HAL & AL Nationwide Campaign for 2009!

HAL & AL Coming To CLEVELAND, OHIO! Starting In March!

Speaking of getting bigger and bigger... Hal & Al will soon be on the air in Cleveland, Ohio! Starting in March on Cox Channel 45! Don't know the time or how it will run yet though (could be once a week or daily) as this news is just breaking!

02/09/09 UPDATE: Beginning Feb. 16th, Cox 45 will be running it every weekday at 8am!

SCOTT INNES - "CARTOONS & COUNTRY MUSIC" Book Cover!

This weekend I sit and finish up writing Scott Innes' new book and putting the final touches on it. It's called Cartoons & Country Music - My Life in the Shadow of a Dog! It's slated for the printer and I have to get it out of here by today or Monday. It's been completely updated from the last one version that was released in 2002 and this will be the only book that he does again for a long time so I'm trying to get it right. Older chapters had stuff added to them and there are a bunch of new chapters added, such as a chapter on me and our working relationship with Hal & Al and other of Scott's PR stuff that I've done. There's also a new chapter about Hal & Al, which is quite good. Hal & Al will have their own book at some point since it seems to be getting bigger and bigger. This book will also have a LOT of photos in it, and that was where most of my time yesterday was focused on getting them in order and labeled correctly. Here's the cover art for the book. Eagle-eyed fans of mine will see that this cover is similar to the Scooby-Doo "Earth Day" comic cover I did in April 2008.

Some will ask why does Scott even have a book? Is it a vanity project? It is that, but the original book came into play because he kept getting asked how he got the job of voicing Scooby-Doo back between 1997-2002 for the movies. He got so tired of being asked it, and telling a shortened version of it, that he thought he'd write a book about it where it explained it all in depth. It's a good chapter of the book. Hanging out with him when I travel down south for Hal & Al stuff, people do still ask him how he got the part, so now he'll have this new book to promote. He has met a LOT of famous celebrities and done some cool stuff so it's a fun read. Kids would also enjoy it since it will also be in a bigger font and like a 'young adult novel' melded with a scrapbook.

Scott's still doing the voices of Scooby and Shaggy (Shaggy even more now) and has been for since 1997 for licensed products and such as the new Scooby-Doo Interactive DVD Game that came out late last year where he did Shaggy's voice. Hopefully he'll be doing the DVD movies again soon!

This new book should be out by early March and available online at his website, which is located at http://www.scottinnes.com/!

THE LONE RANGER Rides Again! - Pen & Ink Artwork!

Here's a Lone Ranger piece of art I did the other day as a warm up. I just got the The Lone Ranger: 75th Anniversary - Seasons 1 and 2 from Amazon and it's a great set that features the first two complete seasons of the original TV Show! It's expensive, but worth it!Clayton Moore was great in the part! This piece or art was penciled on cheap paper and then I taped it to the back of a good piece of art paper and 'light tabled' it for the inking stage. All told it was done in about two hours. Enjoy!

The Year That Was POWER RANGERS JUNGLE FURY!

As I type this, the last of my final artwork for Power Rangers Jungle Fury is being uploaded for the final approval stage. This is the last project I'll be doing (unless they wish to do more) and I expect it to approved in two weeks time with no problems. Candace Bell did a great job helping me get this all done and colored on time and we think it came out great!

It was February of last year that I started doing work on this version of Power Rangers and I have to say that it was fun. From looking at all the years and designs that I've seen from previous versions of Power Rangers over the decade and a half that it's been around, Jungle Fury has the best designs out of all of them and had me interested in it from the beginning. I can see why kids are enthralled with it since it has aspects of all the cool stuff that I had growing up such as Godzilla, Shogun Warriors, Ultraman, and a dash of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan mixed in.

When I was first offered the Rangers, it was the day after I turned in the last of my Handy Manny artwork on November 1st of 2007, I knew that I would be working on it then and I decided to see what the show was going to look like. I was hesitant at first thinking that it might be like a lot of the designs for the earlier versions of it, and it didn't really thrill me, so I thought that it might just be a job with a really nice check. One of my artist friends, Chris Bailey, who was the CGI Special Effects Supervisor on the Alvin and The Chipmunks movie told me early on that the new designs were great for the show and that I'd have a lot of fun with it. He was right in the end. The show has run it's course with the storyline ending with 32 episodes and they did leave it open-ended to bring it back. So who knows what they will do... At any rate, I post this this pic as a teaser for some of the newer images I'll post here soon. I posted the rough sketch of this artwork a while ago and now here is the final art for it! Enjoy!

HAL & AL Pick Up More TV Stations & Viewers!

