The Fox and the Crow (animated characters)
| Fox and Crow | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Fox and the Grapes (December 5, 1941) |
| Last appearance | Punchy de Leon (January 12, 1950) |
| Created by | Frank Tashlin |
| Based on | Fox and the Grapes |
| Voiced by | Both characters: Mel Blanc (1941) Frank Graham (1942–1946) Cal Howard (1947–1949) (as Fox) Dave Barry (1947–1949) (as Crow) John T. Smith (1948–1949) Daws Butler (1950) |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Fox (Fauntleroy) Crow (Crawford) |
| Gender | Males |
The Fox and the Crow are a pair of
The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated
Columbia cartoons
Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941
Although Tashlin directed no more films in the series (despite playing a supervisory role on the following two shorts, Woodman, Spare That Tree and Toll Bridge Troubles, prior to his departure), Screen Gems continued producing Fox and the Crow shorts, many of them directed by Bob Wickersham, until the studio closed in 1946.[5] Screen Gems had acquired enough of a backlog of completed films that the "Fox and Crow" series continued through 1949.
By this time, Columbia had signed a distribution deal with a new animation studio,
An unrelated, six-minute, silent animated short titled The Fox and the Crow, produced by Fables Studio, was released in 1921.[6]
List of shorts
Screen Gems
In 1943, due to the series success, Columbia gave the Fox and the Crow their own series separate from the Color Rhapsodies; it lasted until 1946. All cartoons from Room and bored (1943) to Mysto-fox (1946) belong to this series.
| Film | Direction | Original release date | Series |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fox and the Grapes | Frank Tashlin | December 5, 1941 | Color Rhapsody |
| Woodman, Spare That Tree | Bob Wickersham | July 2, 1942 | Color Rhapsody |
| Toll Bridge Troubles | November 27, 1942 | Color Rhapsody | |
| Slay It With Flowers | January 8, 1943 | Color Rhapsody | |
| Plenty Below Zero | May 14, 1943 | Color Rhapsody | |
| Tree for Two | June 21, 1943 | Color Rhapsody | |
| A-Hunting We Won't Go | August 23, 1943 | Color Rhapsody | |
| Room and Bored | September 30, 1943 | Fox and Crow | |
| Way Down Yonder in the Corn | November 25, 1943 | Fox and Crow | |
| The Dream Kids | January 5, 1944 | Fox and Crow | |
| Mr. Moocher | September 8, 1944 | Fox and Crow | |
| Be Patient, Patient | October 27, 1944 | Fox and Crow | |
| The Egg-Yegg | December 8, 1944 | Fox and Crow | |
| Ku-Ku Nuts | March 30, 1945 | Fox and Crow | |
| Treasure Jest | Howard Swift | August 30, 1945 | Fox and Crow |
| Phoney Baloney | Bob Wickersham | September 13, 1945 | Fox and Crow |
| Foxy Flatfoots | April 11, 1946 | Fox and Crow | |
| Unsure Runts | Howard Swift | May 16, 1946 | Fox and Crow |
| Mysto-Fox | Bob Wickersham | August 29, 1946 | Fox and Crow |
| Tooth or Consequences | Howard Swift | June 5, 1947 | Phantasy |
| Grape Nutty | Alex Lovy | April 14, 1949 | Color Rhapsody |
UPA
| Film | Direction | Original release date | Series |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hoodlum | John Hubley | December 23, 1948 | Jolly frolics |
| The Magic Fluke | March 24, 1949 | Jolly frolics | |
| Punchy de Leon | January 12, 1950 | Jolly frolics |
In other media
Comic books
| The Fox and the Crow | |
|---|---|
 The Fox and the Crow #1 (Jan. 1952). Cover artist unknown. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | Dec. 1951/Jan. 1952 - February–March 1968 |
| No. of issues | 108 |
| Main character(s) | The Fox and the Crow Stanley and His Monster |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper |
| Artist(s) | Jim Davis |
The Fox and the Crow starred in several
The duo received its own title, The Fox and the Crow, which ran 108 issues (Jan. 1952 - March 1968). Until the 1954 demise of Comic Cavalcade, Fox and Crow were cover-featured on three DC titles. They continued on the cover of Real Screen Comics through its title change to TV Screen Cartoons from #129-138 (Aug. 1959 - Feb. 1961), the final issue.
The Fox and the Crow itself was renamed Stanley and His Monster beginning with #109 (May 1968), after the back-up feature, begun in #95 (Jan. 1966), that had taken over in popularity. For the last ten years of its existence, The Fox and the Crow was written by Cecil Beard, assisted by his wife, Alpine Harper. The illustrator was Jim Davis (b. 1915), although it was generally unsigned.[8]
Feature films
Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but were later dropped for unknown reasons.[9]
See also
Footnotes
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "The Comic Book Price Guide For Great Britain - FOX AND THE CROW". www.comicpriceguide.co.uk.
- ^ "1940s Columbia Screen Gems Posters |". cartoonresearch.com.
- ISBN 9780452259935.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "The Fox and the Crow". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Fox And The Crow (Fables Studios, Keith-Albee Theatres)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).[dead link]
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.)
Animated cartoons were big business on movie screens, and lots of publishers hoped that success could translate onto the pages of comic books.... DC editor Whitney Ellsworth licensed the characters of Charles Mintz' Screen Gems Studio from their distributor, Columbia. The resulting anthology, Real Screen Comics, starred the Fox and the Crow.
{{cite book}}:|first2=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ The Fox and The Crow #97, April–May 1966 letters column
- ^ "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman". www.dailyscript.com.
External links
- The Fox and the Crow at the Grand Comics Database
- Real Screen Funnies at the Grand Comics Database
- The Columbia Crow's Nest via The Wayback Machine
- The Fox and the Crow at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016.