![]() Warren Foster is responsible for writing many of the greatest cartoons ever made… He started as a gag man on Fleischer’s Popeye series in New York, and moved West in 1938 to join Bob Clampett at Warner Bros. Here is an example of a story by my favorite golden age story man… Warren Foster. I’ve heard the same sort of admissions of ignorance from producers and directors, as well as artists and animators. To be fair, this sort of ignorance of the history of our craft isn’t just limited to writers. They had no idea who pioneered their profession and the process these people used to create cartoons for nearly half a century. ![]() The only names they could mention were other current scriptwriters, or novelists, journalists and live action screenwriters who worked in totally different media. Surely current cartoon writers would have golden age writer heros, just like animators study golden age animators like Milt Kahl or Grim Natwick…īut none of the scriptwriters participating in the discussion could name a single golden age cartoon writer. It’s a fair question- one that I’ve heard animators discuss and argue about on many occasions. Who was your favorite golden age cartoon writer? In listening to these arguments by current cartoon scriptwriters, I began to wonder how much they really knew about the process used to make the classic cartoons they expressed respect for. They never seemed to address the fact that prior to 1960 stories for cartoons weren’t created and developed with words in script form- they were drawn. They claimed that it was just a matter of John’s personal tastes, not a reflection on the effectiveness of the process itself. The scriptwriters in the comments dismissed John K’s points as old fashioned and irrelevant to the current scene, while expressing respect of a general sort for the classic cartoons of the past. ![]() (See also, of the 1938 Disney Training Manual). In support of his argument, he presented video clips of Walt Disney and Walter Lantz discussing the qualifications of the people who wrote their cartoons. One of John’s main points is that the golden age cartoons that we all regard as the greatest cartoons ever created were written by cartoonists as storyboards, not written in words as scripts. The other day, a discussion on cartoon writing erupted in response to recent posts on the subject in John Kricfalusi’s blog. Gemma Ross, Milton Knight, Claudio Riba, Eric Graf, Michael Fallik, Gary Francis, Joseph Baptista, Kelsey Sorge-Toomey, Alexander Camarillo, Alex Vassilev, Ernest Kim, Danny Young, Glenn Han, Sarah Worth, Chris Paluszek, Michael Woodside, Giancarlo Cassia, Ross Kolde, Amy Rogers Janet Blatter, Keith Lango Animation, Thorsten Bruemmel, David Soto, Paul Dini, Rik Maki, Ray Pointer, James Tucker, Rogelio Toledo, Nicolas Martinez, Joyce Murray Sullivan, David Wilson, David Apatoff, San Jose State Shrunkenheadman Club, Matthew DeCoster, Dino's Pizza, Chappell Ellison, Brian Homan, Barbara Miller, Wes Archer, Kevin Dooley, Caroline Melinger Paul Husband, Nancy Cartwright, Mike Fontanelli, Tom & Jill Kenny, Will Finn, Ralph Bakshi, Sherm Cohen, Marc Deckter, Dan diPaola, Kara Vallow John Kricfalusi, Mike Van Eaton, Rita Street, Jorge Garrido, Andreas Deja, John Canemaker, Jerry Beck, Leonard Maltin, June Foray, Paul and John Vinci, B. Building A Community of Creative People in LAĪnimation Resources depends on your contributions to support its services to the worldwide animation community.
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