice: The Story of Walt Disney Productions: 1966-1985" in 2013. His seventh book was "Think Pink! The DePatie-Freleng Story", issued in 2015. Books on Dennis the Menace and on The Monkees, as well as "The Harvey Comics Companion", were all issued in 2017. A book about Alvin and the Chipmunks was released in 2019, a Monkees solo book in 2020, "The TTV Scrapbook", Pac-Man and "Stars of Walt Disney Productions" in 2022. His latest book is about The Turtles music group, which came out in 2024. He is working on a MAD magazine book and a TV Cartoons book. He has also produced and recorded DVD commentaries for Shout! Factory and Kino Lorber and has helped the Cartoon Art Museum and the Schnitzer Museum with various art shows. He resides in Springfield, OR, where he hosts his own podcast called the Fun Ideas Podcast.

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Timothy M. Nolan

Think Pink!

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In the year 1963, Warner Bros. the home of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester The Cat, Tweety Pie, Cool Kat, Bunnie And Clyde, Tasmanian Devil, Yosemite Sam and the rest of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies family, shut down their longest running animation facility. Leaving it's animation team to early retirement including animation legend Friz Freleng and Executive Producer David H. DePatie. After a generous gesture from a former Warner exec allowed Friz and David to lease the former cartoon studio on Burbank's California Street, along with it's equipment and supplies for a few dollars each year. And with that, the two set out to create their own animation studio that would be known as DFE: DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The studio along with Legendary Producer Walter Mirisch, United Artists and Blake Edwards of Breakfast At Tiffany's and Petticoat Junction fame would go on to give birth to the legendary animated feline in cinema history: The Pink Panther and the french inspector Jacques Clouseau

Think Pink is the ultimate inside look into the underappreciated DePatie-Freleng animation catalog, Mark Arnold takes his readers starting from Friz and David's final days producing cartoons for Warner Bros' Looney Tunes in the early 60s, creating animation advertisements all the while struggling to keep the animation studio in good measures through power struggles, budget, buyouts, changing of direction in the later years. You get to hear eyewitness testimonies from the DFE family including composer Doug Goodwin, Directors Art Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Editor/Producer Lee Gunther, Writer John W. Dunn and many more. Arnold doesn't just give readers an into the creation of The Pink Panther and The Inspector cartoons, he also gives them a dive into some of DePatie-Freleng's other works including Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat, The Lorax, Halloween Is Grinch Night, The Hoober-Bloob Highway, The Grinch Grinches The Cat In The Hat and Pontoffel Pock And His Magic Piano, The Ant And The Aardvark, Roland And Ratfink, The Tijuana Toads (would later be changed to Texas Toads), The Blue Racer, The Dogfather, Crazylegs Crane and Hoot Kloot through cel drawings, production stills, advertising flyers and appendices.

Arnold's book is a thoroughly researched and richly detailed look into one of the most underrated animation companies that left a longlasting legacy. If you love animation, if you love cartoons and the process of how they are made, if you are an aspiring cartoonist/animator looking to get into the business. This is a book I would highly recommend for the artist in you.

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Think Pink! An insightful look at the creators of the Pink Panther, Classic Saturday Mornings, and Timeless Specials

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If you were a child of the Sixties or Seventies, you probably heard about The Pink Panther, but not so much about the creators behind it. Whenever you think of Saturday Morning, you probably think of Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Ruby-Spears and Rankin-Bass. But there was also a major contributor to Saturday Mornings which first began their start with theatrical shorts about a rose-coloured feline.

Think Pink! The Story of DePatie-Freleng is an intensive look on how David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng established their animation studio and began their success with the Pink Panther as well as other staples within animated television. Mark Arnold gives us a wonderful foray into the people and creators of such works as The Pink Panther, The Houndcats, The Barkleys, Doctor Doolittle, Here Comes The Grump, Timer Specials, The Cat in the Hat and others.

As I enjoy reading this book I learned about the successes of DFE and the not so-successful moments such as Super President and Spy Shadow.

Currently I'm at the chapter over the most sought after DePatie-Freleng production, Luvcast USA.

The funny thing about this show--which was a part of the Saturday Superstar Movie on ABC--was I do recall Ranton Rave who kept setting us up for 'Love Potion No. 9,' and the one episode which stuck out in my memory was the one called, "Moonlight Does The Strangest Thing to Me."

