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unusual facts about cartoons


Christopher Noxon

His first book was Rejuvenile.


A Tale of Two Kitties

(This line was patterned after a catchphrase from a Red Skelton character, and would be used in other Warner cartoons, such as Easter Yeggs.)

Amigo and Friends

The American animation company did cartoons featuring the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Abbott and Costello.

Australasian Post

One of its best features is its focus on Australiana, with pages of jokes and cartoons, including the Ettamogah Pub series by cartoonist Ken Maynard.

Band Kids

It was thanks to it that during this time there arose a great wave of anime on television as a Brazilian view of anime Dragon Ball Z, Bucky, El-Hazard, Tenchi Muyo and Saint Seiya some of them were not broadcast until then, besides being from it that the anime came to be called by that name, since before they were called just "cartoons" in Brazil.

Bosco Chocolate Syrup

Bosco Chocolate Syrup, at that time called Bosco Milk Amplifier, was heavily advertised on children's shows during the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as The Popeye Club, a local Atlanta, Ga. program featuring Popeye cartoons, as well as live action sequences.

Cartoons Against Corruption

Many writers, artists, and activists gathered at Rajghat, New Delhi to protest against the undemocratic ban on the Cartoons Against Corruption.

CCTV-14

It airs cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants and other cartoon programs broadcast as well as children's game shows and other children's programmes in this channel.It separated from CCTV-7 since 2003.Before 2003,CCTV children's programmes were available on CCTV-7.After CCTV-14 is launched,all children's programmes on CCTV-7 are moved to CCTV-14.CCTV-7 don't broadcast children's programmes any longer.

CJFB-TV

Hosted by long time CJFB on-air personality Gordon Foth, the program was broadcast at noon on weekdays and featured cartoons such as "Popeye" which were elderly even then.

Claude Du Bosc

In 1712, he came to England with Claude Dupuis to assist Nicholas Dorigny in engraving the cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court, where he resided for some time, until the engravings were nearly completed.

Crescent Porter Hale

Serials and westerns were popular as well as cartoons like Krazy Kat and Mickey Mouse.

Daryl Cagle

Cagle publishes iPhone, Android and iPad apps, including one with cartoons about Tiger Woods which made news when it was rejected by Apple Inc., because of Apple's policy of not allowing apps that ridicule public figures.

Dennis Berry

Although he died in 1994, his work continues to be used worldwide, frequently as incidental music in television, most recently in BBC's Little Britain and Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoons Rocko's Modern Life and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Destination Inner Space

Road is famous for his work in Hanna-Barbera cartoons, where he voiced numerous characters including government agent/bodyguard Roger "Race" Bannon on Jonny Quest.

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.

E. W. Kemble

His lively cartoons, some of the magazine industry's most mature work, attracted the attention of Mark Twain, who employed Kemble to illustrate Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Ed Krebs

Krebs also plays guitar, bass and organ in several reggae bands, and is the webmaster of HERB (Had Enough Religious Bullshit), a site for anti-Theocracy and anti-religious humor with particular emphasis on cartoons.

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).

George E. Stratemeyer

One of Stratemeyer's favorite cartoons showed him sitting at his desk surrounded by pictures of his eight bosses (Stillwell, Mountbatten, Gen. George C. Marshall, Chiang, Arnold, Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Major General Daniel I. Sultan, and FDR), all of whom could give him orders in one or another of his capacities.

Hasenpfeffer

Hasenpfeffer gained in popularity due to references in the Looney Tunes cartoons of Bugs Bunny, who was frequently threatened with being turned to hasenpfeffer, such as in the 1962 short, Shishkabugs.

Hey, Shipwreck

Patrick Hrabe says former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Terry D. Scott wrote him and said he was "still laughing" after viewing the cartoons.

I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool

"I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool" was the first of Columbia's comics to conspicuously show the influence of the animated cartoons of Fleischer Studios, particularly the Out of the Inkwell series with Koko the Clown and "dark" cartoons such as Bimbo's Initiation.

International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

On February 14, Italy's Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move likely to embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government.

Jack Mendelsohn

Dropping out of high school, Mendelsohn joined the Navy and after World War II, he contributed gag cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.

James Kemsley

The daily afternoon program offered a mix of US-based cartoons (such as Wacky Races, Scooby Doo and The Archies), with viewer competitions.

