I need everyone to know about Le Mutt and his friends!!
This is the initial photo I saw on Pinterest. I shared it with a friend I was on the phone with at the time to co-witness the beautiful curation of images I was receiving. She urged me to find out more about him and gang!!!! It is So Good!!
Les Mutts is a series of characters (and toys of course) designed by Francesca Hoerlein in the 1980’s. Other characters I’ve come across for for sale at the moment are Le Patches and Fifi La Femme. And there are clothes sets! And Books! And shortfilms!
Yes! Yes! There are short films!
There is a whole cast of Les Mutts puppets and they have the cutest little YouTube channel!
www.lesmutts.com
My two favorites are TEAMWORK, and Better Living Through Duckness, Chapter One.
TEAMWORK is about Mutt and Wolfie working together to prepare a meal, it’s such a peaceful little short the combination of the music and the visuals is SUCH a treat. The Better Living Through Duckness series is charming and funny and I’m so sad there’s so few of them!
There’s also a few more shorts on Alex Griffin’s YouTube, who is the voice and actor behind Le Mutt himself. Alex Griffin is also the only remaining web presence of Les Mutts as his website is how I initially found out about the short films and anything that wasn’t a for-sale listing. There’s evidence that Les Mutts used to have their own website with more activities. One video eludes to there being downloadable paper crafts at some point but the website link doesn’t work anymore. So I would like to get some more eyes on what is left of a clearly a beloved little guy and the adventures he goes on :•)