The goal of this proposal is to create a comic that captures the classic look of the cartoons while giving the stories a more all-ages spin--maintining the appeal to kids with the colorful costumes, action, and super-villains, but adding more sophistication to the plot-lines and deepening the characterizations for older readers.  This approach is especially for those who remember the programs from their youth and would read new stories if they were interesting to them.

This proposal brings all the various cartoons together into one wild universe, set in an unspecified future when mankind has mastered travel between the stars and has begun to colonize other worlds.

I envision the comic as one giant-sized monthly magazine made up of short, individual features that add up to one complete and satisfying story.

I also want to create the cartoon universe these characters inhabit big enough and flexible enough to permit Frankenstein Jr. and Atom Ant to share space with Space Ghost and Birdman.  The Baron/Rude series NEXUS showed how such cartoon elements could work together with more dramatic aspects to acheive an excellent effect.

To illustrate this proposal, I searched the internet for as many good pictures of the characters as I could find that were large enough to properly capture all of the detail in the character's depiction.  In some cases, I was actually able to find some of the original model sheets created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera in the sixties.  A full set of these model sheets for all the characters I'd like to use would be wonderful.  Unfortunately, while the images appear large on the page, they are actually quite small.  So, while you can print these images out, the quality of the printed image will not be high-- or the image may print out in high quality but be very small.  Still I hope that these pages give an idea of how visually attractive and diverse these characters are.