Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) use the power of love and harmony to win back the undersea island and show the Meanies the error of their ways. Recruited by the Captain of the Yellow Submarine, the Fab Four (as Sgt. In case you’ve lived under a rock since 1968, Yellow Submarine is about the musically-averse Blue Meanies taking over the idyllic Pepperland. More info at to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast! Ron Campbell will sign and talk March 16 (4-8 p.m.), 17 (Noon-5 p.m.), and 18 (Noon-4 p.m.) at the Muir Fine Art Gallery at City Centre, 818 Town and Country Blvd. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, and people remember happy moments. And when they hang it on the wall, they tell me when they walk into the room, they just smile. “I do hear over and over again that people enjoy my art.
“I don’t consider what I do to be fine art, but fun art,” he sums up. They include shows from producers like Hanna-Barbera and Disney, among them “Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” “Captain Caveman,” “Yogi Bear,” “The Flinstones,” “The Jetsons,” “The Smurfs,” “The Snorks,” “Ducktales,” “Winnie the Pooh,” and “Rugrats.” He estimates that interest in his work today is about “60 percent Beatles and 40 percent everything else…Beatles fans are legion for their dedication!”īut even though many of his appearances today take place in “real” art galleries, Campbell doesn’t believe it should be so…well…art gallery-like. He began working for producer/director Al Brodax on shows like “Krazy Kat,” “Popeye,” and “Beetle Bailey.”īrodax was so impressed with Cambell’s work – and ability to deliver a project on time and on budget – he put the young animator in charge of this kiddie cartoon about a pop group he’d bought the rights to…Ĭampbell’s extensive post- Yellow Submarine resume included production, direction, animation, or storyboarding on a slew of beloved Boomer and Gen X youth cartoons. And I went to art school…thus rejecting all other possible career choices!”Ĭourtesy of Rock Art Show His post-graduation years coincided with the rise of television, for which children’s cartoons were an important (and cheap) part of programming. “I had to make my own drawings come alive. When his great-grandmother told him they were “just drawings,” the young Campbell immediately wanted to make his own.
TALKING SUBMARINE CARTOON MOVIE
Going back to the start, Campbell’s interest in animation grew while attending Saturday movie matinees in his native Australia when “strange creatures” (which turned out to be cartoons) were sprinkled in between various serials, newsreels, and the man feature. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr decided to appear in a live-action comedy bit tacked at the end, just before the final segment of “All Together Now.” And that the end result was decidedly not “that Flintstones shit.”Īlmost on the spot, the real-life Mssrs. The band themselves wanted nothing to do with the film, whose origins began more as a contractual obligation than an organic project.īut once the four Beatles had returned from their trip to India and saw a rough cut, they were blown away by the visuals and message.
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“To hear people talk so glowingly about the film…that means a lot to me,” he says.Ĭourtesy of Rock Art Show Just like with the TV cartoon, the Beatles’ voices in Yellow Submarine were all done by professional actors/imitators. In fact, he says it was only 10-15 years ago while talking to fans at his gallery shows that he’s truly grasped how big a deal Yellow Submarine actually is to people. But we knew that Disney would never put out something like this!” Campbell says. Psychedelic art was already established in advertising. I didn’t think we thought we were doing anything groundbreaking at the time. “We got to work with all kinds of designs on that, things we could never do on television shows or a commercial. Not that he or anyone else figured the end product would be all that groundbreaking or even remembered a half-century later (this year’s anniversary will feature the movie’s return to theaters in selected cities). Scenes he animated include the Sea of Time sequence, much of the action between the Chief Blue Meanie and his toadie companion Max, and those with Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D. He more memorably worked on an animated Beatles project of an entirely different sort – the groundbreaking 1968 feature film Yellow Submarine. He’ll be selling and signing original artwork, prints, and posters-subjects including the Beatles and other cartoon favorites-and talking with fans. Photo by Nick Follger/Courtesy of Rock Art Show Campbell – a creative force in animation for more than five decades – will be making a stop in Houston at the Muir Fine Art Gallery.
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