Hello out there! Apologies for the lack of posts this year. But I haven’t forgotten Scrappyland—far from it. I’ve just been busy behind the scenes.
Back in 2012, I turned Scrappyland into a blog by putting it on the WordPress platform. I’m glad I did. However, that involved choosing a theme to use as the basis of the site’s design. The one I picked worked well, but in the decade-plus since I chose it, it became archaic from a technical standpoint. At some point, its settings even seized up. I could post to the site, but its design was frozen in place, and I worried it might stop working altogether.
So earlier this year, I finally got around to moving the site to a new, modern theme. If you don’t notice any changes, that’s kind of the point—for now, I want it to look pretty much the same as ever. Getting that done turned out to push my WordPress skills to the limit. (I might make a few more tweaks, and lemme know if you spot any glitches.)
There is one major change: If you read the site on a phone, it now shrinks down gracefully to fit on a small screen, and swaps out the sidebars for a menu button. If I feel like further adjustments, I can make them now. And I’m pretty sure this new theme will serve the site well for at least the next few years. I think of it as Scrappyland 3.0, with the original 2005 site being 1.0 and the 2012 blog as 2.0.
Anyhow, now that this migration is out of the way, I can get back to writing about Scrappy, and I promise that I will. Until then, please enjoy this photo of a purse with Scrappy and Margy on it—and see you soon.
Welcome back! I’m sure you are in touch with Jerry Beck. Maybe he would know if Scrappy might be among the many cartoons promised to join the lineup on the new MeTV Toons network….
Thanks for all you do!
Thanks, Randy! If memory serves, there were three color Scrappy cartoons–part of Columbia’s Color Rhapsodies series–and MeTV Toons has shown at least one and may have access to all of them. Of course, it would be incredible if they did a deal with Sony for the b&w ones.
Hi Harry,
Have you noticed that a Scrappy doll makes a cameo appearance in Ub Iwerks’ Columbia release, “The Horse On The Merry-Go-Round”? Near the start of the cartoon, a target game on the midway of the amusement park has an interesting prize: a Scrappy doll! Makes you wonder, did Ub approve of Scrappy? Was he even aware that Scrappy had the Columbia release? So many questions, so little crime!
Mark, once again, you’re amazing! I should have known about this. I’m going to write a post about it.
According to someone I once knew, Ub Iwerks directed the Scrappy short Scrappy’s Trip to Mars. I’m not entirely sure if this is true though, just thought I’d let you know!