Famous Cartoons and Cartoonists
David Remnick (American journalist, writer and magazine editor) has correctly pointed out that “98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first – and the other 2% are lying.” Reading something funny, something that tingles our funny bone early in the morning, is better than reading about murders and kidnappings and thefts etc. Let us meet those people who are responsible for making us laugh every single day. Let us meet some of these famous cartoonists in the famous cartoonist list given below.
Walter Elias Disney or Walt Disney
No list of famous cartoonists names can be complete without this one particular name, ‘Walt Disney’. The magic that he created in the 40′s has still not lost its uniqueness. He was an American film producer, a voice actor, an animator, an entertainer and a director. He, along with his brother, Roy O. Disney, founded the Walt Disney Production and created the famous Mickey Mouse character, with the help of his team. The first success of this famous cartoonist was not Mickey, but Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. But he had to let go of it due to some problems with the contracts. Mickey, as we all know, is a timeless and one of the most famous characters.
William Denby “Bill” Hanna
Tom and Jerry, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Scooby Doo, The Smurfs, Yogi Bear, The Huckelberry Hound Show are some of the famous cartoons created by William Denby “Bill” Hanna. In the year 1937, while he was working with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, he met Joseph Barbera and these two men produced the evergreen animated cartoon (and my all time favorite) Tom and Jerry. The famous Hanna-Barbera TV animation studio was founded by them in the year 1957 and it was from this house that both of them produced cartoons like The Flinstones, The Jetsons etc. Their cartoons have won them 7 Academy Awards and 8 Emmy Awards.
Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones
“Ehhhhh…What’s up Doc?” Don’t you just love this famous quote of Bugs Bunny? This fictional character was created by none other than Chuck Jones, the director of famous animated movies like “The Looney Tunes” and “Merrie Melodies”. Some of the other famous cartoon characters created by this famous cartoonist are Daffy Duck, Road Runner, Sylvester, Wile E to name a few. He had also produced some new series of Tom and Jerry. Later, he started his own studio called Chuck Jones Productions.
Daniel S. DeCarlo
Daniel Decarlo, was the creator of the famous teenage boy from Riverdale, Archie Andrews and his friends Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie and others. He also created Sabrina, the teenage witch, Josie and the Pussycats and the real hot girl, Cheryl Blossom. All these characters were created in the year 1950 but this comic book is read even today.
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