Throttle from Biker Mice in Mars. dooode

Beetlejuice, my first crush. ! He taught me that I liked the inappropriate sexual advances of men, and that I preferred them to not exactly fit the mold.

http://blogs.glam.com/glamnest/files/2010/10/beetlejuice.JPG

Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe. I spent most of my spring and summer days in the woods, trying to step as quietly as I could across fallen leaves, finding broken branches to use as laser guns and swords, while wearing a skimask and goggles to look as much like him as I could.

Michelangelo from Teenage mutant ninja turtles. Carefree, dedicated, party animal.

the power rangers haha

MONKEY MAGIC !! pink flying cloud, kung fu skillz and an ever returning staff (the weapon, not employees, although i would want pigsy on my pay roll).

popeye the sailor. dude was hardcore. I wanted to eat my veggies because I knew for sure I would get jacked like him. Realistically I was just full of energy and ran around in the woods after dinner.

Figment (the dragon from Imagionationland at Disney)

Princess Moninoke. I spent many hours in the woods pretending I lived with wolves.

I’ve always been terrified of half human/half animal creatures like the Cowardly Lion.

Bic and Bac from Les Mondes Engloutis / Spartakus and The World Beneath the Sea

I have to say Data from The Goonies, coolest kid ever. ” I’m setting booty traps!”

The organism that is the TV-movie “Brink!”.

Definitely Batman

Edward Scissorhands.

ALF

‘Rusty’ the tin man, ‘Dandy’ the lion: the characters from that crazy animated tv show “the Wizard of Oz”!
‘Socrates’ the Scarecrow was my fave!

Doraemon from the comics. I think I started out drawing by copying the way the artist drew girls. I’ve improved since then… Onwards and upwards!

Bill Nye The Science Guy! I used to sit at home and and watch bill nye all weekend and dream about being a scientist… BILL BILL BILL! Those dreams were cut short when I couldn’t look at my Chemistry 30 textbook without feeling ill. One can always dream… right? OR a very close second would be that guy from ‘Art Attack’ on the Family Channel who would make giant pictures out of found objects. I always thought that was SO cool.

THE IRON GIANT!!!! I loved that movie. It influenced me when I was a kid not to always expect the worst out of people. And on an other note I also loved the art style in the animation how the colors seem to be faded in a way

MacGyver because he was a genius with a stick of gum!

For some reason it’s Penny from Inspector Gadget.

the street sharks because i wanted to be a shark when i was little.

Spinelli, the tough girl, on the show recess.

Sailor Moon. It inspired my friends and I to make our own crime fighting group called the Shadow Fighters.

Milo from the Phantom Tollbooth

The old Looney Tunes made me feel like I could be invincible as the characters were. I believe Daffy Duck encouraged me to hang upside down on our swing set, with my feet barely hanging onto a monkey bar. I quickly found that webbed duck feet would have been better to have as my face met the ground

I think its a tie between The Justice League, and Teen Titans

donatello the ninja turtle

Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking. Also Known as Pippi Longstocking: An imaginative rebel with style and spunk. I mean seriously, the girl can lift a horse.

Eddie Van Halen :R

All of the bad guys from the first series of Power Rangers.

tin tin. So much adventure and always packed a sidekick.

“I’m a shark and you can be a goldfish.” – my brother

Mafalda
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafalda)

I used to watch Sport Billy as a kid. And I really wanted to be like him. He was a little athlete travelling in time with an alarmclock. Plus he had a sportsbag with all kinds of usefull things in it (from screwdrivers to helicopters) which actually was a sort of ‘inspector-gadget-avant-la-lettre’

http://youtu.be/huJlDsfXf5U

Sailor Moon.
I love her outfit and she usually appear in my drawings

Willy Wonka – for the top hat, the cane and all his eccentricities. He also gave away his chocolate factory to a child. What a guy.

TAOTAO!!!
the little panda bear living in china with his mother and friends…..

Superted.

The octopus witch in the Little Mermaid!
I was persuaded I could become a witch, so I told everyone I had magic powers, wrote books of magic spells, and even tried to make magic potions…

Woody.

Captain Planet. He was my hero. I had a major crush on him when I was 10. I was quite disappointed when I realised that cartoons were not stylised reality and there wasn’t a man out there in blue/red lycra and with green hair for me.

lolo

Mr Sguiggle!

all the lion king puppies.
and the book-fell in love with it at les arts decoratifs,but young and broke.

Karlsson on the roof (Karlsson paa taget)

probably Jean-Luc Picard or William Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Honestly, Sonic the Hedgehog. I would play for hours to get to a level that I wanted to draw, then pause it and just try and recreate that vista in felt pen. I found a folder literally choc full of details from the sonic games the other week – I’d forgotten just how anal my obsession was!

SAMURAI CATS

probably “tim” or “tintin” from the comic book “the adventures of tintin”.

