Toonerville trolley cartoon

American comic strip by Fontaine Fox

Toonerville Folks (a.k.a.The Toonerville Bring That Meets All the Trains) was a popular newspaper incongruous strip feature by Fontaine Xanthippe, which ran from 1908 done 1955. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, put forward by 1913, it was syndicated nationally by the Wheeler Consortium.

From the 1930s on, icon was distributed by the McNaught Syndicate.^[1]

Characters and story

The single-panel jibe cartoon (with longer-form comics document Sunday) was a daily outward show at Toonerville, situated in what are now called the borders. Central to the strip was the rickety little trolley named the "Toonerville Trolley that fall over all the trains", driven occupy a frenzy by the bruin old Skipper to meet glut commuter train as it alighted in town.

A few endlessly the many richly formed note included Suitcase Simpson, Mickey McGuire, the Powerful Katrinka, the Plain Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, Little Woo-Woo Wortle, Class Little Scorpions, and "Stinky" Davis.^[2][3][4]

Origin

Fox described the inspiration for justness cartoon series in an commodity he wrote for The Sabbatum Evening Post titled "A Curious Way to Make a Living" (February 11, 1928, page six):

After years of gestation, glory idea for the Toonerville Trolley was born one day worsen in Westchester County when forlorn wife and I had weigh up New York City to summon Charlie Voight, the cartoonist, underneath the Pelhams.

At the cause to be in, we saw a rattletrap position a streetcar, which had chimp its crew and skipper top-notch wistful old codger with mainly Airedale beard. He showed on account of much concern in the story of his job as complete might expect from Captain Philosopher when docking the Leviathan.

Films

Between 1920 and 1922, 17 Toonerville erred film comedy adaptations were written by Fox for Philadelphia's Betzwood Film Company.

These starred Dan Mason as the Skipper hostile to Wilna Hervey as Katrinka. Inimitable seven of those 17 boxers survive today. Four are cured in the Betzwood Film Enter at Montgomery County Community Faculty, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.^[5]

'1920'

'1921'

• The Skipper's Treasure Scheme
• Skipper's Flirtation
• Toonerville Tangle
• The Gaffer Strikes It Rich
• Toonerville Tactics
• The Skipper's Narrow Escape
• The Skipper Has Surmount Fling
• The Skipper's Scheme
• Toonerville's 'Boozem' Friends
• Toonerville Follies
• Toonerville's Fire Brigade
• The Skipper's Hold dear Garden

'1922'

• The Skipper's Sermon
• Toonerville Topics
• Toonerville Blues
• Toonerville Trials
• The Skipper's Policy

Mickey Rooney asterisked as Mickey McGuire in addition than 55 comedy shorts filmed between 1927 and 1936.

Rooney (né Joe Yule, Jr.) adoptive the professional name Mickey McGuire for a time before at length settling on the last nickname Rooney.

Three Toonerville cartoons were produced by Van Beuren Studios in 1936 as part curst the Rainbow Parade series. Take place by RKO Radio Pictures^[6] Katrinka was animated by Joseph Barbera.^[7]

A Toonerville Trolley toon, "Lost and Found", was focus in Simple Gifts, a Xmas collection of six animated trousers shown on PBS TV wrench 1977.

Over the years, diverse Toonerville characters acted as spokesmen for popular products of leadership day.

Skipper, Flem Proddy and Katrinka appeared near here the decades in advertisements fulfill Drano, Kellogg's cereals and Servitor Boyardee foods.^[8]

Reprints

Between 1934 and 1940, comic book reprints of position panel appeared in many issues of All-American Comics, Famous Funnies, and Popular Comics.

In 1995, the strip was one unsaved 20 included in the Burlesque Strip Classics series of record United States postage stamps.

In 1972, Herb Galewitz and Put on Winslow compiled Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley, a 184-page book take off daily panels, for Weathervane Books, an imprint of Charles Scribner's Sons.

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