Sometimes I just have to step in and say, "No, I wasn't high on anything." If you knew how much work went into this you'd realize how impossible that would be. And I was never a drug user.

@fernwoodsfinest

6 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant piece of creativity Sally!

@MrCrispian

4 жыл бұрын

your great...so is kim deitch....everyone thinks you took loads of DMT to inspire you..but being a artist myself i know how much work goes into these masterpieces..

@MrCrispian

4 жыл бұрын

Terence mckenna mentioned you and quasi at the quackadero as the nearest thing to a DMT trip he ever saw...so in one way hes turned alot of people on to you..he was a good intelligent man.

@Zinwaq

3 жыл бұрын

How much work has gone into this? It looks old and in the style of early Sesame Street animation (1970s). I really like this.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zinwaq A lot of work, trust me!

ever since watching this when I was 18 I ve always said "my plea-s-ure" like anita does. People usually give me a weird look, but it always makes me smile and think of this awesome work

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Vanessa, that makes me laugh!

Thanks, Phoenix. It's kind of depressing how many people think it takes drugs to come up with unusual ideas. Blame it on what? I'm not sure.

@DenovaRaymaker59

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry did you say unusual? Life keeps on flashing before your eyes.

@cameronmee7634

3 жыл бұрын

Fell into that trap. My ideas are much more interesting now I've achieved sobriety. It's a myth propelled by those who believe Hendrix was only good due to acid use etc.

@junkachu4919

2 жыл бұрын

Unusual ideas don't always have a real message.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

@@junkachu4919 agreed

I can't stop watching these. New cartoons just don't compare. This is so creative and artistic. I show these to my three-year-old!

@sallycruikshank

9 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks Nadine. I'll be moving this and many other films of mine over to Vimeo in months ahead so if you can't find it here look there. KZread is most unkind to artists. (More than 2 million views, less than $200)

@herzenverbrecher

9 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank Thanks for the heads up!

@jestrel

5 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank Still up to this day. And it is very beautiful.

@armyshope

3 жыл бұрын

Nah new ones aren't this funny

@junkachu4919

2 жыл бұрын

That's scary.

I watched this high. I laugh hysterically for the first 5 mins then spent the next 3 mins curled up in a ball crying and confused in a state of panic.

@MaLoWare

10 жыл бұрын

because high is a mast... not as a novice of 420dew

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

MiguelMValentine I'm with you on that Miguel-

@haggardmelon

4 жыл бұрын

Whoa! What are you getting high on, dude?

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@B0omer96 makes sense. Congrats on 7 years.

@junkachu4919

2 жыл бұрын

Because the person who came up with this not a good person. Black face is not a good thing, even in the guise of a drug trip.

the world needs more stuff like this . . . .

@sallycruikshank

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Keisha

Dear Sally, I first saw this when I was 9, the year it was made. At the time I was lucky enough to be under the care and influence of Freude Bartlett who showed it to us kids in her living room on a film projector, a few yards from the Serious Business Company building where she taught me to edit film with razors and tape. I was so inspired, many flip books were to follow and eventually became a film maker. I loved this piece so much and it is even better than I remember. One surprise as an adult is that I missed the seemingly obvious plot parallel to Sephen Kings Carrie, so popular at the time and now again. Also, only now do I see the influence on your work from pre code musicals from Berkely to DeMille! Ub Iwerks and Max Fleisher aren't exactly rolling in their graves either! More like dancing with the dancing daisies. Thanks for being brilliant and inspiring so many modern animator e with the freedom and imagination of your work.

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this interesting and nice message. Freude did so much for independent animators, and for kids too! So sad that she's gone. And oh yeah I love those pre code musicals. Good Luck to you and thanks for sharing this memory of Freude.

Yo this is the kinda trippy stuff cartoons are too scared to do. Well done this is great

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

+Syna Rapaver thank you thank you Syna!

I love the sound Anita makes when she laughs :)

Took a peek at my spam comments and discovered internet "psychics" have tried to lure customers through this video's comment section. Yikes.

@daledavison3036

10 жыл бұрын

This is fabulous! Thanks, Sally.

@lindapearl8244

9 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@MarkAziz33

9 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank Sally, you're the best ever, I hope the rest of your years are kind and wonderous!

