Rodeo Dough (Krazy Kat) 1931 Columbia Cartoon

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Krazy
• Kat
• 1931
• Rodeo
• Dough
• Columbia
• Cartoon

[FilmTraum]

Fantastic animation!

[benjaminBarr]

whoever drew this was talented as hell, but they needed to be working for walt. Disney was the one with the vision for what cartoons could do, and to work for him in those days was the best experience an animation artist could ever get. I hear he could be difficult to work for, but it was worth it in this case, the guy was a genius

[TiCar85]

I must admit Ignatz and Offisa Pup are indeed essential to Krazy's world. For some reason, those two weren't appreciated enough to warrant inclusion to these cartoons.

The Krazy Kat strip could have been cancelled long before 1944. It just so happens that a colleague of Herriman liked the strip a lot, and therefore they continue to give it a run nonetheless. I guessed how it continued was simply a personal matter from that colleague.

[TiCar85]

Actually, Herriman's Krazy Kat doesn't have a gender, and characters in the strip would refer to that cat as either he or she from one story to another.

I think animators would have reflected Herriman's comics. But because of the strip's low popularity, the cartoonists figured it was neccessary to do some changes to spice things up.

[Shoknifeman]

Nothing like the real (Herriman) Krazy Kat; Columbia simply bought the rights to the name, and turned Krazy into a Mickey clone... and the real Krazy would never have had a GF; he was litterally the World's first gay cartoon character. (The mouse he loved was male, and so was Krazy)

[Iwillvibrateonyou]

hey stupiddimbulb do you have svengarlic?

[RetroRabFan]

@fromthesidelines Actually, Ignatz and Offisa Pupp did made one appearance in one Krazy Kat cartoon of the Columbia era. Unfortunately, that short was a flop. Therefore, those two didn't make any appearances other than that one. See Wikipedia for details.

[BazookaBuhnull]

Is Krazy's girlfriend a cat or a dog? I'm not sure she's a dog, considering her ears are pointing downward.

[RetroRabFan]

It's hard to believe that Krazy knows hypnosis.

[RetroRabFan]

A well-polished cartoon.

[BazookaBuhnull]

This Krazy Kat maybe different from the illustrations by Herriman but at least the title character is cuter and less of a dimwit. Also, I'm pretty sure Herriman himself approved the way these cartoonists presented his character.

[TiCar85]

I don't think animators back then could be blamed if their characters in any way resemble Mickey. Mickey's early design had very little distinction and therefore didn't get patented. And because of that, animators had every right to use Mickey as a role model.

It should be noted that Krazy Kat existed 12 years before Mickey, and shouldn't be dismissed as anything cheap.