Conclusion: the latest incarnation of Puss in Boots is a male orange tabby-and-white random bred cat (moggy). The question in the title is wide open to interpretation as there are very many Puss in Boots characters. Old and recent history is littered with them. The original Puss in Boots appears to have been a character …
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. I …
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 such …
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 is …
Tony the tiger was (and still is, I believe) a very well-known and often seen mascot for Frosted Flakes Cereal. Firstly, a bit about the cereal. The Cereal As we might know, it is a product created by the Kellogg Company called ‘Kelloggs Frosties’. It is a standard breakfast cereal made of corn flakes and …
Tony the Tiger – long-lived mascot of Kellogg’s Frosties Read More »
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 …
Bagpuss was a striped tabby moggy. In other words, a mackerel tabby random bred or mixed breed cat. He was not a purebred cat. It is rare for the creators of fictional cats to think of specific cat breeds. Bagpuss was meant to be a marmalade cat (red tabby) but the business that manufactured him …
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 cheese …
Chester Cheetah cartoon cat – “It ain’t easy bein’ cheesy” Read More »
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 creator …
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 is …
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 so …
The immensely talented Friz Freleng (Aug 21, 1905 – Maay 26, 1995) drew Sylvester the Cat. He said that the cat was designed “subtly like a clown [with] a big red nose and a very low crotch… to look like he was wearing baggy pants”. Incidentally, Mel Blanc provided the cat’s voice. Sylvester starred in …
Tom is a moggy i.e. a random-bred cat, which are commonly referred to as ‘domestic shorthairs’ for the simple reason they are domesticated and have short hair but no pedigree (recorded family lineage). He is a bicolour cat because his fur is both grey and white although the white looks off-white or grey on the …
‘Cartoon Cat’ is a modern creation. We don’t know whether he’s masculine or feminine so the character is probably an “it”. I’m gonna say he’s masculine. A conventional approach. As he’s a cartoon character he has to be fake in that sense because he only exists in cartoons, on the Internet. But he is real …
The film The Aristocats was released in 1970, specifically 28 December 1970. Therefore I will presume that it was made during 1970 but there’s no guarantee that that was the case. It may have been made before then and released later but I think is reasonable to presume that it was made in 1970. It …
