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For those of you not in the know, this is Futura from the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon from the 80s drawn by .

I think she did an excellent job on the linework, so I took it a step further. She's good for bringing the classics back. This cartoon has a VERY interesting history, so here's a little backstory on why this show exists at all.

In 1975, Filmation, the studio behind the production of the Fat Albert and He-Man cartoons, had a live action series that came on Saturday mornings called, The Ghost Busters. It was a show about a couple of goofy guys and a gorilla, played by F-Troop cast members Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker who ran a ghost hunting business where they zapped a variety of spooks into the afterlife. This sounds strangely familiar, sure. But the show was short lived and moved on to the hereafter.

Cut to 1983, the trade papers were buzzing about a new project from Dan Aykroyd of SNL and Blues Brothers fame. This was the similarly titled soon-to-be mega franchise, Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters had seen a lot of development over the years, with the original premise being guys in riot gear who hunted ghosts through time and space. A far cry from the three scientists who chase ghosts around Manhattan in an old ambulance. Both projects were influenced in a sense by the Bowery Boys comedy, Spook Busters, which was titled Ghost Busters itself originally at one time. Filmation caught hold of this and sued Columbia Pictures for trademark infringement. A deal was made, the settlement being Columbia having to pay for the license to the name, and Filmation getting 1 percent of the movie's profit.

After that, Filmation volunteered to do production work for the cartoon based on the movie, showing there were no hard feelings. Supposedly, there are drafts that Filmation had done that were pitched to Columbia who had turned them down, deciding to use animation services from DiC, the producers of Inspector Gadget. Since the name Ghostbusters was still white hot at the time, Filmation countered with a show of their own, based on their live action show from '75. The premise was the same, but a little different. This show featured the same gorilla, but the sons the original TV Ghost Busters would be the stars of the show. Fighting against a villain named Prime Evil who had a variety of ghouls at his command. Futura here was a Ghostbuster from the future, who came back in time help the new heroes on different missions often. She was pretty hot for weekday afternoon toon.

Anyway, this turn of events prompted the producers of the show based on the movie to re-title their show, "The Real Ghostbusters", even though that wasn't technically true, but they did have popularity on their side. And history was made.

I want to thank again for the lineart, it was fun to color.

Description
For those of you not in the know, this is Futura from the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon from the 80s drawn by .

I think she did an excellent job on the linework, so I took it a step further. She's good for bringing the classics back. This cartoon has a VERY interesting history, so here's a little backstory on why this show exists at all.

In 1975, Filmation, the studio behind the production of the Fat Albert and He-Man cartoons, had a live action series that came on Saturday mornings called, The Ghost Busters. It was a show about a couple of goofy guys and a gorilla, played by F-Troop cast members Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker who ran a ghost hunting business where they zapped a variety of spooks into the afterlife. This sounds strangely familiar, sure. But the show was short lived and moved on to the hereafter.

Cut to 1983, the trade papers were buzzing about a new project from Dan Aykroyd of SNL and Blues Brothers fame. This was the similarly titled soon-to-be mega franchise, Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters had seen a lot of development over the years, with the original premise being guys in riot gear who hunted ghosts through time and space. A far cry from the three scientists who chase ghosts around Manhattan in an old ambulance. Both projects were influenced in a sense by the Bowery Boys comedy, Spook Busters, which was titled Ghost Busters itself originally at one time. Filmation caught hold of this and sued Columbia Pictures for trademark infringement. A deal was made, the settlement being Columbia having to pay for the license to the name, and Filmation getting 1 percent of the movie's profit.

After that, Filmation volunteered to do production work for the cartoon based on the movie, showing there were no hard feelings. Supposedly, there are drafts that Filmation had done that were pitched to Columbia who had turned them down, deciding to use animation services from DiC, the producers of Inspector Gadget. Since the name Ghostbusters was still white hot at the time, Filmation countered with a show of their own, based on their live action show from '75. The premise was the same, but a little different. This show featured the same gorilla, but the sons the original TV Ghost Busters would be the stars of the show. Fighting against a villain named Prime Evil who had a variety of ghouls at his command. Futura here was a Ghostbuster from the future, who came back in time help the new heroes on different missions often. She was pretty hot for weekday afternoon toon.

Anyway, this turn of events prompted the producers of the show based on the movie to re-title their show, "The Real Ghostbusters", even though that wasn't technically true, but they did have popularity on their side. And history was made.

I want to thank again for the lineart, it was fun to color.