Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog

The Road Runner is a natural choice to run with today but I’m going to wait to draw him later in the alphabet with Wile. Instead, I’m going with a character I had forgotten about, Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog.

At first glance you’d swear Ralph Wolf is Wile E. Coyote but there are minor differences in their appearances which I never picked up on until I read Wiki’s write up which they say Ralph has a red nose whereas Wile’s is black; white eyes instead of yellow; and occasionally has a fang sticking out of his mouth.  My black and white sketch can’t easily distinguish these feature changes but when I colorize it later on then it’ll come to life.  Here’s Ralph and Sam clocking in for work.

 

Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog appeared in Don’t Give Up The Sheep (1953 B&W film).  The creator has Ralph and Sam are blue collar workers going doing their jobs like they do every other day.  The normalcy of the routine resonates with us humans while giving us loads of giggles to see how well each does his job.  One successful and the other not so much.  I remember the 1953 feature as a kid but it was colorized by the time it aired on Saturday morning cartoons.

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The pair appeared in five other shorts  Sheep Ahoy (1954 B&W), Double or Mutton (1955), Steal Wool (1957 B&W), Ready Woolen and Able (1960 B&W), A Sheep in the Deep (1962), and Woolen Under Where (1963).

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