@sallycruikshank

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Aziz Mark, thanks for all your kind comments! All best wishes to you too, Sally

@minmax5

7 жыл бұрын

Incredible irony, love all your animation!

you are probably one of, if not the biggest inspirations to me. i love how you believe that animation is limitless in the sense that anything can happen at all. i want to create worlds and characters similar to yours one day, and bring them to life.

@sallycruikshank

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your thoughtful and encouraging post. Stay inspired!!

I have always enjoyed this weird wonderful little universe of characters. They are so crazy. I really love "Don't Go In the Basement" too.

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, so nice.

@Cajek2

Жыл бұрын

Whoa… the music video to don’t go in the basement is really similar to this… Surreal and liminal

I just always get such a weird, happy feeling from this cartoon. I have been coming back to this animation since i was 16 and am 25 now

Especially love the opening-- it's an animated Johnson & Smith catalog!

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

I feel like a child watching cartoons for first time ❤

@sallycruikshank

11 ай бұрын

Ah gee that must be a nice feeling!

cant stop watching animations like this, good stuff

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

thanks

Snozzy: is this your idea of a joke!? Anita: LMAO

oh god, I've stumbled over a fever dream

I don't get it.....why doesn't this woman have a million or more viewers/subscribers? Why is there no documentary on her? Once we lose people like her.....they are gone. Let's appreciate at them NOW so they know their appreciated while we are fortunate enough to have them still with us.

@ModernMedusa

Жыл бұрын

I hope someone does do a documentary on her!

@thinkbolt

4 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lamgwalsgK2on9Y.html

phenomenal! marvelous! don't know where all the artists unafraid of getting a little noodley like this ran off to, glad your work's here at least! :^)

@sallycruikshank

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Elijah

Hey all if I haven't replied to your comment it's because this new system of google + managing the comments makes it ?impossible? to reply to messages that came in before google+ took over. Not happy about this.

@MaLoWare

10 жыл бұрын

sally let us know if you are ok

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

MaLo Ware sure, still hanging in here

@thamsanqandlovu4037

5 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank anyone here

@greenseagull5273

5 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank hi!! We‘re a British band on an independent label. Wanted to know if it might be possible to get permission to use make me psychic for a promo video for our next single. The animation and our music just fits so perfectly together. Our email: greenseagullband@gmail.com

My favourite short animation, your style is so captivating

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much!

It amazes me everytime I see these how influenced I was by you. Like not just art but like ideas about life all kinds of things. it feels good like Im home whenever I come here. Thank you

@sallycruikshank

9 күн бұрын

This is a wonderful, strange thing for me to read. I wish I had experienced something like that when .I was working in animation. Thank you. Makes me think of a lot of things. Stay inspired.

Im constantly returning to this. This is easily one of the greatest things ive seen

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

wow, thank you.

I kinda... want a show of this! Thought I recognized this style from the Spongebob Halloween special! Love the weird silliness!

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Yoou've got a good eye to recognize this from the Spongebob Halloween special.

This video changed my life 5 years ago. I love it!

I had seen "Quasi at the Quackadero" sometime between its 1975 release and 1982. In late '82 or early '83, a traveling animation cel sales show set up shop in the OSU student union in Columbus, OH. Bein' as how I was a poverty-stricken grad student, I had no intention of buying their overpriced, high-demand stuff. Just to parade my superior knowledge and taste, I asked the guy behind the table, "Got any Sally Cruikshank?" He grinned, reached under the table, and pulled out a couple of Quasis and one Anita. I hesitated at the prices, so he knocked off a few bucks, and the cel of Anita getting dressed for Snozzy's party (approx. 2:33) became mine. Until I stumbled over "Make Me Psychic" on TV one Saturday in the late 80s, I had wondered, "Why is Anita biting her dress?" When the title appeared, I grabbed the phone and called my best friend. Got his machine. Left a brief message. "Dang! You're not home! 'Make Me Psychic' is on on A&E!" After becoming happier than ever that I owned that image of Anita, my phone rang. My friend had heard the last sentence of my message and had immediately flipped on his set. He hadn't seen any of Ms. Cruikshank's work, apart from my cel, until then. He was wowed. I still own Anita. She's one of the first things people see when they enter our house. She was very nicely matted in black topped with red when I bought her, and is now in a nifty 3/4" wide, glossy black rounded frame. She seems happy on our yellow walls. Thank you, Ms. Cruikshank, for your wonderful work. Thank you especially for creating Anita. It's an honor to own a tiny portion of her.

