A Michael Broad Blog
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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. …
