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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

September (yeah I know, I’m a few days late):

Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Annette Funicello on “The Danny Thomas Show” looked like if a cartoon mouse wished to be human and this was the result. Like, look at these expressions.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What I went to see last night at Tanger Center (absolutely loved it btw)

A stage, with a person sitting and reading on the left side. He has his legs crossed.
On the right, is a table with a mini record player, with a Nat King Cole album.
In the background is the title “Maybe Happy Ending” with its Korean title alongside.

A CD of the Maybe Happy Ending score, and a sticker set.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me this morning: Wow! What a refreshingly chill breeze we have this morning! I wonder if it will finally get colder later on *checks weather app* OH COME ONNN

The weather schedule for my location showing the highest degrees growing closer to the 80’s, despite the fact that autumn had started

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like the profile drawings of Daffy in this scene.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

that bubble should’ve fucking popped by now, but nooOOOOooo 🫩

A screenshot from the ‘Annette’ serial from the 50’s Mickey Mouse Club.
Annette (played by Annette Funicello, duh) gives a rather disapproving look to the viewer.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

there’s also “Heidi’s Song” *internal screaming*

Spritz from “Heidi’s Song” (1982, dir. Robert Taylor)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random, or you'll have an awful September

A panel featuring a women duck making ‘duck lips’ and posing for the photographers and Lightning McQueen from the hit movie “Cars” for some reason. Lightning is right behind her and is staring at the reader’s soul.

From the April 2010 issue of “La Moda Animada”. Art by Ulrich Schröder.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

why yes, I would like to watch some early 60’s McKimson on the TV after seeing “Castle in the Sky” at the theater. how kind of you!

“Claws in the Lease” (1963, dir. Robert McKimson)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Is there any grammar or spell checker that is not swimming in genAI?!”

Yzma from “The Emperor’s New Groove” (2000, dir. Mark Dindal)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Seeing the main protagonist’s design upon closer inspection from another video actually has me confident now. He’s actually really cute.

Concept art of the protagonist Flip from WDAS’ upcoming “Clay”

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I actually really like this design, sorry. He actually looks decently close to the original concept art.

Concept art of Bucket the Cat from “Hexed”.
He’s a blue 3 eyed cat with a calm personality, and he wears a pink robe.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I haven’t played Deltarune at all, but anytime I look at Flowery, I just keep thinking of Starboy from the “Wish” concept art.

Flowery from “Deltarune”
He has golden hair, and light skin, with brown jeans and a white suit with a dash of red and green. His cape is black.

Concept art of ‘Starboy’ from “Wish” before his design changed.
Starboy is completely golden while his cape is a light sky blue, that fades into little sparkles. He also has black eyebrows that makes his expressions easy to read.
Here, he’s giving a tree a smiley face.
Art by Ben Schwab from the ‘Art of “Wish”’ book.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Eh, probably just something to pay the bills, I guess.

A shrugging cat from “Birdy and the Beast” (1944, dir. Robert Clampett)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Funny enough, Maury Yeston (of “Nine” and “Titanic” fame) got to write a score for a Star Wars Christmas album titled “Christmas in the Stars”. I actually haven’t heard it yet, but it sure looks interesting…

Within a mistletoe framing, there’s an image of R2-D2 and other droids from the Star Wars series fixing toys in what looks like a toy factory. We also see C-3PO conversing with an old man near the fireplace.
The top reads: “Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album”
The bottom reads: “Featuring the Original Cast: R2-D2~Anthony Daniels as C-3PO”
From 1980.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

May (that’s right, I listened to only one for some reason.):

Once on This Island (Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Musicals I’ve listened to in 2026 April:

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Alan Menken/Howard Ashman) (additional lyrics by Dennis Green)

Finian’s Rainbow (Burton Lane/E. Y. Harburg)

Bloomer Girl (Harold Arlen/E. Y. Harburg)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You just reminded me, there was one musical Menken/Ashman really wanted to do, which was an adaptation of the Damon Runyon story, “Little Pinks”. Alan Menken talked about it in an interview many years ago.

“Before Howard became too ill to work, he and I had started work on a musical based on the Damon Runyon story Little Pinks specifically the movie, based on that story, Big Street. But we never even wrote one song, because another writer held the rights. And we would have had to wait a few years before they would become available. I was mystified when Howard just gave up on trying. Later I realized that he was running out of time in his fight against AIDS. And he assumed - correctly - that he wouldn't be around when those rights would be available.

