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1939 in animation

September 9: Life Begins for Andy Panda, produced by Walter Lantz and released by Universal Pictures, marking the film debut of the cartoon character Andy Panda

A Witch's Tangled Hare

The cartoon makes many references to various plays by William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and As You Like It).

Animated cartoon

Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism.

Animated series

Cartoon series are sometimes grouped together according to network programming demands.

Budgie

Budgie the Little Helicopter, a children's cartoon series by Sarah, Duchess of York

Captain Pugwash

The rights to Captain Pugwash were purchased by HIT Entertainment, who since 1997 have issued a number of digital and part computer-animated cartoon films based on the Pugwash character, set on the island of "Montebuffo", "somewhere in the Spanish Main".

Cartoon Orbit

To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Cartoon Orbit instead had a list of pre-written words and phrases that players could send in a chat box.

Cocoa Krispies

Simmo also starred in an advert for the company in 1986 alongside a female companion who only appeared once named "Heapo", a cartoon Hippopotamus.

Coyotes in popular culture

The cartoon coyote Wilber is the official mascot for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free raster graphics editor.

Don Diamond

He performed extensive voice-over work in commercials and cartoons, most notably as the voice of Toro in the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises cartoon series Tijuana Toads.

Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair

Animator and director Don Bluth, who produced the cartoon animation for the arcade original, also produced two new animated sequences for the opening and ending of the game.

Ear pick

Figurines: A plastic or wooden figure, such as a small Daruma or cartoon characters are placed at the opposite end of the tip.

Eye Opener

# 23 March 1965: The Lonely Machine (Paddy Sampson producer; Jules Feiffer story; Sampson and Norm Symonds adaptation), based on the Feiffer cartoon, starring Rich Little

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Goldimouse and the Three Cats

This cartoon was included the 1982 feature film Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.

Harry Bliss

The May 12, 2008 edition of The New Yorker magazine published in its weekly caption-writing contest a cartoon by that closely resembled Jack Kirby's cover of Tales to Astonish #34 (Aug. 1962).

Herky the Hawk

Native Iowa City artist Charles Reed based his drawing of Herky on two sources: former Hawkeye wrestler Barry Davis and cartoon character Mighty Mouse.

Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby

The movie has been reaired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang usually as part of Mother's Day special programming.

Huckleberry Hound

He also appeared in various commercials and bumpers featured on Cartoon Network, voiced by Jeff Bergman.

International Action

On July 1, 2005, the group dressed as cartoon characters 'The Incredibles' and joined the territory-wide pro-democracy demonstration.

Janine Melnitz

In the cartoon series Real Ghostbusters, she was originally voiced by Laura Summer and later by Kath Soucie.

Jim Toomey

His cartoon strip, Sherman's Lagoon, is distributed by King Features Syndicate, and appears in over 250 newspapers in North America and in over 30 foreign countries.

Jiří Jirmal

He contributed the musical background for Gene Deitch's 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon Tall in the Trap, in which he was credited as George Jirmal.

Join, or Die

The cartoon is on a t-shirt worn by Justin Walker (Dave Annable) in episode 4 of season 4 ("From France with Love," 2009) of Brothers & Sisters.

Jon Gisle

Gisle is also famous for being a cartoon expert, and in 1973 he published the Donald Duck analysis Donaldismen.

Ki-nam

Nam Gi-nam (born 1942), South Korean film and cartoon director

Leo Watson

Watson also provided the voice for Prince Chawmin' in the infamous Censored Eleven cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (directed by Bob Clampett, 1943).

Leonard Woodcock

A Doonsbury cartoon at the time read, "If he can take on the Big Three, he can handle the Gang of Four".

Little Orphan Airedale

The cartoon's story (which is essentially a re-working of Bob Clampett's 1941 short Porky's Pooch) is about a dog named Rags McMutt, who has just escaped from the dog pound and accidentally meets Charlie, an old friend of his in a car he used as a hiding place.

Mickey's Choo-Choo

The cartoon ends with an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding a handcar (made from the chassis and a plank of wood from the freight car which came uncoupled accidentally when Mickey tried to push the train up the hill when it got stuck earlier in the film) into the sunset, which inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation.