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

Hi H.A.H, I've been away for two weeks and just read your great message. That must have been the Lainzberg Gallery that was selling the cels. Glad you still have the cel. Cheers! Sally

@haplessasshole9615

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind reply. It has made my day to receive a personal (though electronic) response from an artist whose work I admire so much. Yup, the group of traveling cel sellers was Lainzberg, all right. Couldn't come up with the name on Ye Olde Mental Rolodex, but a name like Lainzberg tends to ring a bell *loudly*! I'd like to request a favor, though. (Gracious -- I feel bashful just typing this!) Is there some way you could send me an autograph to display along with Anita? I've wished for one ever since I bought her. Of course, I never knew where, when, or how I might snag yer signature. I still don't know how it might be arranged -- I'm not *about* to post my real name, address, or whatever here on KZread! I may be nuts, but I ain't totally oblivious. I feel a little creepy just asking you that -- a little stalker-ish, really. Given your nice message, though, I thought I'd take a shot at it! Again, I appreciate your taking the time to drop me a line. I hope your two weeks away from home were a *fun* two weeks. Oh, yeah -- guess who's a writer?

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

write me at gmail, funonmars, and I'll send you a postcard of Anita signed.

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

Hey, did you see my message below

@lemuriadawn

7 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank Please send a signed postcard!! Brian Baskoff 894 Hart st Brooklyn ny 11237 That would be a dream come true!!!!

This is sooooo trippy😛

@jaded151

7 жыл бұрын

no shit

Quasi looks pretty good for being millions of years old now.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Funny!

I love you Sally so much I love your works I love them soo much. You really inspire me !!!! Your style is everything I LOVE IT!!!!! ♥️

@sallycruikshank

12 күн бұрын

Thanks so much! Stay inspired!!

This is great! I think I may have seen this, years ago, on KQED back in San Francisco. Great animation, great style!

Thanks for your nice comments, everyone. Happy Holidays. You cheer me up! Sally

Just tripping... just tripping.

I'm so glad I found this! As a kid, I remember seeing this short featured on a segment of some evening news show, heralding the arrival of 'Nu-Wave Animation". Just from that quick glimpse, the imagery and music were unforgettable. Nothing I searched for over the years seemed to click until just today, out of the blue, I finally remember the name of the short, 'Make Me Psychic' ! I had always wanted to see more of this series, your work is very colorful, quirky, and just a hint of playful subversiveness ;)

Hi- I think Quasi's eyeball outfit predates the Residents- correct me if I'm wrong- wikipedia puts the eyeball head dress for Residents in the 80's, and this was 1978.

@paranormalvideo4599

3 жыл бұрын

Good chance. And I absolutely could imagine you collaborating with them aesthetically, though I don't see evidence of that on your wiki page. Have you?

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@@paranormalvideo4599 never collaborated with them though we were all San Francisco based.

wow, i saw these on "Night Flight" in the early 80s and they've been festering in the back of my brain ever since. great to see these! now i don't have to fumble when people ask: "what artists are you influenced by?" thanks Sal!!

For some reason these films really spooked me as a little kid when they aired on Swedish TV. These days I can appreciate them more. :)

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty amazed they even aired them in Sweden.

@Wolfogre

5 жыл бұрын

Back then, Swedish public TV had a flair for the unusual and delightfully weird. Especially for childrens' shows. :)

i love love loooove these cartoons!! I've watched these before almost 27 years ago, imagine that...

i just found out about you today and your creations are delightful, showing these to my friends, amazingly strange

@sallycruikshank

6 ай бұрын

Ha ha thanks. Welcome to my world!

Hi, Sally. I'm glad to hear that you created this without being under the influence of anything. You are a true artistic creator and genius! This is one of my favorite things; a true work of art! Thank you for sharing your gift with the rest of humanity,

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Emmyboo!

