Many moons ago, I wrote the Tom & Jerry syndicated newspaper strip for Editors Syndicate. During that interlude, the T&J artist and I pitched to take over the Yogi Bear strip. We were unsuccessful, but my scripts, such as they are, survive.… Read the rest
Tom And Jerry
…Well, I wrote a newspaper comic strip for the Editors Press Service, the syndicate that distributed Tom & Jerry, which, as I mentioned a while back in my review of a DVD of Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry cartoons I wrote for a bit.… Read the rest
A review I wrote that appeared last weekend on ComicMix.com:
I have to laugh when I watch old Tom and Jerry cartoons. First, of course, because they’re funny. The original series of 114 theatrical cartoons by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Hollywood cartoon studio were produced between 1940 and 1957, seven of them winning the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons)…a tie for most awards, one should note for the animation snobs out there, with Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies animated series.… Read the rest
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