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...that Winsor McCay's animated film Gertie the Dinosaur(poster pictured) was originally created for a vaudeville act where McCay would seem to interact with the cartoon dinosaur?
...that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novelHe Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
...that an IGN review of "The Rise of the Blue Beetle!" noted that some people would like "wormholes, single-cell organisms and evil intergalactic pirates ... mentioned in the same breath as Batman?"
... that the 2011 film Legend of a Rabbit was made over the course of three years, with a crew of 500 animators involved?
...that the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
...that Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon, whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part)?
...that before beginning a career in animation, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh(pictured) worked as a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company, where he "freaked out" and decided to quit?
...that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
...that Bruce Timm, the producer of the animated film adaptation Batman: Year One, said that adapting the comic story arc was straightforward since the original story was already cinematic?
...that elderly Family Guy character Herbert's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?
...that the Phineas and Ferb episode "Are You My Mummy?" originally aired as part of "Phineas and Ferb-urary," a special event which showed episodes of the series every night in February 2008 on Disney Channel?
...that the Théâtre Optique(pictured) show of 1892 was the first public projection of moving images, predating the Lumière Brothers' screening by three years?
...that the Rugrats episode "At the Movies" introduced the character of Reptar, who became a heavily recurring character throughout the series and the basis of countless merchandising tie-ins?
...that the Simpsons episode "The Devil Wears Nada", in which Marge poses for racy photographs in a calendar, aired soon after she appeared nude on the cover of Playboy?
...that the Simpsons episode "Million Dollar Maybe" will feature a new character created by the winner of a fan-contest organized by the staff of the show?
...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that according to John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis, the shorts included on Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 are "among the finest cartoons ever made"?
...that writer Chris Sheridan, who has received three Emmy Award nominations for his work on Family Guy, initially feared that writing for it would end his career?
...that Monty Oum, the creator of Rooster Teeth Productions' upcoming series RWBY, was concerned that the show focused on female characters but was being developed by a mostly male crew?
...that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny?
...that the scheduled release of the Peanuts movie in 2015 would "commemorate the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas"?
