Do any of you like Cartoons?

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Yes I like cartoons, especially drawn ones. I sometimes watch the new Disney stuff, but it isn't the same as the classics.

I like old Disney, that Raccoons show (I can't remember exactly what it's called), Babar the Elephant, My Little Pony, Recess, Rugrats and my favourite - Arthur.

^ do you mean the Canadian cartoon “The Racoons” 1980s and 1990s?

https://1075koolfm.com/remember-the-raccoons/

Oh yes, that's the one! Thanks

I made a little mistake.

Rodney Rodent wasn't part of Underdog. He was part of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.

The theme music to Courageous Cat was almost the same as the Peter Gunn theme i think.

The Frog sounded like Edward G Robinson. The guy who invented Courageous Cat was the same guy who invented Batman.

Ok here is one: (print cartoon). Fearless Fosdick

Part of on ongoing storyline from Al Capp’s L’il Abner. Fearless Fosdick was a takeoff on Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy.

i liked how in "fearless fosdick" the bullet holes were about 3 inches wide and you could see through them.

Well, sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Finger

Yep. A real tragedy that Finger wasn’t given credit till much later.

that's the fickle "finger" of fate right there.

Laugh-In!

Was Laugh-in a cartoon?

I recall the Laugh-O-lympics. With Peter ‘Potomus.

Anyone remember the Wacky Racers? I liked professor Pat Pending and his Convert-a-Car.

Another obscure one was Mission: Magic - in many ways a precursor to the Magic School Bus tv show decades later.

In Print cartoons i like Pogo ‘Possum and Tin Tin and also Asterisk the Gaul.

And, of course, the Peanuts gang by Charles (Sparky) Schultz.

This one was before my day but i have seen reprints:

Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend ...
End date: January 9, 1927
Launch date: October 15, 1905

I wasn’t aware of the controversy - thanks for the link.

Yes. Batman TAS is probably my favorite piece of fictional media (along with its movies).

I fondly remember a nice teacher in grade 3 that would play the "classic" Disney animated movies every couple of weeks or so, which I quite enjoyed. Others would play "classic" WB or HB stuff in other grades.

I still boycott Disney over their lawsuit on Dan O'Neil, who used their characters in a parody, among other things. I am also very unhappy with the whole superhero genre, because it portrays villains as openly evil and easy to spot, rather than as men in nice suits who shun publicity.

Yes, I remember Wacky Races. Dick Dastardly and Muttly crossed over into that series (from their WWI airplane cartoons chasing an allied pigeon). I have a mid-1990s video game of this series.

I have some of the Little Nemo collector books that reprint the newspaper comic strips. They are hard to find and are expensive to buy, some run $500 each. McCay also did the first animated/live action cartoon film with “Gertie the Dinosaur”. He did that around 1912 if I remember right. It was a means to introduce the public to animation on film. Little Nemo was released on the NES back in the late 1980s. (Note: I just checked and was off by two years on Gertie. It came out in 1914.)

I have a small collection of platinum era (pre-Superman) comic books. Most of the ones I own have less than 100 known copies world wide. Time is not kind to those books, as they were never designed to exist for that long. The poor paper quality is a major problem to their continued existence.