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You know each and every detail about your favorite cartoon characters. However, do you know that the funny comic strip you love to watch and read daily was at one time just a blueprint. Many cartoonists dedicated their life to make your life enjoyable. They created such marvelous cool cartoon drawings which later went on to become the most successful animation or comic strip of the century. The drawings that they created actually created history. Lets take a sneak preview of some of the famous creators, directors as well as producers.
Charles Monroe Schulz is the creator of the funny cartoon strip Peanuts in 1950. Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newsprints, with an outstanding readership of 355 million all around the world.It gave the world many widely loved cartoon characters and was also translated in twenty one languages.
Stan Lee
and Steve Ditko created Spiderman, the wall climbing super-human cartoon drawing in 1960. From initial drawing to mega movies, Spiderman has one of the most successful journeys in the animation world today. The Spiderman comics were and still are very popular.
Matt Groening created the yellow faced cartoons in 1930 which we know as the Simpsons. Till date, Simpsons is the longest running American prime time animated series.
Stephen Hillenburg is the creator of the cool and famous Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants in 1993. This cartoon has one of the most outrageous description. SpongeBob SquarePants is a sponge who lives in a pineapple with his house-pet who is a snail named Gary with a cat like meow.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera of the Hanna-Barbera fame bags the credit for drawing number of outstanding characters. They jointly created, wrote and directed cartoon shows like Tom and Jerry, Huckleberry Hound show, Flintstones, Jetsons and Scooby-Doo. They both share seventeen glorious years of partnership with several academy awards.
Friz Freleng was the creator and director of several award winning drawings which includes Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and Sylvester the cat. His most notable achievement was The Pink Panther. DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was to initiate the opening sequence to the film The Pink Panther, for which Friz Freleng created a smooth and cool cat.
Walt Disney, the list would definitely be incomplete without the mention of this legendary cartoon creator, producer and director, to name a few. The twenty-two time Academy award winner founded the world renowned The Walt Disney Company. His most famous creation Mickey Mouse is still the most recognizable figure in the entire world.
When these artists created the cool cartoon drawings, they were not aware that they were actually drawing something which would become an integral part of the lives of millions of people worldwide. There are many more artists who have created worldclass cartoons.
Guess who will make it to this list in a couple of years? Yes, you got it right! You will soon find the creators of Dido and Yappy Abby, Bel and Kewl and Tumo and Ian featured in this list. |
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