My name is Penny M (she/her), founder and webdev of the Pendog Creative Library. Ever since I was young I have always had a close connection with cartoons, puppets, anything creative themed. I come from an artistic family so it was only natural that my relationship with these mediums would be so intense. My deepest wish as an artist is for people to be more aware of the characters that inspired me growing up and for the public to know the history behind these icons. For this reason I set out to create a digital archive dedicated to the preservation and documentation of creative history. 

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Meet the Team

  • Photograph of a woman seen only from her neck up, with one shoulder raised in front of her. She is wearing a striped sweater. She is pale skinned with medium long straight purple dyed hair. She is also wearing eyeshadow, a nosering, and dark lipstick

    RedWrithingGloves

    She/Her

    RG is a digital artist and illustrator with over seven years of experience. A dedicated cartoonist RG is responsible for a great deal of the art assets and decorations found within this site. RG is an avid fan of Maisy the Mutt and as such they hope to help the general public gain a better appreciation of the characters roots.

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    Vincent T

    He/Him

    Vincent T is a professional writer with a background in cataloging and inventory. His skills are invaluable to the work we do here at the PCL and he is responsible for conducting interviews and research regarding the artifacts and cartoons hosted on our site. 

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    Belliup

    He/They

    Belliup is an illustrator with nine years of experience, having worked together during our time at art school I was thrilled to work with him on the imaginarium page. Belliup is currently working on an illustrated storybook.

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    Ick@ck

    He/Him

    Ick@ck was an associate responsible for many of the recovered screenshots and animations found on this site. Through collaboration with his group the FoundFinders, we have been able to recover many cartoons and illustrations once thought completely lost.

  • Photograph of a woman holding four stuffed animals and next to two puppets, Seamore to her right is a big nosed colorful humanoid puppet wearing a button up sweater and Strawbetty to her left is a button nosed colorful humanoid puppet wearing a dress

    Emma Weckle

    She/Her

    Emma is a puppet historian, maker, and good friend of the website! Through her work we have been able to recover puppet mascots Seamore and Strawbetty as well as regularly get in touch with prominent puppet makers to ask questions. Her work has been invaluable to the website and she’s a very good friend of mine!

Q & A

Q: Are you affiliated with any of the franchises/brands you cover?

A: No we are not! This whole archive is purely a passion project dedicated to preserving the histories of creative ventures and allowing that information to be freely accessible. We are in no way affiliated with any of the companies, studios, IPs, or artists documented on this site.

Q: How do you find the items you document?

A: It's quite a process. For some characters such as Maisy The Mutt, it's not hard at all to find merchandise/media to document because of her popularity and worldwide success. But for the more obscure ventures we document here, it takes lots of time and patience to find things. Our team spends hours upon hours looking through old catalogues, books, newspapers, tapes, web postings and more searching for anything relating to the characters and brands we cover here. Second hand shops, reselling websites, museums, libraries are all places to visit frequently in case you get lucky. We sometimes contact people directly involved with the studios/companies, or private collectors to see if they'd be willing to talk with us about what they know. We've also had people reach out to us on their own, which is very exciting! It's mostly a game of keeping your eyes peeled for any glimpses of Maisies magic hat, Telectrica's signature red and Bartlebee's honeycomb logo.

Q: How long has this site been around?

A: This website started out as a personal portfolio/blog on which I documented my artwork and talked about things going on in my life! When the time arrived to make the PCL I decided I:

1- didn’t really want those old blogs and artwork around anymore due to personal reasons I’m not comfortable disclosing. I will post my old art from time to time on the updates page!

2- didn’t want to pay extra money for a new website.

So with reason one combined with reason two I scrapped pretty much everything from the site and overhauled it!

Q: I have something that would fit into your archive, how can I share it with you?

A: If you are in possession of an item relating to anything documented in the Pendog library - whether it be an advertisement, illustration, toy, tape, etc - we would be more than happy to add it to our collection! Please contact me (Penny M) with any information pertaining to the item in question. Information such as; What is it? How/where did you acquire it? What significance does this item hold for you? Please include pictures as well, for authenticity. Thank you!

Hank

Is here with friends but somewhere in the commotion they got separated. He doesn’t remember how he ended up dancing with this person but the music makes it feel alright and he’s never felt freer in his entire life. How they ended up at the party feels unimportant too, everyone just seemed to gravitate here, knowing that tonight this gaudy tacky house would be a turning point of youth and their cheers would shake the world. Tomorrow he plans to sleep in and skip classes as are most everyone here. 


But until then he sways and weaves through everyone and everything, his body a current in the wave flowing through the house like electricity. There’s a tension in the air he’s not familiar with but he can only assume that it’s due to the big showing he’s been told has been planned for tonight. Something about history, cartoon history, and how what was being shown here was going to rock the art community to the core. He isn’t sure what all that means. He just wants to enjoy his time dancing and talking and living the absolute most of life. His world was too busy for things like history and art, he had meetings to schedule and people to sit down with. Tonight was just a brief reprieve.


Had the walls always been so blindingly white? As he steadies himself something miraculous 

Irene

Is considering telling her new friend group that her name is really Irene and not Kennedy. Tonight seemed like the right time to make the big jump when everyone was distracted and in a joyous mood. It had sounded so easy in her head but now seems completely unreasonable and illogical, and dangerous. So she miserably sits to the side of the party, watching everyone sway and churn like a great wave of black witch hats and crappy silk leggings. She was hoping that during the big showing she might slip out or grab a friend or two to sneak out without causing a commotion, she hadn’t wanted to come to the party but her friends had insisted because she was the “art guy” of the crew. And yes the prospect of seeing something lost to history and then triumphantly unearthed was exciting to her. She looked forward to how much could be learnt from one little tape but she also had heard whispers of how it had been obtained and if they were true at all the thought filled her with bile.


Doing her best to not look like much of anything her head jolts up when the music