El Nombre without fail, he was like a mini zoro. Made me want to understand maths at the time, and get a pet hamster

Is this book by Captain Obvious, of course it’s “not a toy” it’s a bloody book!
Nice content, though.

As a child I couldn’t stop watching and reading “Babar” (French), I never got bored of him, his friend and the city Celesteville . I even watched the cartoon again a few months ago.

When I was about 9 years old i watched my first anime. It was “Princess Mononoke”. A brilliant studio Ghibli creation that changed my way of thinking, broadened my horizon and even influenced my taste in clothes, hairstyles and so on. Of course my loved character was princess Mononoke herself. I was hypnotized by her character because first of all, she was independent. She grew up with wolfs. Secondly, she was pretty, wearing that white fur,the mask, and having paint on her face. Finally and most importantly she cared about her home, her planet, the forest she lived in. She could have given her life just to save it. Before watching this anime i was sort of a so called spoiled brat but after that i understood something. We have to cherish what we have and always try to make a brighter future. I was really influenced by this character and i thank her because she made me who i am now.

Cheburashka : )

Han Solo. Brimming with sass. Though I didn’t have the backbone and dirty bar rumble experience to get me out of all the trouble Han Solo got me into…

“Atreyu” from Neverending Story

when i was a kid, i was inspired by a french cartoon, Barbapapa. http://www.dessinaimprimer.net/barbapapa/barbapapa020.gif i like this one, is a painter, its funny and i dont understand at all. im from santiago, chile. these character was very psychodelic!

Cheburashka!

Tom & Jerry! The most detailed and beautifully violent cartoons ever!

nono the little robot from ulysee31

i was the shortest kid in class complete with my shiny belt buckle. So, every time we played Hall of Justice – i was always the ATOM.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. I still have his haircut. And I’m a lady.

Indiana Jones, without a doubt. I was always exploring and going on adventures, sure I was going to discover something new.

Howard the Duck, which is a really disturbing movie upon revisiting as an adult.

I always wanted to be Little Pete (of Pete and Pete fame). He had a huge tattoo, a pirate radio station, a personal superhero, and was constantly thinking up new ways to be awesome.

Abelha Maia or the german original name “Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer” by Waldemar Bonsels

Sailor Moon caracters for sure!

Though not characters, I watched more nature programming than anything, so David Attenborough and Thomas Eisner. Otherwise, the Snowman by Raymond Briggs.

Maude from Harold and Maude.

The Green Power Ranger. The rouge power ranger, doing things on his own, for himself. I didn’t like him as much as when he became the White Ranger, but he was still pretty rad in the the first move with Ivan Ooze.

Oh boy! So many!!
But one of my greatest memories are with the Mr. Man and Little Miss books and characters! Remember those? They just conveyed happiness and even an attitude of being yourself.
Mr. Small and Little Miss Star were some of my faves : )

Puppets have had an enormous influence especially the yip yip martians from sesame street…remember them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ

Influence is a very interesting word. My earliest (and more importantly enjoyable) influence came when I was very young. My mother used to read my “In the Night Kitchen” by Maurice Sendak and I just loved it. I’d ask her to read it to me before bed and when I finally started reading I read it and read it and read it and hope that I would dream about being Mickey and falling into a giant vat of cake batter and magically escaping the bakers in a plane of bread dough. It’s a wonderful book; if you’ve never read it, even as an adult, I recommend you pick it up. It will probably do you some kind of good.

Later it was Bill Watterson’s Calvin and when “Little Nemo: The Dream Master” came out it was Nemo. I think I was really struck by the idea that I could be somewhere else in my sleeping or waking life and that maybe there was some kind of way to maybe kind of sort of bend the rules a little- like maybe the world (and what we could experience of the world) wasn’t so static. It sparked my imagination, you know? Like the thought that if I did some kind of dance, or if I just paid attention to something else close enough (or fell asleep) or fell off the monkey bars at school and bonked my head on the ground I could disappear and find a whole other world where unexpected, weird and awesome things that nobody ever got to see happened all the time.

I still think there’s some truth to that, although it feels now like one of those more adult “this is the way it works” truths. I mean I think if you look hard enough you’ll see the things you’re looking for. We do live in your own secret worlds. Or at least I do.

Rachel from Blade Runner
(http://images.wikia.com/bladerunner/images/1/19/Rachael-blade-runner.jpg)

When I was a child I wasn’t allowed to watch the cult films my father loved watching.
When my mother was out or went to bed. I would sneak into the living room – I remember Rachael from Blade Runner. Beautiful, venerable and loveable – yet powerful.
– Even today, Im 18, I have the same hairstyle and bushy brows.

Calvin… and usually Hobbes.

Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town

Zanardi by Andrea Pazienza

|| CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH || for sure influenced me !

Rei Ayanami, from Evangelion!!

