Dave Fleischer

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

Sep 17, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

By the summer of 1933, the Fleischer brothers’ self-named animation studio was riding high. Based largely on the success of flapper dream girl Betty Boop, whose risqué series of cartoons became immensely popular in the […]

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … Saturday Morning Cartoons!

Jan 9, 2016 Brandie Ashe 1

In 1941, Paramount approached Max and Dave Fleischer, heads of their in-house animation production, with a proposal: to adapt the increasingly popular Superman comic book into an animated series for the big screen. But the Fleischers were reluctant. […]