Monchhichi

The American cartoon series Monchhichis was produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1983 and aired on ABC in an effort to promote the doll line.

Palmer Cox

Richard F. Outcault referenced Cox and The Brownies in a February 9, 1895 cartoon of Hogan's Alley.

Panda3D

Over time, Panda3D was used for additional VR rides at Disney theme parks, and was eventually used in the creation of Toontown Online, an online game set in a cartoon world, and later for the second MMORPG, Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

Pee Wee Hunt

He was satirized as Pee Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland Band in Tex Avery's animated MGM cartoon Dixieland Droopy (1954).

Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".

Pigs in a Polka

Short clips from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode Mars University; in the Everybody Hates Chris episode "Everybody Hates Gretzky"; and in the movie Training Day.

Quimby the Mouse

The strip follows that of a seemingly depressed cartoon mouse, modeled after Felix The Cat and Mickey Mouse.

Rabbit of Seville

The cartoon, in a plotline reminiscent of Stage Door Cartoon, features Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd into the stage door of the Hollywood Bowl, whereupon Bugs tricks Elmer into going onstage, and participating in a break-neck operatic production of their chase punctuated with gags and accompanied by musical arrangements by Carl Stalling, focusing on Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville.

Rosie and Jim

John Cunliffe, a writer, presented the original series whose episodes featured cartoon segments from 1990-92, he was then replaced by Pat Hutchins, an illustrater from 1994-96 and the final series from 1997-2000 were with Neil Brewer, a musician.

Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil

"Das Kleine Krokodil", also known under the title "Schnappi", is the debut single by animated cartoon crocodile, Schnappi, from his first album Schnappi und Seine Freunde.

Sigurd Lybeck

He is particularly remembered as the author of the cartoon Jens von Bustenskjold in Arbeidermagasinet (drawn by Anders Bjørgaard).

Space Ace

A short-lived cartoon series based on Space Ace was produced in 1984 as part of the Saturday Supercade cartoon block (which was composed of cartoon shorts based on current video games) with Space Ace voiced by Jim Piper, Dexter voiced by Sparky Marcus, Kimberly voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and Commander Borf voiced by Arthur Burghardt.

Tenko

Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic, an animated cartoon created by Saban Entertainment in 1995

The Cat's Me-Ouch!

The title, The Cat's Me-Ouch! is a parody of the title of Tex Avery cartoon Cat's Meow, released on January 25, 1957, remake of Ventriloquist Cat (1950).

The Dixie Fryer

The cartoon is also the second to feature the buzzards (who are referred to as Chicken Hawks in this short), "Pappy" and "Elvis," the first being the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Backwoods Bunny," released a year earlier.

The Duck Factory

Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth.

Uwe Kreisel

In 2006, he was a winner of Nintendo of America's "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon" art contest with a tongue-in-cheek cartoon on Franz Kafka's 1915 The Metamorphosis.

VBirds

VBirds were a British virtual/cartoon girl band created by a team of designers, producers and musicians (one of whom was the drummer of the band UB40, James Brown) led by Richard Kilgarriff, The General Manager of Cartoon Network UK in 2002 and aired as 6×1 minute episodes between long form programming.

Wallace Carlson

Some time after the newspaper folded, Carlson created his first animated cartoon, Joe Boko Breaking Into the Big League (1914) completely on his own, the same year as Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur.

Ward Sutton

He also illustrates and writes a cartoon for The Onion under the pseudonym of 'Kelly', depicting the far-fetched Republican and Fundamentalist Christian one-panels of a middle-aged cartoonist.


see also

George and Junior

The characters were brought back to life by Pat Ventura in two 1995 cartoons on the Hanna-Barbera animation anthology franchise What-A-Cartoon! on Cartoon Network' George and Junior: Look Out Below and George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular (both cartoons were produced respectively by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Cartoon Network Studios).

Hard Luck Duck

Although he was a producer on many Hanna-Barbera titles until his death in 2001, Hard Luck Duck is notable for being, with fellow What a Cartoon! short Wind-Up Wolf, the last cartoons written and directed by William Hanna, whose career began in the Golden Age of American animation at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) with the short To Spring! (1936) and his later Tom and Jerry series.