Cheburashka also known as Topple ! ! )

KING BLUEBEARD
Lithuanian style

MITCH BUCHANAN (mitch buchanan)
was so sexy watching him running through those waves… gosh!

goku for sure!

the silent assistant of gyro gearloose called “little helper” was one of my favourite characters as a child. i even tried to build robots like him myself, back then

As a kid, the character that most influenced me was Johnny Bravo. So much so that I copied his mouth spray move, but not with mouth spray. Foolishly enough, I used perfume.

Don’t try it.

Pikachu from Pokemon. I Loved Pokemon SO MUCH and It still makes me a little bit sad that it’s not actually possible for me to own my own Pikachu, hehe. That feeling is what continues to grab my interest about animation and character design today…creating creatures and worlds that you WISH existed and making them feel real. Forming a connection to a 2d drawing or some little pixels on a gameboy screen is really quite crazy but judging from the replies here everyone has done it and I love that!

This would be an amazing book to add to by shelf…especially for being an art educator. So perfect.

PAPA SMURF…

Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Without a doubt UFO Robo Grendizer.

Danger Mouse!

Lucky luke – shoots faster than his own shadow…

I spent so much time drawing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Huckleberry Finn

Ren & Stimpy for sure! Teaching me randomness is a part of life that always presents itself. randomly.

Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) in Beetlejuice. She was the first celebrity crush I had and I instantly fell in love with her after seeing Beetlejuice years ago. Her character taught me that there is beauty in the darker things in life which at first glance may go unnoticed.

All those crazy characters from Don Martin of Mad maagazine.

Brian Robeson, from the Gary Paulsen books. That kid was such a bad ass.

definitely Ren Höek
(from “The Ren and Stimpy Show” of course)

Krumm from AAAHH!!! Real Monsters

Hobbes

Captain Planet

I gotta say Bilbo Baggins for his heroism in The Hobbit

Courage The Cowardly Dog

HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey (my dad is a Kubrick fanatic who showed me his stuff early on)

The Riddler from the old Batman cartoon.. he was just so weird!

Am I too late?
What is time anyways.

Where’s Waldo. I always wanted to know why is he hiding? What is he hiding from? Why wear such an obvious getup to hid?

Waldo is my hero because he hides from all, but is found by everyone. He is like God, yet comes with a shorter book that is more fulfilling for one lifetime.

I found your page today and was tempted to write your name down. But how do I know I will remember to remember, why should I write anything down when the enjoyment is finding in the first place.

Today, jeff can be my waldo.

Wendy from the Adams family. I was brought up in a sarcastic family, so even as a kid I was described as a smart alec. But mostly I just like her generally dgaf nature.

Ash Mothatruckin Ketchum. When i was a kid i frickin loved Pokemon (still do); all the different pocket monsters were so cool and out of the ordinary, my 7 year old self didn’t know how to handle himself other than to go around dressed like his favorite cartoon character (Ash). Ash Ketchum inspires me to this day because even though he isn’t the best Pokemon trainer around he still believes in his heart that one day he will be the very best that no one ever was. He loves Pokemon and being a Pokemon trainer. I try to reflect these ideals with my passion for art. Obviously I’m not the best artist, but I love creating enough to pursue it in hopes that one day my art will truly be great: the best there ever was even.

P.S.
When I’m feeling crappy about my art I put on my old Ash Ketchum hat I used to wear when I was a kid and continue working.

Babar the Elephant,,,,or there’s also Anno i.e. Anno’s Journey etc. So many more to choose from! Glad to hear about Pow Wow II,,it’s gonna be Rad.

Jesus from ‘the bible’.
He could do crazy magic tricks and stuff, like making the fish walk and slaying dragons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus

Calvin!!!

I wanna see who else can remember him: Freakazoid!!

ALF: he is a goober.

Skeletor from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe He used to scare me but I also liked him and his castle was way cooler then Eternia : )

Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro

tintin

since I was a kid, mom showed me cartoons. felix the cat has been without doubt one of my biggest influences. felix being one of the first animated characters cartoons mom showed me.

I was influenced by pugsly addams. He was always picked on by his sister and only really ever let her do that because he was kind and he wanted to spend time with her. That kind of reminds me a lot of my childhood with me and my twin, except she wasn’t exactly a sadist. I just always identified with him.

In 1990, at the age of 8, I moved from the US to India and lived there for 4 years. At first I was miserable when I realized I no longer had the ninja turtles, transformers, batman. But at my school, all the kids were into The Adventures of TinTin. The famous globe travelling reporter. Reading those comics helped me escape from the culture shock and TinTin’s stories taught me about other cultures and how to treat others. He was my hero. I discovered a new batman. And a way to relate to my indian schoolmates. And his adventures were way funny!

ok i realized that doesn’t count.
then opcion b
all of the above

Momotaró. Borned inside of a huge peach, flowing in the river.

Krumm from Ah Real Monsters! all the way.