Max Fleischer’s “Pudgy The Watchman” (1938)
Today, we’re going to look into a post-code Betty Boop with her little pal, Pudgy! Many of the Fleischer cartoons featuring Betty Boop, including the early Talkartoons before her official…
Today, we’re going to look into a post-code Betty Boop with her little pal, Pudgy! Many of the Fleischer cartoons featuring Betty Boop, including the early Talkartoons before her official…
Today, we’re going to the East Coast, with an early sound Terrytoon! Before he got into animation, producer Paul Terry quit high school to follow his older brother John’s footsteps…
By A Waterfall. When Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players-Lasky, decided to stop producing the Paramount Screen Magazine (which featured the Felix the Cat silent animated cartoons) in 1920 as…
Animated Bone. In 1991, cartoonist and animator Jeff Smith released his independent comic book, “Bone”, which immediately received critical acclaim and complimentary comparisons to the works of Walt Kelly and…
Where In The World of George Pal Is Woody Woodpecker? Animation producer Walter Lantz and filmmaker George Pal were very good friends. As the terrific animation historian Joe Adamson wrote…
Here’s a rather meaty post for you this round. We’re firmly in the Miami era of the Fleischer Studio, the period when the short cartoons arguably lost their sheen. But…
Readers of this site are familiar with Paramount’s (and later Harvey Comics) Little Audrey – a character created to replace Little Lulu in a series of animated theatrical cartoons beginning…
Interestingly, Paramount Sales News has been getting a bit behind on the latest Fleischer cartoons by not just months but years. Lost and Foundry was arguably one of the bigger…
Upon closer inspection, these Paramount Sales News publicity drawings are not exactly the same art as the images prepared for the one-sheet posters for the Fleischer cartoons themselves. While the…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, 20th Century-Fox released a film about a battle in outer space featuring a boy, some comical robots and ruthless alien…