Comments on: Felix the Cat & Yeti

By: Munnin

Munnin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:19:55 +0000

Wow! I watched Felix on TeeVee regularly as a young tyke. It never occured to me until now that The Professor may have had a connection with Ray Wallace. They appear to have been up to the same shenanigans at about the same time. Although the pogo stick method of planting fake tracks the Professor uses here does seem more technologically sophisticated compared to Wallace’s strap on feet, they appear to be contemporaries at the very least. What I really wonder though, is why the Professor didn’t employ his regular henchman, Rock Bottom, to make the tracks. They’d have imprinted much more deeply because of his much larger physical size, and would have looked more authentic as a result.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:21:33 +0000

Excellent comments, chupachups!

I certainly was celebrating the enjoyment and humor of this cartoon by placing it here. Sorry if that was lost on anyone by my deadpan comedic relief in posting the errors in the cartoon.

It’s a unique piece, taking a trip down memory lane, with the Abominable Snowman waiting in the snowbanks.

By: chupachups

chupachups — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:45:38 +0000

Nice voice work by Jack “Popeye” Mercer, beautiful background paintings, excellent character designs, terrible writing, haha. Stunning color sense and use back then, not to be found in the amateurish-looking cgi crap churned out by the big houses these days.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:19:53 +0000

when the professor was stopped by the crossing guard, I was expecting the worst error that almost everybody has done…I was waiting for penguins to walk by. Except for the recent PC penguin movies, the cartoon industry has a history of either putting penguins at the north pole or polar bears at the south pole. Thanks, Loren, I now remember why I never watched Felix.

By: imamonkey

imamonkey — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:43:22 +0000

lol felix is sticking out of the submarine when it is underwater.

By: mitchigan

mitchigan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:23:09 +0000

My word! Is there anything that is not on You-Tube?

By: CryptoHaus_Press

CryptoHaus_Press — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:11:28 +0000

the biggest mistake i believe?

when pat sullivan sold Felix the Cat’s rights and allowed the venerable feline to be so horribly abused as in these later, color, “Felix can now talk” ‘toons!

arrrghhh! give me the silent b&w Felix anyday!

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:09:11 +0000

Well, you know, the bipedal anthropomorphized felid with a magic bag are also a tad inaccurate, Loren, but COME ON!

By: nikki630

nikki630 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:53:50 +0000

“Four-toed humanlike footprints left as Yeti tracks”

Not to be too geeky, but it is not uncommon for animators to draw hands and feet with only four digits, it gives them less to animate. Look at the hands of Felix and the Professor, your will see that they show three fingers and a thumb. The Simpsons is more recent example — all have four digits, except for god who is shown with five digits

Nicole

By: Saint Vitus

Saint Vitus — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:52:17 +0000

This cartoon is definitely inferior to Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, etc, but of course, those cartoons had pretty inaccurate depictions of certain animals (roadrunners and Tasmanian devils for example), and some of their portrayals of certain ethnic groups were not exactly PC. And of course they didn’t always obey the laws of gravity!