Basically it was about two seemingly average boy and girl going out on a date, where everything goes wrong, until the moon comes out and reveals he's a vampire and she's a werewolf (Note: if I'm incorrect, remember I'm going by my child memory, I was about five when it aired). And the hilarious moment was when they were playing the song, the monsters go to the Moon Drive-In Restaurant, and everyone quickly departing and the restaurant closing.

But one of the more fascinating articles within the book itself was "A Pink Christmas." Mainly because it was the first time the Pink Panther didn't resort to the typical antics you saw in his theatrical shorts. And it was the first Pink Panther animated tale to be adapted into his comic book form.

Basically I recall what made this exciting back then was, this was during the time, 1978, this was before VHS became commonplace, and there was no such thing as DVDs or streaming videos (except possibly for the Jetsons). So if you missed a special back then, you were pretty much SOL (Strictly Out of Luck) and had to wait an entire year to see it again (or by some fortunate miracle, the networks would rerun it for an animated block). So when Gold Key (who had been publishing the Pink Panther comics since 1971) brought out this adaptation, it was real treat because if you missed the animated version, you still had a hard copy to go on.

Back then, however, as with most adaptations, there were two subtle differences between the comic and the animated special. (1) As most Pink Panther fans know, though he never talked in the classic cartoons (except for two shorts), as with Tom & Jerry and the Road Runner, the comic version Pink Panther could speak; and (2) Whereas the animated special is based on an O. Henry tale, thus the setting is at the turn of the century, the comic version somehow mysteriously puts the story into the modern times. Though it really never hurt the story itself, because hey, the Pink Panther was just as cool and popular in the comics as his animated shorts, back then it sort of felt a little out-of-place.

[Sidenote: Harvey Comics did reprint 'A Pink Christmas,' when they obtained the rights to re-publish the comics during the 90s. So if you have difficulty finding the original print, you can always search there.]

Overall, Mark Arnold does an excellent and informative job with the book itself because as I'm reading it, not only do you learn more about the people behind DFE Studios and the characters, but you get to learn about how the classic shows came about and get an insightful look on why we going back to the days of Saturday Morning with a Pink Panther and friends.

I definitely recommend picking up Think Pink! The Story of DePatie-Freleng, since I feel it's truly an invaluable component to any animation collector's library.

Excellent job on the book, Mark!

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Great 60's & 70's Animation Text

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2017

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Great book on the history of a sixties animation studio. I really enjoyed the clippings from TV Guide, one sheets, the storyboards and such. Remember when TV Guide was the only resource available? In hindsight, those days look really bleak. I am amazed at all the work that went into "Think Pink," it took years to accumulate this material and most certainly the author, Mark Arnold is going to be giving Jerry Beck a run for his money as an animation expert. For years, I believed the seventies cartoon, "Around the World in 80 Days," was a Depatie Freling production. Well this book set me straight. It wasn't.
Items I loved:
---Some information on "For the Love of Fred." A family television special produced by the Rits Family, known for their expertise on puppetry. It had more heart and soul than many things produced today. Maybe it'll come out on DVD someday.
---When animating "Spider Man and His Amazing Friends," there was some issue on designing Firestar's posterior. Would have loved to have heard that one.
Mr. Arnold even did a bibliography which shows who owns what Depatie Freling property, since the various series have been sold to other companies and firms. Again, the author really did his work. Looking forward to more of his work in the future.
Just recently, it was announced that "The Oddball Couple" would be coming out on DVD. That's great news for cartoon aficionados. Hdopefully, "Think Pink," will bring attention to Depatie Freling series and specials that haven't made it to DVD yet. Super President? The Tiny Tree?
The New Adventures of Dr. Doolittle?"
Hopefully, there'll be more DP material in the future.
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--JThree
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López

Muy bueno

Reviewed in Spain on November 18, 2020

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El libro está profundamente documentado, ilustrado, y lleno de fotografías.

Es un tocho, por lo que compensa el precio y el trabajo realizado.

Muy recomendado para seguidores de la animación en general.

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García

Un libro en blanco y negro sobre un personaje en color rosa.

Reviewed in Spain on March 22, 2016

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Debería tener menos páginas, pero con ilustraciones a todo color y centrarse más en pink panther que en el resto de series de la productora. La verdad, esperaba otra cosa; más anécdotas y entresijos de la creación del personaje; el proceso de creación de las historias, la animación. Lo mejor es el título y la ilustración de la portada.

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