Thanks so much, BossRadio! I didn't want to get that wrong. I guess I remembered the Jack part of the name. Now, I'm trying to recall the other cartoons. It was in a really great book on cartoons, which I read in 1993. It was one of those coffee table books. It also detailed plenty of Trivia about various toons.
Walt Disney had a cartoon cat named Walter in his partly-live-action 1920s Alice silent cartoons. At the time, lots of animators were ripping off the popular Felix, and Felix creator Otto Mesmer ( or somebody else ) was going to sue --Walt ended up creating Oswald Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse.
It would've been nice if Felix was the star of Disney features, though! Too bad Felix did not have more syndication for those 1960s cartoons. I loved those. I've bought the DVDs of the silent films he did.
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