Some Buford Production Stuff

Not that much stuff available on "The Buford Files," but here are some:

This first one is a background scene of old Jeb Crowly's place from the episodes "Swamp Hermit" and Missing Gator. The backgrounds for Buford were way better than the cheesy animation HB was doing at the time. This scene is very atmosphereic, and evokes place setting of the great Okefenokee Swamp very well. I can almost here the churring of the insects and frogs, and cries of night birds and the bellows of bull gators in the encroaching evening.

This next one is from the episode "The Magic Whammy" which featured the villainous magician The Grat Zambini. A great shot of Fenokee Theatre.

And, finally, an actual production cel of Cindy Mae Boggs, the crafty redheaded leader of the Buford gang! I just uncovered this on ebay, and am bidding on it as I type.

Buford Collectibles

Every once in a great while, some genuine items related to the obscure series The Buford Files actually come to light. As noted previously, sometimes real BF merchandies mostly in

other countries, is discovered. I recently found out that during the late seventies, early eighties, the time when most of HB's toon series weren't doing that well here in the US, the foreign market was rife for comic book readers, and a lot of HB comics, some of them featuring characters and series created during this period, featured in the foreign markets.

Here is an example of some pics I found form a Mexican newspaper on ebay. The actual item, BTW, escaped me--there must be more collectors of this sort of stuff now than there were a few years ago:

 

And yes, that's actually the Raccoon featured in one of the pics on the second page.

Another thing that came to light fairly recently was this production rough for the opening sequence, complete with notes:
 
 







Unfortunately, I couldn't find the rest of the sequence. Over a year ago, I also ran across a partial script for the first episode, with a line drawing of Deputy Goofer drawn in, but I could not locate that. But one never knows what the future may hold...