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LAFAYETTE -- A new store at Olde Lafayette Village is devoted to the wide-eyed, big-grinned Felix the Cat, who has made his way from the era of silent films into a modern-day iconic cartoon character.
NEW YORK — “Guess you could say I hoard,” Tommy José Stathes said as he maneuvered around the shelves of his storage unit. Large enough to accommodate a minivan, it was stuffed with thousands of film ...
DreamWorks Animation has acquired all rights to Felix the Cat, the feline cartoon from the silent film era, DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said during a speech at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. A ...
DreamWorks Animation has acquired the rights to the iconic 1920s cartoon character Felix the Cat for an undisclosed sum, adding the cat to its library of classic characters including Lassie, Waldo, ...
It’s rare when they are showing cartoons at L.A.’s CineFamily/Silent Movie Theatre without me, but that’s what’s planned on Wednesday December 1st. Animator Tom Sito will host a program of Pioneering ...
There was no cash in this magic bag. The Australian descendants of one of the creators of Felix the Cat claim an upstate New York man cut them out of the business for decades and controlled the rights ...
A point that has fallen through the cracks in the contretemps is that Ferguson's characterization of Felix the Cat is just plain wrong -- he's not lucky, he's plucky and resourceful. His ...
Felix the Cat reigned over the silver screen years before he found his way to a Figueroa Street car dealership. Created in 1919 by artist Otto Messmer, the animated cartoon character even predated ...
Beavis and Butt-head were not what the creators of Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat had in mind when they inked their modest characters, but animated personalities have become lasting staples of ...