Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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ALEXANDER ANDERSON, JR. (1920-Oct. 22, 2010)

I sure was a big fan of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show." 

Mr. Anderson created Rocky the Flying Squirrel qnd Bullwinkle J. Moose as well as Canadian Mounty Dudly Do-Right as well as those arch villains Boris and Natasha, agents of Pottsylvania.

According to Mr. Anderson, inspiration for Bullwinkle came from a dream he had where he was playing poker with a group of friends and there was a moose at the table doing "silly card things."  He also thought the name of a car dealership in Berkely, California, Bullwinkel Motors, was pretty funny. 

Before the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show," he worked on "Mighty Mouse" as an apprentice with his uncle, Phil Terry who ran Terrytoon Cartoons.

"Fan Mail Fron Some Flounder." 

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