Anthropomorphism
Atomic Rabbit
Radiation makes everything better.
From this encyclopedia entry:
Atomic Rabbit was a lot like Atomic Mouse, but with a species change and a couple less supporting characters. He protected Rabbitville, rather than Mouseville, from the depredations of Sly Fox, rather than Count Gatto. Instead of an inept assistant, Sly had two kids.
He, too, got his super powers from doubly-forbidden fruit by today's standards — drugs and radiation. But while both their power-enhancers were as radioactive as can be, Mouse's was more blatantly a drug. He got his super powers from U-235 pills, whereas Rabbit's U-235 carrots could be passed off as good nutrition, like Atomictot's vitamins and Popeye's spinach. But while Popeye of the E.C. Segar comics ate lots of spinach for strength through nutrition, the animated Popeye treated it like a drug, getting a huge rush from it and sometimes, just for emphasis, sucking it in through his pipe. Good nutrition or not, Atomic Rabbit definitely fell into the category of drug-based superheroes.
Ten full issues here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 22, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Drugs, Comics, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #216
I understand James Cameron is already adapting parts of this for the Avatar sequel, along with all his other "influences."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 09, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s
Fox in Socks Audio
From a 1966 vinyl record, featuring the voice of Robby the Robot.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 06, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Languages, Pop Art, Surrealism, Books, 1960s
Walter Potter
The Wikipedia page.
Alas, the museum was dissolved in 2003.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 23, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Eccentrics, Hobbies and DIY, Museums, Outsider Art, Europe, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Mischief Again!
I understand Michael Bay has already optioned this book for his next film, due to its over-the-top action.
View the whole book here.
The author.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 19, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Cats, Dogs, 1950s
Captive Wild Woman
Full history here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 18, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Movies, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #213
"Three out of four furries choose our suits!"
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 06, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, 1950s
Happy Thanksgiving
The tables are turned, as carnivorous turkeys get ready to chow down on an Indian child.
Have a swell holiday!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 27, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Holidays, Native Americans
Singing Pills
If your drugs are singing to you, you've probably already overdosed.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 23, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Medicine, PSA’s, 1980s
Sick Sick Sidney
That is one mentally unstable pachyderm.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 15, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Psychology, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1950s
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