Duchess
Is the elegant cartoon Persian cat created for Walt Disney’s 1970 animated feature, The Aristocats. She and O’Malley the Alley Cat were amongst the most loved of cartoon cats ever drawn.
Garfield
The fat, lazy funny patter cat, was created by Jim Davis in 1978. Within four years, Garfield’s comic strip was appearing in a thousand newspapers around the world. He also has computer animated and cartoon movies under his belt.
Felix the Cat
Unlike other cartoon felines, Felix began his career as a movie star, rather than a cartoon strip. Created by Australian Pat Sullivan, Felix was the star of the first “talkie” cartoon, a year before Mickey Mouse began to talk. Felix was also the subject of the very first television test broadcasts in 1928, and was NBC’s official test pattern until the late 1930’s.
Sylvester
The animated cartoon character, first appeared in the “Life With Feathers,” television cartoon episode in 1945, by Warner Brothers.
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