I am working on a screen play based on Walt and Skeezix. It starts with Walt coming home from WW1 and setting up shop and discovering Skeezix in 1921 right up to the big custody court case in 1928 ending there. I like to see the film on Frank Buckles to see any parallels. Maybe it is like Benjamin Button in reverse.
Oh, goodness!
Why so focused on Walt’s demise?
Comic strips are fantasy; personally I go to them to take me away from reality. If Walt lives to 250, then I say “You Go, Guy!”. The thing I love about GA is that it does meander slowly, and lovingly. Modern life is not as kind or civil.
The price of the shoe was $1, a denomination that didn’t exist in the colonies. The media of exchange were of four kinds: barter, pound sterling, currency, and proclamation money.
Hey 436rge, I would lov e to see a plot line like this: Several canisters of silent film, some stills and a yellowed screenplay turn up at an estate auction or possibly on a show like “Antiques Roadshow.” The working title: “A Boy Called Skeezix,” and the man playing Uncle Walt is none other that Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle.” He has apparently used his on money to start the project and cast himself as the ultra-good guy Walt in an effort to make a comeback.
That is as far as I got.
Of course Arbuckle was working as a director under an alias during the 20’s.
I have often wondered if there were ever plans for a GA silent movie or animated cartoon. They were alreday doing toy and game tie-ins about the strip, so we know the strip was pretty hot property. There were two GA films done in the early fifties, and you can find them on Nedtflix,but as far as I can tell no one made a silent GA. I could picture Wallace Beery or Oliver Hardy (sans toothbrush moustache) as Uncle Walt and Jackie Coogan as Skeezix.
axe-grinder over 13 years ago
Bills!
kab2rb over 13 years ago
It would be hard to say goodbye to Uncle Walt. I realize people in real life don’t live forever.
436rge over 13 years ago
I am working on a screen play based on Walt and Skeezix. It starts with Walt coming home from WW1 and setting up shop and discovering Skeezix in 1921 right up to the big custody court case in 1928 ending there. I like to see the film on Frank Buckles to see any parallels. Maybe it is like Benjamin Button in reverse.
Fangirl over 13 years ago
Oh, goodness! Why so focused on Walt’s demise? Comic strips are fantasy; personally I go to them to take me away from reality. If Walt lives to 250, then I say “You Go, Guy!”. The thing I love about GA is that it does meander slowly, and lovingly. Modern life is not as kind or civil.
countoftowergrove over 13 years ago
Time to let Walt go, with dignity, unless there is some kind of acknowledgement that he is the last American survivor of WW!.
countoftowergrove over 13 years ago
The price of the shoe was $1, a denomination that didn’t exist in the colonies. The media of exchange were of four kinds: barter, pound sterling, currency, and proclamation money.
wkevinl over 13 years ago
Hey 436rge, I would lov e to see a plot line like this: Several canisters of silent film, some stills and a yellowed screenplay turn up at an estate auction or possibly on a show like “Antiques Roadshow.” The working title: “A Boy Called Skeezix,” and the man playing Uncle Walt is none other that Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle.” He has apparently used his on money to start the project and cast himself as the ultra-good guy Walt in an effort to make a comeback. That is as far as I got.
436rge over 13 years ago
Wow wkevini. Really? It’s possible that R,Arbuckle would have thought of it. HeI was doing all that after his scandal.
wkevinl over 13 years ago