Beatnik type Character?

Usually, the first thing I ask is what time frame we're looking at, but this time the word "beatnik" pretty much nails it. I met a guy in 1972 who I swear was the last beatnik, and they'd been in decline for years. You're talking about guys like in that illustration with my Kookie article, right? (And if the UBB codes aren't working so well that's an actual link, which sometimes happens, I'm sure you can find it.) The ones described in the one on Brother Power, the Geek? Not hippies, but old-fashioned beatniks?

Even so, I can't help because from the description you could be taking about anybody. The Maniaks was a short-lived beatnik band at DC Comics. I think I recall a beatnik supporting character in [url="[link:;www.toonopedia.com]]Swing with Scooter.[/url] Or was it a Satmorn cartoon?

There were beatniks all over the place. Could you possibly e-mail a picture? The Toonopedia mailbox isn't great with attachments, but I could give you my regular business address.

Quack, Don

If this band was the secret indentities for a super hero group, then it might just be a Saturday morning cartoon which I believe was called the Impossibles. As I recall, this band had three members all with hair seemed to fall around their eyes, and, at least one had a fake British accent.

I could be wrong, but I think the word "beatnik" is more specific than just following the then-current fashion of long hair on men. For one thing, they were more unkempt than just letting their hair fall down over their eyes. They tended to have scraggly, uncombed beards.

I described them in the Kookie article as hanging around coffee shops drinking amazingly strong espresso and reciting amazingly meaningless poetry. Also, they tended to have pessimistic attitudes (hence "beat") that contributed to their lack of grooming.

But like I say, I could be wrong. I'm never sure how someone else uses words like that.

(Besides, I don't recall any of those guys wearing a stocking cap.)

Quack, Don

I'm guessing Chuck is somewhat younger than you or me beatnik, mods, and hippies are just something from the past     I think he said the hair looked  like a stocking cap [ I find that term hard to write, in Canada it's a Toque]  the Impossibles weren't beatniks that's for sure

Don;

JM doesn't say they wore stocking caps pulled over their face like Fat Albert's Dumb Donald, but rather that they wore their HAIR over thier faces in that manner.
Yes, beatniks can be specifically like the Kookie character you mentioned, or, Maynerd J. Krebs, of Dobie Gillis fame, but also might generally be said to include Beatles type characters (in a broad sense.)

I really appreciate people trying to help me out.  Sorry I didn't think about the time frame until I was reading other posts of people looking for characters after I had already written mine.
  This Characters was from the late 60's I would have scene it in the early 70's though.   I am sorry that  I couldn't think of more information but yes I was thinking of beatniks not hippies. 
  While writing this I did look at the impossibles by googling(Chucks suggestion and bing) and found something close enough to what I was looking for not sure if this is a later version of what I was thinking about but the character is quite a bit of the same look.  
 It is The Impossibles and the character is multi-man I really just googled cartoon characters and kept looking and looking.
  Now just to get a good shot of this character and put it on a shirt.
  Thanks again so much for any help given by one and all.
  

Enjoy a episode if you have the time. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1- Go  The Impossibles-Return of the Perilous Paper Man.
  Multimans intro of the show says "Makes like a croud no crooks allowed"  this is good stuff.

I'm glad it helped. But it's 'way easy to mistake hippies for beatniks. I even did it myself -- the guys in Brother Power were hippies, not beats.

Quack, Don

How to put a label to someone, or, something is difficult (and, a lot of times wrong.) It's all a matter of semantics, and, a point of view.

I'm glad that my thought was able to help JM. I'm not sure why I thought of that one season shot 'toon, when I read his question, but obviously it rang a bell in he deep recesses of my 'toon memory.

Tent, I AM a little younger than Don, (and, presumably you.)  but seemingly about the same age as (or, a little older than,) JM.
I'm a child of the early 50's, so when TV animation was going into what ever label you want to give it, during my elementary school to early teens, I was a viewer.

>groan< [b]Everybody's[b] younger than me.

Quack, Don