Years later, 1 acquired the rights and worked on not one, but two adaptations of that story with other collaborators. I couldn't solve the tonal issues. But I just know Howard would have figured it out. It was the story of a showgirl, Your Highness, and the busboy, Little Pinks, who worshiped the very ground she walked on. When she is crippled by being thrown down a flight of stairs, Pinks gradually becomes her knight in shining armor; even pushing her wheelchair all the way, from New York to Miami beach. Only when she dies in his arms does she acknowledge her unlikely hero.

In my mind, this was a story that was an analogue for the illness Howard was dealing with privately.
We will never know what our version of this musical would have been.”

https://www.howardashman.com/blog/interview-with-alan-menken-part-two

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I can’t help but think about how Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg (“The Wizard of Oz”) were going to do a movie musical about Nellie Bly in the 50’s (with a script by Arthur Freed). But was cancelled because Yip was still dealing with being blacklisted from working on any Hollywood projects.

Arthur Freed had a whole script written on Nellie Bly, the first woman journalist, who went around the world. They wanted Harold Arlen and myself to do the picture. Of course, Arthur Freed knew that would be a subject that interested me. And they sent for me, paid my fare, and we had started work on it....
And Roy Brewer, who was head of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees unions and also a huge muckamuck in the legion of honor in the American Legion... now you notice how they worked it both ways... the head of the union, and the head of the legion, you see. So, with that kind of power, he held a sceptre and a club over the studios; they couldn't move. Now here was a man who was always in the ignominious position of having to fight for a two dollar raise for a man, you know, calling out strikes, being beaten the hell out of by the studio, and now he becomes head of all the studios. What a joyous, dramatic turn of events this was! The man who had to crawl, now was getting Louis B.
Mayer and Jack Warner to crawl to him and say, "Please, can we use so-and-so, can we use Trumbo to write two scenes or a paragraph? Can we use Yip Harburg for just one lyric, please?" What a joyous position he had now. He was taking it all out on the studios. So when he found out I was on the picture Nellie Bly, he said, "Nothing doing. This picture will be boycotted." Arthur Freed got me in the office to apologize. "We can't help it, we're in a terrible spot. Will you please go see Roy Brewer and talk to him? We talked to him and he said you can clear things up if you just go over there."”

From “Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist” by Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg.

“So I went to see Roy Brewer one day. I wish I had a tape of that meeting. Number one, he called in a fellow by the name of, I think, Cardigan. Cardigan was an ex-Communist. He came in with a file of papers on me that was thicker than all my works. He had everything. I said, "What did I do in pictures that was subversive? Can you tell me?"
"We know all the tricks," he says.
"First of all," I said, "you say that I have ever been a Communist?" He looked at me and he finally said, "Well, we must say this. We don't have anybody who has ever directly mentioned your name, who said you were in a cell or said you were a Communist."
I said, "All right. Number one, I am not a Communist. Now what the hell do you want of me?"
He said, "But you did things." I said, "Like what?"”

From “Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist” by Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg.

"Well, did you write a song called 'Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe'?"
I said, "Yes, for Cabin in the Sky. A big hit."
He said, "Which Joe were you talking about? Was it Joe Stalin?" Now, this is what I had to contend with. Either you bust out laughing or you throw the desk at him. I just broke into laughter. This got them mad.
"You gave money to China."-"Yes, I gave money to China." —"Did you give money to the Spanish Loyalists?" — "Yes, I gave money to the Spanish Loyalists."— —"Why did you give money to the Spanish Loyalists?"-
"They were fighting for my freedom. Did you want Nazi Germany to win?" Silly things like that. Finally they couldn't get anything on me, really, except in these idiotic things where I had given my money to....
"Are you a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee?"- "Not only am I a member, I helped start it."

From “Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist” by Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg.

“I said, "All right, why don't you want me to write Nellie Bly? I can get you a great score out of that; maybe we'll have some hit songs and it'll make you happy too. And then you wouldn't have to sit around here with all these grim faces. I could write some funny songs for you. You guys are very grim now." Well, this guy got madder and madder.
I said, "Now what do you want me to do?" He said, "Do you know the newspaper that the American Legion gets out?" They had a magazine, The Legionnaire. He said, "Well, three months ago," they opened up an issue, “here's an article by a good friend of yours, Edward G. Robinson." I took a look at the headline—"I Was a Dupe for the Communists." "He was in your position. He was not a member of the Communist party, but he was a dupe for it. You just write us one article along similar lines." I said, "No. I will not write one article. However, it's got nothing to do with politics. I've read your Legionnaire at times, and I think it's a fourth-rate magazine.
And I will not write for anything that isn't a first-rate magazine. This is purely a literary idiosyncracy of mine." I refused to write the article and the show was called off. I never got to see Nellie Bly.”

