Rocky and Bullwinkle creator and animation artist Alexander Anderson Jr has died at the age of 90.

The pioneering cartoonist, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's, passed away at an assisted living facility in California.

The show spawned movie spin-offs including The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) which starred Robert De Niro.

Before Rocky and Bullwinkle, Anderson worked on Mighty Mouse.

Anderson's wife Patricia told the Associated Press news agency that the inspiration for Bullwinkle came from a dream he had where he was playing poker with some friends and a moose.

The character's name came from a car dealership in Berkeley called Bullwinkel Motors, which Anderson had found funny at the time.

Anderson began his own company with college friend Jay Ward.

The duo worked out of a garage behind Anderson's family home in Berkeley where they created Crusader Rabbit and his friend Rags the Tiger along with Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties and Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Crusader Rabbit was among the first animated series produced for television and aired on NBC in the 1950s.

From another thread somewhere else:

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                                 "The End."

If you barely remember the R&B cartoons from childhood, you owe it to yourself to re-watch them as an adult.  You will enjoy them much more.  

Animaniacs-era WB cartoons snuck in some adult humor as a homage to the Chuck Jones-era originals, but adult humor wasn't the basis of the show. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was the last bastion of children's entertainment intended to be enjoyed as much by adults as it was for kids.

Good Lord, let's hope that Dave Coulier does not see this as a chance to revive his overworked Bullwinkle schtick.

I loved this series (and mighty mouse for that matter)

R.I.P. Alexander J. Anderson, your work has been enjoyed immensly.

RIP Alexander,your shows were great. :)

Good Lord, let's hope that Dave Coulier does not see this as a chance to revive his overworked Bullwinkle schtick.


Then who'll do the voice for Rocky?  ???  I mean June Foray is 93 years old.

(Look, the original was a 12" house vinyl recording.  You want a real video?  Go make one!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJrAurHgfk

But no memorial (especially on a pop music site) would be complete without the history of Boris Badenough's Hey Rocky!  

Now here's something we hope you'll really like: a link to something obscure: an instrumental version with a slightly different echo effect, and it's wide open for loading up with any samples you choose!

(Look, the original was a 12" house vinyl recording.  You want a real video?  Go make one!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJrAurHgfk

But no memorial (especially on a pop music site) would be complete without the history of Boris Badenough's Hey Rocky!  

Now here's something we hope you'll really like: a link to something obscure: an instrumental version with a slightly different echo effect, and it's wide open for loading up with any samples you choose!


very nice.

In the age of Flintstones and Jetsons, Rocky & Bullwinkle was like Plato...with better jokes!

Wow, I had no idea he'd been around this long. RIP A.A., you'll be missed. Great characters that will live on.

In the age of Flintstones and Jetsons, Rocky & Bullwinkle was like Plato...with better jokes!


and more comical stuff.