Media: Milt Stein's Supermouse- Coo Coo Comics No 4

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Today we scanned another great story by the underrated Funny Animal cartoonist, Milt Stein. For our previous posts on Stein, see... Milt Stein's Supermouse Comics No. 4 and Milt Stein's Supermouse (Coo Coo Comics No. 7).











We recently recieved this note from Tooner in the comments for our first Milt Stein post...

I had the honor and privilege of being his main assistant (and assistant to the three Georges: Rufle, Germinetti and Cannata) on 'Return to Oz' NBC TV special, produced at Crawley Films, Ottawa (1963/64). It was the first mainstream TV animated project I'd ever worked on.

With typical brashness of callow youth, on our first day to work together, I asked him what other cartoon work he'd done. He mentioned a ton of stuff. I asked if he'd ever drawn comics, and I flipped out (he named many), but especially when he casually added he'd drawn 'Mary Jane and Sniffles'. It had been my favorite comic when I was knee-high to a 'B' pencil. MJ & S were beautifully drawn like Supermouse- in fact there are similarities between Supermouse and Sniffles Mouse, the latter for very young comic readers.

Milt's animation was so wild and sloppy it was all over the place; a challenge to clean up and in-between, but when his animation hit the screen the characters were ALIVE!! A terrific person and great animator and cartoonist.

For more great Milt Stein Supermouse comics, see... Milt Stein's Supermouse Comics No. 4 and Milt Stein's Supermouse (Coo Coo Comics No. 7).

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Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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