Was that MU Press's never-appeared "Dance of the Radio Men" by Lou Scarborough Jr.? I wrote a 1994 announcement based on that flyer. "The first issue of Lou Scarborough Jr.’s Dance of the Radio-Men should be published just about now. This is an offbeat mini-series scheduled for six to eight monthly issues. “Rachel Plympton is a television line producer for a superhero program who, in the process of saving her show and studio from being sold out from under her, herself becomes a ‘super-hero’. The series deals with the idea of imagination as both commodity and survival for the humans known as Teerithians. Rendered in traditional animation techniques, this is the first original concept-animation comic,” says Melville. This is a rather marginal ’morph title; it is set on Teerithia, an Earth-like planet whose people look roughly like the generic funny-animal background characters in Carl Barks’ Duck universe." I saw most of the finished artwork for #1, so it was not just big talk. Lou Scarborough Jr. made a very big impression on Furry fandom when he first appeared in the early '90s. He had worked at several major animation studios, had a very pleasant cartoon style, and was always just about to begin producing a Furry comic book for MU Press or Antarctic Press or Thoughts & Images or somebody. Which never happened. One time he had just gotten a job with John Kricfalusi animating Ren & Stimpy or something, and he had to put aside his planned comic book for *real* animation work. Whatever happened to Lou Scarborough Jr.? (Snide answer: he's become a permanent house guest of Marc Schirmeister.)
Was that MU Press's never-appeared "Dance of the Radio Men" by Lou Scarborough Jr.? I wrote a 1994 announcement based on that flyer. "The first issue of Lou Scarborough Jr.’s Dance of the Radio-Men should be published just about now. This is an offbeat mini-series scheduled for six to eight monthly issues. “Rachel Plympton is a television line producer for a superhero program who, in the process of saving her show and studio from being sold out from under her, herself becomes a ‘super-hero’. The series deals with the idea of imagination as both commodity and survival for the humans known as Teerithians. Rendered in traditional animation techniques, this is the first original concept-animation comic,” says Melville. This is a rather marginal ’morph title; it is set on Teerithia, an Earth-like planet whose people look roughly like the generic funny-animal background characters in Carl Barks’ Duck universe." I saw most of the finished artwork for #1, so it was not just big talk. Lou Scarborough Jr. made a very big impression on Furry fandom when he first appeared in the early '90s. He had worked at several major animation studios, had a very pleasant cartoon style, and was always just about to begin producing a Furry comic book for MU Press or Antarctic Press or Thoughts & Images or somebody. Which never happened. One time he had just gotten a job with John Kricfalusi animating Ren & Stimpy or something, and he had to put aside his planned comic book for *real* animation work. Whatever happened to Lou Scarborough Jr.? (Snide answer: he's become a permanent house guest of Marc Schirmeister.)
Fred Patten