Memory is so strange, isn't it? I remember jingles for tv ads from the 50's. "Stronger than Dirt"

This is such a cool cartoon. It really makes me want to animate.

I don't think it's possible to watch this too many times. It's just perfect in every way.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

I think you might enjoy an interview with me in "The Comics Journal" #307 Winter-Spring 2021

@beckoning-chasm

3 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank Thank you! I'll look for that.

Years later and the creator of this short is still commenting on this KZread video. Amazing, Sally! I just accidentally stumbled upon this after watching videos of psychics being wrong, lol!

My hat off to you, Sally Cruikshank for an image sticking in my head ever since I was a young kid!! My family was watching a PBS animation show once in the 70s and they utilized the clip of Anita getting asked out and having the heart arrows in her eyes and that was so amusing to me I wanted to see more! My kind of kookiness for sure! Now that we have everything at our fingertips in this day and age I Googled it and found not only the character but your channel too!!

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, that's great! Glad you found it!

@jons.6216

2 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank also the part of Anita staring daggers is a gif as well! I knew I had also seen that one!!

Wow I think I last saw this at least 20 years ago, or probably more, and I can't believe how many of the images came back to me as I watched. Thanks for posting this!

This video is a piece of art. One of the best trippiest things in the world. Thank you for create this!

Sally, I love how your cartoons are like the old Fleischers, with a crazy-cool 70's-Cruikshank twist! By the way, I noticed the flapper girl at 4:51, and a cute one at 4:26 that bears a striking resemblance to Mary Pickford!

This is really silly and I like it. It makes me feel silly too, but of course I won't go buying a thing to make me phsychic.

Sally, you never cease to amaze me with your stuff. People might think you're on drugs, but everyone says that about mind-bending art. You're like David Lynch or Dali (also non-users who made cool, weird stuff)

Hey Sally ! this work is timeless. A friend of mine showed me your cartoons and i got impressed , just like a child, I felt the same things that i used to feel when I was younger, I really believe we all keep a child in us, i just like to remember that it is right here. Thank you for your art . A big hug from México.

everytime i watch it the story changes...

@LuisGRification

8 жыл бұрын

+yashouberry I know! I watch this video everytime I'm high and always changes

Thanks Sally...I about DIED when she pulled his toupee off....

I read an article in Comics Scene about these cartoons years ago. Now I can finally see them. Thanks for sharing!

Watching this tired at 1 AM is an experience. I don't know what is happening in this if anything coherent even is happening, but I love it

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Just another dream

Hello Sally, i must say this is amazing. I absolutely love this animation for the fact of how unique the design is and how much fun it is (i can imagine it was pretty fun making it as well.) Although i know this wasn't made for trippy purposes, you have to admit, this is pretty damn trippy and i like watching it on a lazy sunday after a good bowl of greenery. Thank you for this creation, i promise i will show my kids "Make me Psychic" if i have any. Once again, splendid work, much praise

i like the way you worked with Rose like Kim worked with Simon...family are great

I wish I could visit that novelty shop here, they look like they have the coolest stuff :)

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

You could have bought your hat there.

This was so settling and relaxing. Best time to watch it when you want to go to sleep. :3

Amazing cartoon.Snozzy in his car looks like a Snapping Turk from Yellow Submarine.

@paranormalvideo4599

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that style has always unnerved me... which I like.

@michaelwertzy9808

3 жыл бұрын

"Snapping Turtle Turks"!

Oh boy. If this were a cartoon with a whole series, I'd watch the shit out of it. xD

this is now my anti-drug

I remember seeing that cartoon on USA's Night Flight program back around '83. I defintely think that it's great. Thanks!

That was so much FUN ! I wish more cartoons had this spirit. Your choice of music was great ,too. (I recognized the names from The Cheap Suit Serenaders.)

I absolutely love your world and characters! so funny and whimsical! Great!

Sally is the greatest! These Anita & Fozzy films still hold up for pure crazed fun!

This is AMAZING!!!!!!! Coming back to watch again in 2021

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Come back again in 2022!

i loooooooove this!! used to watch these shorts on a cable station (wht)in new york city back in the days!!!

6:25 this is one remake of "Carrie" I am all down for. Thumbs up lady!

