Happy New Year's from Quick Draw McGraw

We had a hard time deciding which cartoon character to use for our annual Happy New Year's greeting, so after much reflection, we chose the Hanna Barbera 'toon character from the sixties, Quick Draw McGraw, who was perhaps influenced by the B-movie Westerns of the forties which starred the likes of Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy.

McGraw was voiced by the late, great Daws Butler, and some of his cartoons may appear on Bommerang! (which we can not completely verify).

'Course, there is always Youtube.........just make sure you don't click on a cartoon in Portuguese as I once did when viewing a Woody Woodpecker cartoon!

Oh, and in case you were wondering his side kick is named Baba Looey!

Six Degrees of Separation_ Gene Autry (entry 3 of 11)

According to the Oracle of Bacon web site, singing cowboy actor Gene Autry of "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" is three degrees of separation away from Kevin Bacon, for whom the site is named after.

Autry was in "Robin Hood of Texas" (1947) with Paul Bryar who was in "A Change of Season" (1980) with Steve Eastin who was in "Rails and Ties" (2007) with Bacon.

Tomorrow we will offer a special edition of this series with another actor known for a certain Christmas film.