[Text by Amberle Ferrian] This is a colored version of Bob Ito's Disney fanart drawing "Beauty and the Beach", posted in April 1994. Special thanks to lar3ry gensch , who did the electronic painting, and outfitted Beast with leopard-skin Speedos in this version. ;-) Original description follows: "Beauty and the Beach" (batbeach.gif, 457x595x2, 10608 bytes) is the sixteenth in a continuing series of fine Disney fanart drawings by Bob Ito . You may wish to save this description in a separate file for future reference. With apologies to the Beach Boys: Catch the Toons, 'cause they're headin' on out to the beach! This im-age here is tit-led "Beauty and the Beach" (catch a Toon, catch a Toon) With a song a-bout it, than a speech (ooh-waa ooh-waa ooh-waa ooh-waa) You've got Belle there, with her hat and books And baby, that one-piece suit will at-tract men's looks So come and--catch the Toons, 'cause they're headin' on out to the beach! Bob Ito asked about the Beast, "Hey, Am-ber-le (catch a Toon, catch a Toon) On him, what would you like to see?" (ooh-waa ooh-waa ooh-waa ooh-wah) "A surfer boy, Beast should Speedos wear! Re-mem-ber! Those shorts are tight, there should be SOMETHING there!" ;-D And so he--drew the Toons, who are headin' on out to the beach! They'll spend the day and eat their pic-nic lunch and then (catch a Toon, catch a Toon) He's got his 'board--surf's up again! (ooh-waa ooh-waa ooh-waa ooh-wah) So if this sounds like a good download Then netter, just save this post, and u-u-de-code And then you'll--catch the Toons, 'cause they're headin' on out to the beach! --Amberle Ferrian , "Catch a Toon"; sung to the tune of "Catch a Wave", arranged by Brian Wilson, performed by the Beach Boys Bob Ito's fanart drawings are archived at: ftp://ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu/pub/disney/images/ito/ http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dacut/fdc.html Contact the archive maintainer, David Cuthbert for more details, and Bob for comments and queries on the drawings. Please ftp during off-peak hours if possible (4am-11am PST, GMT -0800).