"Bosko never caught on the way Mickey Mouse did, but for several years he was the mainstay of the Warners' cartoon studio. One day a porter at the studio said to young animator Jack Zander, 'I want to ask you something about that character you've got. I know Mickey Mouse, and Krazy Kat, and Oswald the Rabbit ... but Bosko the what?' What indeed?
"If the porter had been able to see a number of the films, he would have realized that Bosko was in fact a cartoonized version of a young black boy. In Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) he spoke a Southern Negro dialect, but in subsequent films this characterization was eschewed - or perhaps forgotten. This could be called sloppiness on the part of [Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising], but it also indicates the uncertain nature of the character itself."
--Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic: A History of Animated Cartoons, NY, 1987, p. 225
"If the porter had been able to see a number of the films, he would have realized that Bosko was in fact a cartoonized version of a young black boy. In Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) he spoke a Southern Negro dialect, but in subsequent films this characterization was eschewed - or perhaps forgotten. This could be called sloppiness on the part of [Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising], but it also indicates the uncertain nature of the character itself."
--Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic: A History of Animated Cartoons, NY, 1987, p. 225
"[Robert Clampett] has accurately described [Buddy] as 'Bosko in whiteface.' More realistically conceived as a human being than Bosko, Buddy has even less personality than the original. Hugh Harman's Bosko cartoons were no classics, but they had a certain style; the Buddy cartoons are generally devoid of style or anything resembling humor. . . . A young in-betweener at the studio named Chuck Jones graduated to the position of animator on the BUDDY series; looking back, Jones feels he was ill-prepared, but 'Fortunately,' he says, 'nothing in the way of bad animation could make Buddy worse than he was anyway.' The character expired after two years and was never missed."
--Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Cartoons, NY, 1987, p. 228
--Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Cartoons, NY, 1987, p. 228
Yes, it was created for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Three (2005) (V).
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