He Shared His Talent With the World

August 23, 2006 7:27 PM

Friz-Freleng-For-All About thirty blogs paid tribute this past Monday to the renowned animator, keeper of pigs, tweety-bird-hungry cats and panthers, and model for the roughest, toughest hombre that ever locked horns with a rabbit. Happy 100th birthday, Friz!
posted by LinusMines (5 comments total)

For uncouth characters, Yosemite Sam has to be one of my all time favourites.

"Great horny toads! Somebody's been getting footy-prints all over my desert!"
posted by furtive at 7:50 PM on August 23, 2006

I always think of his Warner Brothers work, but I totally forgot he directed those early Pink Panther cartoons. "The Pink Phink" was a fave of mine as a kid, but I never knew it won an oscar and was the first Pink Panther short (after the Pink Panter movie credits).
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 8:29 PM on August 23, 2006

And of course, props to the great Carl Stalling. It's hard to imagine the cartoons without his music.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:42 PM on August 23, 2006

I gotta say, High Diving Hare is among my favorite shorts. The gag at the end cracks me up every time. Yosemite Sam rules.
posted by rocketman at 11:44 PM on August 23, 2006

How did I miss this grand commemoration? Sufferin' succotash!!!
posted by wendell at 12:30 AM on August 24, 2006