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unusual facts about Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown


Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown

Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown is an animated children's series created by Yoram Gross of Blinky Bill fame.


Bill Yates

He served as an aviator in the United States Navy during WWII, training fighter pilots in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he married Jessie Jean ("Skippy") Hardy.

David Parsons

David "Skippy" Parsons (born 1959), racing driver from Tasmania, Australia

Funnies on Parade

These included such popular strips as cartoonist Al Smith's Mutt and Jeff, Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka, and Percy Crosby's Skippy.

Green Head, Western Australia

Green Head has numerous vantage points for beach fishing, where catches include whiting, herring, tailor, skippy, and cobbler.

Mākaha Sons

After the deaths of the Kamakawiwoʻole brothers, Skippy and internationally known Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, the remaining members dropped the "of Niihau" and now are known as the Makaha Sons, a trio of singers consisting of Louis "Moon" Kauakahi on 6-string guitar, John Koko (now deceased, 6/25/12, age 51) on upright acoustic bass and Jerome Koko on 12-string guitar.

Michelle Meyrink

In 1984 she guest-starred on the television show Family Ties as Mallory's friend (and Skippy's latest infatuation).

Supersnipe

Supersnipe was the imagined alter ego of Koppy McFad, "the boy with the most comic books in the world." He was created by writer-artist George Marcoux, who had previously assisted Percy Crosby on the comic strip Skippy.


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