Jerome Hill

He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.

John Malloy

Malloy was born and raised in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, and began drawing cartoons and rock stars at age 6.

Mam Cymru

National personification of Wales, also called Dame Wales used in cartoons, most notably by Joseph Morewood Staniforth.

Mana Neyestani

During 1998-2000, he drew a large number of cartoons for various reformist newspapers, such as Asr-e Azadegan, Sobhe Emrooz, Mosharekat, Azad, Neshat (as a freelancer), and Aftab-e Emrooz (as a staff cartoonist).

Modern Drunkard Magazine

The theme of the magazine − a celebration of alcohol and the seemingly bohemian lifestyles of functional alcoholics − runs counter to the message of moderation commonly found in mainstream America: regular features include "Alcocomics − Cartoons for the sober challenged," "Post Cards from Skid Row" (featuring poetry written by and/or for the inebriated), "Wino Wisdom," and "You Know You're a Drunkard When..."

Moonwalk One

In 1970 even the simplest computer animation was so expensive and time consuming to do that it was far cheaper to do cell animation, where each image was drawn on a clear acetate just like Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Oscar Handlin

He was possessed of a sardonic wit honed by his love of the novels of James Branch Cabell, the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan and the cartoons of Al Capp who was a family friend.

Plane Crazy

In Porco Rosso, in a theater in Milan, Porco watches a movie which has references to vintage cartoons.

Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt

Jason Marsden, who plays the young Burt Ward/Robin, has done a few voice roles in recent DC/Warner Bros Cartoons such as Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, and Young Justice.

Sam Cobean

A close friend and co-worker with cartoonist Charles Addams (The Addams Family), Sam Cobean has influenced cartoons and cartoonists for several generations.

Scrap Happy Daffy

Daffy is ready to call it quits (saying "What I'd give for a can of spinach now", a direct reference to Popeye whose theatrical cartoons are now owned by WB), but is encouraged by the ghosts of his 'ancestors' — ducks who landed on Plymouth Rock, who encamped at Valley Forge with George Washington, who explored with Daniel Boone, who sailed with John Paul Jones, and who stood in for Abraham Lincoln.

Sorry Safari

Sorry Safari, released in October 1962, is the 11th in a series of thirteen Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Gene Deitch.

Space Quest IV

The Astro Chicken theme music is a variation on the Chicken Reel, a traditional folk song best known for its use in animated cartoons.

Tabaluga

This first studio album was the step to success: within the next years some Helme Heine books, four sequel concept studio albums, two resounding tours, a stage musical, Tabaluga und Lilli (Tabaluga and Lilli), based on the third concept album and many TV Cartoons which have been broadcasting in over 100 countries round the world followed and a children's game show.

The Beatles Book

In addition, Beatles roadies Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans wrote many of the articles, and artist Bob Gibson created numerous cartoons and caricatures of the fab four on a regular basis.

The Family from One End Street

Jo Ruggles Jr., a Mickey Mouse fan, spends his fourpence allowance at the local Majestic Theater to see cartoons.

The Hep Cat

At the end of the cartoon the cat says: "Well, I can dream, can't I?" Both quotes were used often in Looney Tunes cartoons of this era (like for instance Plane Daffy, Red Hot Riding Hood,...) and are both catch phrases by Jerry Colonna.

The Unmentionables

The cartoon later appeared (combined with two other Rocky and Mugsy cartoons) in The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie in 1981.

Tom Gauld

He has produced a number of cartoons for The Guardian newspaper, and now contributes to its Saturday Review section.

Tom Terrific

Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific ran in a series of five-minute cartoons created specifically for the Captain Kangaroo show from 1957-1959, and was rerun on Kangaroo for years thereafter.

Toonattik

The strand aired on weekend mornings from 7.25am until ITV Breakfast's closedown at 9.25am, featuring a selection of both British and imported cartoons, mainly from brands such as Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

Warner Communications

Warner's Big W logo was used as a character in Tiny Toon Adventures, along with the classic WB shield from the cartoons, as residents along with Gogo and the other Wackyland residents.

World War II political cartoons

In contrast to official government-sponsored propaganda, German-occupied Europe also produced resistance cartoons mocking the new order.

Yahoo! Messenger

In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.


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