Felix is the oldest cartoon cat

[wolram]

The cartoon cat is the oldest i know ,dating from 1919 i think, what cartoon
character came next ?

 

[djeipa]

Bunny the rabbit

 

[honestrosewater]

I don't know who came next, but I think Krazy Kat came eariler, appearing in a comic strip started in 1910 and branching out on its own in 1913.

 

[matthyaouw]

When you say cartoon character, are you talking about animation, or do you include comics, etc?

 

[wolram]

I don't know who came next, but I think Krazy Kat came eariler, appearing in a comic strip started in 1910 and branching out on its own in 1913.

Thats one i do not know, did it last long.

 

[wolram]

When you say cartoon character, are you talking about animation, or do you include comics, etc?

Either, i thought Felix to be the oldest cartoon, but it seems i am wrong.

 

[matthyaouw]

http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html
This site has some info on early animation.

 

[brudally]

Wolfram, but i still guess for most of the young people, no one thinks they are works of pictures only. When we talk of cartoons, we all talk about animation/motion pictures of funny characters.

 

[wolram]

So i wasn't wrong, Felix was the first real cartoon ?

 

[Optep]

I don't know who came next, but I think Krazy Kat came eariler, appearing in a comic strip started in 1910 and branching out on its own in 1913.

I don't know that old pictured book. sounds good.

 

[wolram]

I don't know that old pictured book. sounds good.

Ok, krazy Kat is the first then Felix, and the next one was ?

 

[Evo]

"The first cartoon strip ever printed is The Yellow Kid, which first appeared in The New York Journal on October 18, 1896."

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47969

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

Was the Yellow Kid a cat, or just a kid who was yellow?

 

[wolram]

Hmm, Yellow kid , krazy Kat , Felix, and the next one was ?

Thanks Evo.

 

[wolram]

Was the Yellow Kid a cat, or just a kid who was yellow?

A kid who wore a yellow shirt.

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

Apparently "Humorous phases of funny faces" is the first animated film. Little Nemo was a cartoon strip character that made his animated film debut in 1911, way before Felix.

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

A kid who wore a yellow shirt.

Ha! What a great idea for a cartoon character! I didn't really want to know, I was just wondering about the proclivity early animators seemed to have for cats. Or kats.

 

[wolram]

Apparently "Humorous phases of funny faces" is the first animated film. Little Nemo was a cartoon strip character that made his animated film debut in 1911, way before Felix.

Uncle, Uncle who came after Felix ??

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

Gertie the Dinosaur may have followed Felix as a titular/recurring/famous cartoon character. I take it we're not including non-famous, one-off characters in obscure animations.

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

Here we go:
Little Nemo
Gertie the Dinosaur
Colonel Heeza Liar
Bobby Bumps
Mutt and Jeff
Kapten Grogg
Krazy Kat
Thomas Cat (possibly later of Tom & Jerry fame?)
Felix
http://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/program/anihist.html
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend seems to follow, but I don't know whether that's a character or not. Anyone?

 

[Emieno]

But when would Lilo and Stitch come in ?

 

[wolram]

Gertie the Dinosaur may have followed Felix as a titular/recurring/famous cartoon character. I take it we're not including non-famous, one-off characters in obscure animations.

No, no one off's, A dinosaur called Gertie

 

[Emieno]

I truly like that movie anyway

 

[wolram]

But when would Lilo and Stitch come in ?

Not another one, who or what were Lilo and Stitch ?

 

[Emieno]

It is a movie for kids.

 

[brudally]

Not another one, who or what were Lilo and Stitch ?

It is a story about an outer space animal, very idiotic at first but then well-behaved because it is educated by human.