H Hannah and his Great Hot Dog

Yes there are programs out there that let you can make your own animations.

These are my own, I made them. The character "Sparky (HOT DOG)" and his sagas/adventures are copyrighted. I had Sparky copyrighted in 1983. There are a total of 8 books and 45 animations under this copyright.

These particular animations can't be copied or used by anyone but me. I will publish them on the website for your enjoyment.

Thank you for sharing Sparky with us. I thought there would be a copywrite on him. Wow 1983, that makes Sparky 25 years old. Still looks good. Thanks again for sharing him with us,

... that can't be healthy for you!

Yes he is 25 years old.

There is a funny story behind his creation.

I was working for Mountain Bell in Albuquerque. The switch I was working on was controlled out of Denver.

Just for fun I actually brought a hot dog on a string to work and told everyone it was my pet hot dog Sparky.

Well the people in Denver heard about it and wanted to see it. So I started making drawings of my pet hot dog doing different things and faxing them to Denver. The people in Denver were enthusiastic about seeing him I started making up more drawings.

I then started compiling the drawings and making them into children books. To make a long story short I had the character(Sparky) and the books Copyrighted. The books were all hand drawings. I even had a 4 panel comic strip some in color, and some in Pen and Ink drawings.

From the books came the Animations at a later date when animation tools became available. The original animations are all a lot larger, so to be able to show them in this website I had to redraw them to make what I call Thumbnail Animations.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do in creating them.

PS. By the way I do have the original hot dog I took to work on a string. He is a little shriveled up and petrified. But he is stored away and saved.

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... just like Grandpa!

I'm sorry ... that's bad. I couldn't resist!