Watterson opposed the structure publishers imposed on Sunday newspaper cartoons: the standard cartoon starts with a large, wide rectangle featuring the cartoon's logo or a throwaway panel tangential to the main area so that newspapers pressed for space can remove the top third of the cartoon if they wish ; the rest of the strip is presented in a series of rectangles of different widths.

Two different animated cartoon series also starred ' Charlie ' a tramp character, the first a series of nine shorts from 1916 by Movca Film Service.

* Cyril Sneer, the fictional villain aardvark of the 1980s cartoon series The Raccoons

Comic strips, also known as " cartoon strips " in the United Kingdom, are found daily in newspapers worldwide, and are usually a short series of cartoon illustrations in sequence.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

As mentioned new personalities replace old ones ( as in Lionel / Tony Blairs — flairs ), or pop culture introduces new words — as in " I haven't a Scooby " ( from Scooby Doo, the eponymous cartoon dog of the cartoon series ) meaning " I haven't a clue ".

He is also well known in Animation as the Mad Scientist Dr. Animo in the Ben 10 series, Chef Mung Daal in the children's cartoon Chowder, and Eddie the Squirrel in CatDog.

In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.

Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.

They worked with the character again in 1967 though, when they helped Rankin / Bass co produce their film King Kong Escapes ( which was loosely based on a cartoon series R / B had produced ).

In 1993, TV Guide names Gumby the best cartoon series of the 1950s in its issue celebrating 40 years of television.

In 1983, he worked to license the D & D product line into the successful Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series.

The following year, he published his first cartoon series, Totor, in the Scouting magazine Le Boy-Scout Belge.

* 1997: Ivanhoe the King's Knight a televised cartoon series produced by CINAR and France Animation.

Lewis and his popular movie characters were animated in the Filmation cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.

* Kernel ( Lilo & Stitch ), experiment 014 from the Lilo & Stitch cartoon series

* K-9 ( Looney Tunes ), Marvin the Martian's pet Martian dog in the Looney Tunes cartoon series from Warner Bros

* Mars ( Biker Mice from Mars ), the planet as it appears in the cartoon series

* The Mole ( Happy Tree Friends ), a character from the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends

* M. A. D., a fictional evil organization led by Dr. Claw from the cartoon series Inspector Gadget

* Milton ( cartoon ), series of cartoons for Saturday Night Live and the film Office Space

There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7, 300, 000 episodes.

The club nickname and its cartoon logo have been criticized for perpetuating Native American stereotypes.

Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning American chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, " I think I was named equally for Linus the Peanuts cartoon character ", noting that this makes him half " Nobel-prize-winning chemist " and half " blanket-carrying cartoon character ".

This award was for recognition of the American cartoon as an instrument in war, peace, education and in the artistic betterment of our cultural environment.

* Pico de Paperis, an Italian name for Ludwig von Drake, a character in the American Walt Disney cartoon series

The rabbit as trickster appears in American popular culture ; for example the Br ' er Rabbit character from African-American folktales and Disney animation ; and the Warner Bros. cartoon character Bugs Bunny.

Richard F Outcault's last Hogan's Alley cartoon for Truth magazine, Fourth Ward Brownies, was published on 9 February 1895 and reprinted in the New York World newspaper on 17 February 1895, beginning one of the first comic strips in an American newspaper.

One of his first serious works in caricature was the cartoon " Peace " ( 1862 ), directed against those in the North who opposed the prosecution of the American Civil War.

* Political cartoon, NY Times / Harper's Weekly, December 21, 1895 Our American Czar and His Do-Nothing Policy

" Three bones — a bountiful tip ", a political cartoon from the American press of 1918.

* August 21 – Friz Freleng, American cartoon director ( d. 1995 )

* September 5 – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, American cartoon

The entire series of events was ridiculed in the press as Dambargo, Mob-Rage, Go-bar -' em or O-grab-me (' Embargo ' spelled backward ); there was a cartoon ridiculing the Act as a snapping turtle, named " O ' grab me ", grabbing at American shipping.

According to cartoon creator / voice actor, Seth MacFarlane, the voice of Roger the Alien on the Fox television show American Dad!

The Tomfoolery Show is an American cartoon comedy television series made and first broadcast in 1970, based on the works of Edward Lear.

Frederick C. " Fred " Quimby ( July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965 ) was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

* Perennial Pictures Film Corporation, an independent American animated cartoon studio founded in 1979

Some television shows that use " queer " in their titles include both the British and North American versions of Queer as Folk, Queer Eye, and the cartoon Queer Duck.

In 2011, American cartoonist Bill Holbrook published a cartoon in which the toddler Leonardo, having time-traveled to our century, needs to be fed.

The performance consisted of McCay interacting with Gertie, a cartoon dinosaur based on the Brontosaurus skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History.

Mickey Mouse Works is an American television show that features the cartoon character Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments.

Ted Osborne ( February 6, 1900 or 1901 – March 12, 1968 ) was an American writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters.

Winsor Zenic McCay ( September 26, 1869 – July 26, 1934 ) was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo ( begun 1905 ) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ).