A Michael Broad Blog
Here are 14 facts about cartoon cats across the world and across history. The 20th century saw a plethora of cartoon cats being created for animated films which have been highly popular and which still are and can be seen on social media. During the 20th century a host of cartoon cats entertained us. …
Pusheen is a female, gray tabby, cartoon cat. There is no indication that she is a purebred cat. I will take it, therefore, that she is a random-bred cat or moggy, which is apt because she is meant to represent cats in general. She does things that, in general, young people like to do …
Hello Kitty is a female, anthropomorphised (humanised), Japanese Bobtail cat. She is all-white and her full name is Kitty White (‘Kiti Howaito’). In terms of the cat fancy, traditionally the Japanese bobtail is normally seen in a tortoiseshell-and-white coat. This is a coat of three colours (particolor) and not all-white. Although the Japanese Bobtail …
What cat breed is Garfield? Garfield is a ginger, tabby tomcat and he is not a pedigree, purebred cat and therefore is not a member of a cat breed. He is probably based on a tabby cat because of the markings (black lines) drawn on his back which resemble the mackerel tabby pattern and …
The Chester Cheetah cartoon cat was an advertising mascot for Cheetos snacks. Cheetos is a brand of cheese curl made by a company called, Frito-Lay. They are a cheese-flavoured cornmeal snack. Cheetos was developed by Fritos creator Charles Elmer Doolin (1948) with a potato product called “Fritatos”. Chester Cheetah cartoon cat insisted that other …
Fritz the Cat — It ain’t rated “X” for nuthin…”I cannot believe this hasn’t been banned yet aha! Fritz..” Perhaps these comments, that come from YouTube, were written by people who are unaware that the X rated film made by Ralph Bakshi in 1972 called Fritz the Cat was disowned by Robert Crumb the …
The Baggy Pants Cartoon cat is little known. Thirteen episodes were produced by De Patie-Freleng. They were shown on Baggy Pants and Nitwits (NBC 1977). The cartoons only contained sight and sound (no voice) and were a bit like the Pink Panther but less clever. Here is another video. Like the one above it …
Felix the Cat was created by animator Otto Messmer who worked at Pat Sullivan’s animation studio. Pat Sullivan claimed credit for this well-known cartoon cat character. Both Messmer and Sullivan agreed that the character was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s The Cat That Walked by Himself. Sullivan asked Messmer to draw Felix and he did …
