Who Inspired Roger Rabbit?

Wilmer Rivers rivers at seismo.CSS.GOV
Tue Mar 1 07:54:29 CET 1994


Don Rosa writes:
> As I said, and as I am sure
> is an absolute fact, Roger Rabbit is a tribute to all that is NOT
> Disney... it's an imitation of Tex Avery style humor.

Although Roger Rabbit does have a lot of Tex Avery style humor (bulging
eyeballs, etc.), I think it owes perhaps more to Tom and Jerry.  Unfor-
tunately, I **don't** have a comics vault, so I no longer have any of
the T&J comic books that I used to read in the late 1950's, and I can't
make a direct comparison with Roger Rabbit except through my failing
memory.  But what I recall of the "I'll bash you and then you'll bash
me" humor in T&J (now exaggerated to the max in Itchy and Scratchy, who
now have their own comic book, for heaven's sake) seems similar to the
Maroon cartoons style of humor we saw in the Roger Rabbit books (which,
like everyone else, I stopped buying after the first few).

Wilmer Rivers



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