Comical comics
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Page 21 of 34  Distinctive Picket Lines, Mad (1960). Art: George Woodbridge. Script: Frank Jacobs. The Disney craze soon inspired comics starring other animated cartoon characters, notably those from the movie and TV shows produced by Warner Brothers, MGM, Walter Lantz and Hanna-Barbera. Again, Dell were in the forefront, hatching a particularly lucrative licensing deal with Warners, which resulted in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies in 1941 (complete with a regular final panel bearing the words 'That's All Folks!'). Titles devoted to individual characters in the comic followed, including Bugs Bunny (1942), Porky Pig (1942) and Daffy Duck (1953). Some strips were original stories, while others were adaptations of classic cartoons (commonly directed by the great Tex Avery). |