Hollywood Hal & Rhinestone Al
The popular Childrens TV Program From the creators of Scott Innes & Jim Hogg with artist Scott Neely, which is already in FIVE other states continues to GROW!

Starting in early Feburary 2009, Hal & Al will be seen in most of the Great State of Tennessee (via Charter Media)!

Look out! COLUMBIA, LEWISBURG, LAWRENCEBURG, PULASKI, SPRINGHILL, THOMPSON STATION, HOHENWALD, COOKEVILLE, CROSSVILLE, SPARTA, LEBANON, WATERTOWN & ALEXANDRIA MARKETSON ON CHANNEL 6!

Hal & Al are on their way!

SCOOBY-DOO Meets THE FOREST PHANTOM! - Comic For Sweden!

Here is a new Scooby-Doo story I just did for Schibsted over in Sweden. Scooby-Doo and the gang meet The Forest Phantom! For any Scooby fans in America who'd like to read the story, I've posted all 12 pages of the story in English so that you can read and enjoy it since it will most likely never be printed in America! I like the way it came out and Candace did a stellar job on the colors as well since it was a limited color job. There are quite a few panel layouts that I really like as well. I also added nods to my friends Scott Innes and Jim Hogg in it, and I also added my friend and all-around great artist, Mike Manley, who is the forest ranger on page two, panel one! Click on each page image so you can read the bigger version! Enjoy!

HAL & AL Get OBAMICON'd!

Here's a new poster idea that I tried on a free site where you can upload your pics and create a poster in the Obama election-style posters that were created this past year. I did one of Hal & Al and I think it came out cool! What do you think?

If you'd like to try your own hand at it with your photos, go to http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/

HAL & AL Meet The Globetrotter's WILDKAT EDGERSON!

This past weekend, Hollywood Hal & Rhinestone Al met the Harlem Globetrotter's Wildkat Edgerson in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and we shot a new segment with Wildkat for an upcoming episode and also for a future DVD segment! A lucky group of kids in Baton Rouge got to learn some great tips and tricks from Wildkat himself as Rhinestone Al acted as an assistant coach!

Wildkat Edgerson is the Globetrotters’ gentle giant, and has become a favorite among his teammates and fans with his retro style, work ethic, personality and energy. And, of course, fans young and old dig the afro. This New Orleans, La., native is entering his sixth season with the Globetrotters.

For more on him, you can go to the Globetrotters website!
http://b.casalemedia.com/V2/44508/86956/index.html?XX

HAL & AL in COUNTRY WEEKLY Again!

Hal & Al made it into the January 12th issue of Country Weekly magazine again! This time for the picture of Nashville star Chris Young who's picture I posted holding our Hal & Al music CD on this blog back in November. It finally saw print and we are happy to have Chris Young on the Hal & Al bandwagon! Thanks to Larry Holden at Country Weekly as well! You can click on the images to see them larger!

MERRY CHRISTMAS SCOOBY-STYLE!

As Scooby says above, Merry Christmas to all those who like to view and read my blog of current goings-on at the Neely Studio! This Scooby vector art was sure an old file, the final art was finalized back on July 17, 2000! Yikes! Time sure does fly! Sorry I've not been posting any new art since my trip ended and I came back, but as soon as the plane hit the tarmac back in Philly I was hammered with the last Power Rangers Jungle Fury project to do, which was finished yesterday artwise and now it just has to be colored. Later this week, I also have to finish a new Scooby project for overseas as well! I also have two possible new jobs to do in the coming month of January so 2009 looks to be off to a great start as well! Also of note, Hal & Al may be on local TV in North and South Carolina very soon as well! It just keeps building!

HOLLYWOOD HAL & RHINESTONE AL With Ronald McDonald In The 2008 Baton Rouge Christmas Parade!

On December 13th, Hal & Al teamed up with Ronald Mcdonald to ride in the 2008 Baton Rouge Christmas Parade in a New Robinson Brothers Ford truck! It was the kid-favorite of the night...Ronald is the most famous face in the world 2nd only to Santa Claus!

Here's a link to YouTube for some footage of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRO4FceqEAE

Enjoy the pics!

Snow in WANNABEEVILLE, USA...Or Rather Baton Rouge!

Here's a pic Jim Hogg took of the Hal & Al trailer in his yard after it ACTUALLY SNOWED down in Louisiana on December 11th! New Orleans and Baton Rouge got about 3"- 5" of snow and it hasn't snowed there in like 10 years! I though it was Mother Nature weeping since I left and came back up north! Haha! This would make a nice Christmas card though, don't you think? Scott Innes shot some video of it as it was coming down.

Here's the YouTube link for his video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbrIy40XBhk

Another HAL & AL Appearance At A Walmart 'TOYS FOR TOTS' Event On December 12th!