Gitlin Martin - A Celebration of Animation: the 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters in Television History

Marty Gitlin is a freelance author based in Cleveland. He has had about 120 books published since 2006, including many in the pop culture realm. Included were the Great American Cereal Book , which remained No. 1 in the Breakfast Book and Americana categories on Amazon.com for several months and was featured in Time Magazine , Readers Digest , Wall Street Journal , and New York Times . Gitlin also authored The Greatest Sitcoms of All-Time . During his eleven years as a newspaper journalist, he won forty-five writing awards, including first place for general excellence from The Associated Press. That organization selected him as one of the top four feature writers in Ohio.

Joe Wos has had a long and varied career in the cartoon arts. As a cartoonist he has performed nationwide with his unique blend of storytelling and cartoon arts. He has served as the visiting resident cartoonist of the Charles M. Schulz Museum for the past fifteen years. He has illustrated live symphonies with orchestras throughout the United States. His feature MazeToons, a hybrid of cartoon illustration and mazes, is distributed to newspapers worldwide by Creators Syndicate.

As a cartoon historian, Joe Wos served as both founder and director of the ToonSeum, a cartoon art museum in Pittsburgh. During his seven-year tenure he curated over seventy exhibitions and presented over one hundred programs.

Joe also serves as the historian and brand character integrity consultant for Charlie the Tuna of StarKist fame.

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Copyright 2018 Martin Giltin and Joe Wos

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Names: Gitlin, Marty, author. | Wos, Joe, author.

Title: A celebration of animation : the 100 greatest cartoon characters in television history / Marty Gitlin and Joe Wos.

Description: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017026371 (print) | LCCN 2017025749 (ebook) | ISBN 9781630762797 (ebook) | ISBN 9781630762780 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Cartoon charactersMiscellanea. | Animated television programsMiscellanea.

Classification: LCC NC1765 (print) | LCC NC1765 .G53 2017 (ebook) | DDC 741.5/8dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026371

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FROM JOE:

Special thanks to

Andrew Farago

Van Eaton Galleries

Mark Levy

Comic-Mint.com

Gary Long

Nikki Romero

Zack Kaplan

Tom Kenny

Marilyn Allen

and

Ava Wos

FROM MARTY:

To my now-grown childrenEmily, Andrew, and Melaniewhose love for watching cartoons with me helped keep my perpetual childhood alive.

1.Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Hare-Raising Films/Photofest

2.Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) 20th Century Fox Television. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

3.SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) Nickelodeon. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

4.Daffy Duck Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment/Photofest

5.Stewie Griffin (Family Guy) 20th Century Fox Television. Publicity image, Move Stills Database

6.Snoopy (Peanuts) Iconix Brand Group. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

7.Bullwinkle (Rocky and Bullwinkle) ABC. ABC/Photofest

8.Eric Cartman (South Park) South Park Studios. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

9.Donald Duck (The Mickey Mouse Club) Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Company/Photofest

10.Yogi Bear (Yogi Bear) Hanna-Barbera. Hanna-Barbera Productions/Photofest

11.Popeye Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment/Photofest

12.Pink Panther (The Pink Panther) United Artists. United Artists/Photofest

13.Scooby Doo and Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) Hanna-Barbera. Hanna-Barbera Productions/Photofest

14.Fred Flintstone (The Flintstones) ABC. ABC/Photofest

15.Pinky & the Brain (Pinky and the Brain) Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment/Photofest

16.Ren and Stimpy (Ren and Stimpy) Nickelodeon. Nicklelodeon Network/Photofest

17.Tom and Jerry (Tom and Jerry) Turner Entertainment Company. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

18.Pikachu (Pokemon) Pokeman-2016. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

19.Daria Morgendorffer (Daria) MTV. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

20.Fat Albert Bill Cosby/Filmation Associates. Bill Cosby/Filmation Associates/Photofest

21.Gumby (Gumby and Friends) Gumbyworld. Fox Television/Photofest

22.Woody Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker) Universal Studios. Universal Studios/Photofest

23.Spiderman (Spiderman) NBC. NBC/Photofest

24.Bart Simpson (The Simpsons) 20th Century Fox Television. Publicity image, Movie Still Database

25.The Powerpuff Girls Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. Publicity image, Movie Still Database

26.Yosemite Sam (Looney Tunes) Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment/Photofest

27.Beavis and Butthead (Beavis and Butthead) MTV. MTV/Photofest

28.Mickey Mouse Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Productions/Photofest

29.Batman (Batman) Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. Pictures/Photofest

30.Peter Griffin (Family Guy) 20th Century Fox Television. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

31.Astro Boy (Astro Boy) Suzuki Associates International. Photofest

32.Mighty Mouse (Mighty Mouse) CBS. CBS/Photofest

33.Mr. Magoo (The Mr. Magoo Show) DreamWorks Classics. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

34.Korra (Legend of Korra) Nickelodeon. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

35.Crusader Rabbit (Crusader Rabbit) 20th Century Fox. Publicity image, Movie Still Database

36.Underdog Universal Television. CBS/Photofest

37.Harley Quinn (Batman: The Animated Series) Fox. Fox/Warner Bros./Photofest

38.Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (Looney Tunes) Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Publicity image, Movie Stills Database

40.Alvin (The Alvin Show) NBC. NBC/Photofest

41.Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony) Lionsgate. Lionsgate/Photofest

42.Mr. Peabody (Peabody and Sherman) ABC. ABC/Photofest

43.Bobby Hill (King of the Hill) 20th Century Fox Television. Fox Broadcasting/Photofest

44.Angelica Pickles (The Rugrats) Nickelodeon. Nickleodeon/Photofest

45.Finn and Jake (Adventure Time) Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network/Photofest

56.Charlie Brown (Peanuts) ABC. ABC/Photofest

60.Mr. Burns (The Simpsons) 20th Century Fox Television. Fox/Photofest

61.Space Ghost (Space Ghost) CBS, CBS/Photofest

62.Patrick (SpongeBob SquarePants) Paramount Pictures. Paramount/Photofest

65.The Tick (The Tick) Fox. Fox/Photofest

66.Wanda and Cosmo (Fairly Odd Parents) Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon Network/Photofest