New York Animation: Felix the Cash Cow
This is how Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer came to meet – and dozens of other details in the legacy of Felix The Cat.
This is how Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer came to meet – and dozens of other details in the legacy of Felix The Cat.
John Canemaker on researching Felix The Cat’s Pat Sullivan, “I looked up the court records, and sure enough, Sullivan financed a cat house and was a sex maniac.”
For this week’s cartoon, I pulled “Felix Dines and Pines”, an especially weird entry in the great silent Felix the Cat series that qualifies quite nicely as a ‘spooky’ cartoon.
Warning: Watching Felix the Cat may not be for everyone. Side effects include laughing so much that your sides might ache and your heart may go pitter-pat. Ask your doctor…