Omg OMG!!! i love it!! and other cartoons too btw.. this cartoon is very relaxing

Thanks AeonsOld. In fact it's almost impossible even to make hand drawn animation anymore- the camera services have quit the business, theatres run digital and there's no revenue source.

I really like your animation style here, Sally! It reminds me of the animated segments on Sesame Street I'd see as a kid; they were always my favorites, especially the pinball segments. Musically, there's definitely shades of Spongebob in here as well. Lovely work!

Yay!!! Another masterpiece! Thanks, Sally

Thank you so much for sharing this-and for creating it! I saw this film short on HBO in the middle of the night sometime around 1981 and have since tried to remember what this was! Mystery FINALLY solved!

@sallycruikshank

4 жыл бұрын

Dustin, Always so much fun when you remember something for a long time but can't find it, and then you do...

wow, this is a lot of fun to watch, I wish I knew about this channel back when I had an art of the movies class, these short films are amazing!

I remember seeing this in one of my Cinema classes and it being an immediate inspiration to me; I ended up basing my final project in that class on your style though it didn't turn out anywhere near as good. Really appreciate your work!

@sallycruikshank

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Spollywood.

I vaguely remember seeing this somewhere when I was younger. Regardless I've been perusing your numerous videos and I must say that I really dig your stuff! Five stars all the way!

@jo3my3rs Thanks. This was all hand drawn animation with inked and painted cels. I don't do much animation anymore, but when I do it's with Flash, which has made everyone lazy. But the old process was a monster.

Sally thanks for signing my fan mail, love your work. All the best Paul Todd UK

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Todd You're welcome, Paul. Most of the autograph requests don't seem to quite know who I am, but not you. Cheers,

Beautiful animation Sally. I can understand your situation, as I too make bizarre animation which is often misunderstood. I think it's unfortunate that our culture is so quick to associate imagination with drug use.

Very well made. Like the abstract meaning it shows to the audience. A very clever cartoon. Sally is amazing.

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

+Cele Larrain Thank you, Cele. Nice comments like yours are such a confidence booster.

I love your style of animation/art.

@sallycruikshank

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Oh, no problem, I wasn't complaining. I just meant you could ignore that question now since you already answered it here. I have an interest in voice acting and I really enjoyed the voices in these two. I did also ask what Quasi and Anita's relationship is exactly.

Equal in anarchy and invention to the early Fleischer Bros. cartoons: wonderful!

@sallycruikshank

4 жыл бұрын

Wow that's quite a compliment, thank you

That art style. This was definitely made by the same people who made some of the old Nickelodeon bumpers. The ones with the dinosaurs singing. People born after the late 90's have no clue what I'm talking about, but we 80's babies KNOW.

Please please please make more Anita, quasi, and snozzy films like this. I would be so grateful!

Sally i am back once and again and discover something new every time. This is classic, acid, funny, real, fantastic, such a great style!!!! you make me travel to the past , to the future, to those secrets place in the mind....

@Marin4DH Thanks Marin4DH for still enjoying them and your nice comments.

Me tonight whilst intoxicated: dude...what? Two weeks later after rediscovering this: damn, this is stupid. Kind of reminds me of Carrie

I just saw this film at an Other Cinema screening at Artists' Television Access in San Francisco. Standout favorite, and a very welcome introduction to your work. Hilarious, fantastical dream-logic psychedelia

@sallycruikshank

7 жыл бұрын

Nifty, thanks.

Thanks for your nice comments!

I love these videos,possibly some of the trippiest stuff I've ever seen.

They were a san fran band at the same time I was a san fran cartoonist, but I didn't go out at night much and never saw them.

Brilliant! I love this!

I'm getting yellow submarine vibes from this animation

I saw this cartoon on A&E back in the mid 80's when I was a kid and thought it was kinda creepy. I taped the last minute of it but never knew what it was called or who made it. It's really cool animation and it's great to see it again. Thanks Sally. BTW, the end is missing on this version!

I'm really not sure who did it first-- we were all in San Francisco at that time. But the only time I cooked turducken it was pretty weird!

Love the tunes!

The voices have so much character, not to mention the deliciously coloured world these critters live in! I particularly enjoyed the blue car creature. (:

This is the best video to watch after smoking some joints! everyone loves it :D