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Classic Cartoon Mural in Montreal
 October 23, 2009 2:39 am
After the stress of judging the Ottawa International Animation Festival (more about that soon), I decided to unwind for a few days in the much more lively Canadian city of Montreal. Even there, I couldn’t escape cartoons. I stumbled upon this large and unconventional graffiti mural that incorporates vintage cartoon characters like Bosko, Honey, Betty Boop, Buddy, and Krazy Kat.The mural, which is a good eighty feet long, gives more visibility to these characters than anything their parent studios have done with them in a long time. If you want to see the piece in person, it’s off of rue St. Catherine, a few blocks east of rue St. Denis. Otherwise, click on the image below to see my quick-and-dirty stitch job of the mural.
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There’s a huge Terrytoons style Mighty Mouse off Notre Dame and Atwater in St-Henri also.
from flickr:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1409/543250129_ce1a94ecf0.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2445193649_1598505c93.jpg
That’s a cool discovery!
Also at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal, they have Betty Boop on the ladies’ washroom door, and Felix the Cat on the men’s washroom door.
(in a similar vein, Big Al’s Diner in Blaine, WA has a huge picture of Popeye on the men’s room and Olive Oyl for the women’s….plus a big Betty Boop statue and other cartoon figures. I took some pictures last year. http://scuzzbopper.blogspot.com/2008/08/roads-to-madness.html)
Are you still in Montreal? There’s a Stop-Motion festival in Montreal this week-end.
That looks very well made. I am curious as to what inspired these murals especially in a place like Montreal.
I think I actually posted this in a comment a while back, but here it is again:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-XxTb_P5j8s/SD3_7ts6lOI/AAAAAAAAAOo/eFXj4DviH88/s1600-h/Snow+White.jpg
There are a few of these on a building in Verdun (south-ish Montreal).
Nice find – good to see vintage cartoon characters are appreciated by Canadian graffiti artists.
@Eric: That piece reminds me of this hilarious graffiti artist Banksy – maybe its one of his?
It’s good to see Canadians like me to have a admiration with vintage cartoons mostly from the silent era giving some justices that they don’t at their theaters glories.
That’s remember me that in the side of a Museum in Trois-Rivieres, they have a Woody Woodpecker graffiti. Maybe if i take a look with my digital camera, i will send you.
Wow, thanks for posting this! And off St. Catherine’s… where just about anything can and will happen to you if you wait long enough ;).
I don’t see Buddy in there, but I do see Scrappy. Okay, now it’s official. I’m an animation nerd.