The Animated Universal Classic Monsters

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives - Daffy Duck</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the 1930s-1950s no movie show was complete without a cartoon and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a caricature of a celebrity or preferably both. In the same period Universal Studios dominated the horror genre with its Classic Monsters: Dracula Frankenstein's Monster the Mummy the Invisible Man the Wolf Man the Phantom of the Opera and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It was inevitable that the monsters would make appearances in contemporaneous animation and the tradition continues today in television shows like </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Simpsons. </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Matthew Hahn author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Animated Marx Brothers and The Animated Peter Lorre</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> has found over a thousand cartoons featuring the monsters in movies TV commercials music videos computer games and fan films including abandoned projects coincidences connections and apocrypha. The monsters' animated avatars play opposite Mickey Mouse Porky Pig Daffy Duck Mighty Mouse Woody Woodpecker Mr. Magoo the Pink Panther Kaibutsu-kun Beany and Cecil Inspector Gadget Spider-Man the Super Friends Scooby-Doo the Transformers Ghostbusters Muppet Babies Garfield Tiny Toons Animaniacs Rocko the Fantastic Four Freakazoid Catdog SpongeBob Squarepants Patrick Star Billy and Mandy Squidbillies Tom and Jerry Doraemon Phineas and Ferb Cleveland Brown Uncle Grandpa the Venture Bros. the Incredible Hulk Teen Titans Mr. Bean Rick and Morty Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Abbott and Costello. They have appeared in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mad Monster Party? </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(1967) the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hotel Transylvania </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>franchise </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Minions </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2015) the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Monster High</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> franchise the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Groovie Goolies </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>franchise </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Munsters </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>franchise the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Castlevania </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>franchise </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Family Guy </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(1999)</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Futurama </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(1999) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Fairly OddParents </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2001) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Robot Chicken </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2005) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mary Shelley's Frankenhole </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2010). Creators include Walt Disney Frank Tashlin Paul Terry Chuck Jones Tex Avery Dave Fleischer Walter Lantz Bob Clampett Tom Ruegger and Butch Hartman.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Illustrated. Includes index notes and bibliography. This book should be on the shelf of all animation aficionados classic movie fans gamers pop culture enthusiasts history buffs and lovers of fun facts.</span></p>