Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Furries

I am not a furry -- I don't long to re-imagine myself as an animal. I don't own a velour suit shaped like a wolf, etc. However, as a kid I watched lots of cartoons and some anthropomorphic cartoon characters I think fueled my earliest inclinations to the damsel in distress fantasy. Here are three I can think of off the top of my head:

Gadget Hackwrench (from Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers). Yeah, a mouse. She was drawn to be captured and imperilled. Love the overalls.

Polly Purebred (from Underdog). A sort of bizarrely drawn Lois Lane of the poodle world. Despite the weirdly big head, I always wished for Riff Raff or Simon Bar Sinister to use her as bait to catch Underdog. Sometimes it actually happened.....

Callie Briggs (SWAT Kats). I don't remember SWAT Kats. I have no idea what the premise was. But I remember Callie. I saw so few episodes of this I don't even know if she was ever a damsel in distress....

BTW, sorry I have not been posting. Partly it's RL, partly it's having nothing new to say for a while. But I am still around.....