From “Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist” by Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

man it feels great to be drawing again, I’m really happy with the last two #sketch #sketches #sketchbook #artistsonBlueSky

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I can’t stop thinking about this winter jacket Annette wore a few times in merchandise in the ‘58 season.

A black & white picture of a smiling Annette Funicello wearing a winter jacket, with an odd hoodie that looks like a sleeping cap with a tassel at the end.
She’s holding a piece of fan mail.
At the left is a signature of ‘Annette’ but it’s clearly doesn’t look like her real autograph.
This picture was the cover of several pieces of sheet music of songs Annette sung in 1958/59 like “How Will I Know My Love?” and “Tall Paul”.

A color picture of Annette Funicello shyly drinking soda, while wearing the winter jacket. David Stollery & Tom Considine (who play their characters Mike & Stephen respectively in the Annette serial from MMC) talk with her.
The text on the top reads: “Annette was shy, but Mike and Stephen didn’t seem to mind at all.”
This image actually comes from a short story segment of an abridged version of the Annette serial for the 1958 Walt Disney Magazine (or the Mickey Mouse Club Magazine as it was called early on).

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this actually kind of rocked woah

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I was able to scan all of the “Cats” concept art from the book. It’s really cool to see these in color.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Repost if your account is a safe place for the Trans community 💙🩷🤍

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

ON THAT GREAT COME-AND-GET-IT DAYYYY WON’T IT BE FUN WHEN WORRY IS DONE AND MONEY IS HAYYYY

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

mwahaha perfect, soon I will have the power to be his friend

Moon Child Mii walking on the street

“Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream”

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Deadline brought it up that Jason was co-directing (and I kept hearing that Fawn was involved too but I don’t know).

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If anyone was wondering what I’ve been up to last weekend, well… Getting a seal of approval and a “keep drawing!” from THE Andreas Deja was a big highlight.

Me standing in front of an inflatable Cowboy boot that reads “Animation Y’all! Expo”.

Me with John Pomeroy, holding pen art of Mrs. Brisby with his signature.

Me with Andreas Deja, holding a page from my sketchbook with drawings I did at a panel he, John, Stephen Anderson were hosting about “An American Tail” and “Great Mouse Detective”.

Me with Joanna Davidovich, holding an ORIGINAL animation drawing from her short “Monkey Rag”.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I rewatched “The Three Caballeros” (1944, supervis dir. Norm Ferguson) for the first time in years last night. I feel like this might be one of the only WDAS films to really embrace surrealism. Some of the shots in the hallucinatory climax could be its own bizarre album cover.

An extreme close-up of Donald Duck, looking dreamily at a live action Dora Luz.
From “The Three Caballeros” (1944, Seqence dir. Norm Ferguson)

Donald Duck sitting on a Quarter Moon, looking at all of the multicolor guitars floating in the night sky.
From “The Three Caballeros” (1944, Seqence dir. Norm Ferguson)

Dora Luz’s live action head on an animated flower.
From “The Three Caballeros” (1944, Seqence dir. Norm Ferguson)

Donald Duck impersonates a cactus, while Mexican dancer Carmen Molina is dancing in silhouette in the background. Both the sky and the bottom of the screen indicates patterns from Mexican art, but the bottom makes the scene indicate something a bit more ‘stagey’.
From “The Three Caballeros” (1944, Seqence dir. Norm Ferguson)

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If I had a nickel for every musical adaptation of “David Copperfield” that had original songs by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn… I’d have 2 nickels! Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

“Copperfield” (1981) ran at the ANTA Theatre from April 16-26, 1981. A cast recording of this show wasn’t made, but a few bootlegs have survived.

“David Copperfield” (1993, dir. Don Arioli).
While it shares the same songwriters, the songs from the 1981 show don’t make it in.

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Luke Perkins @ncluke1024.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So recently I’ve been working on a piece of animation with one of my characters and I’ve been trying to make sure the pauses in the timing feel right. And yet it ended up being… 17 seconds long.

“Rover Dangerfield” (1991, dir. James L. George & Bob Seely)

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