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When I was kid, my mom bought so much Betty Boop stuff. Betty Boop mugs. Betty Boop plates. I couldn’t take a step without seeing the little red dress in my periphery. Now, I had no idea who Betty Boop was, but I gathered she was important for some reason.
It looks like I’ll get to find out what that reason is now that Dynamite has partnered with Fleischer Studios and King Features Syndicate to bring Betty Boop to the comics page after twenty years of boop-less drudgery.
Cartoonist Max Fleischer first created the premiere female animated star in 1930 for Talkartoons, one of the first animated series to feature voice work. Since her inception, she’s been featured in countless cartoons on TV and in film.
According to Dynamite CEO Nick Barrucci:
“Betty Boop is timeless, like Superman, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, or Louis Armstrong. She’s a fixture of American culture, with such a wide appeal that her image can be found anywhere from a young child’s wardrobe to the toughest biker’s tattoos. Every generation over the past 85 years has embraced her charm and personality. Personally, I can recall her appearance in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the defining moment in which I first fell in love with the character. We hope that Dynamite’s upcoming line of original Betty Boop comic books and graphic novels will serve as the defining moment for a whole new generation of ‘Boopers’.”
1 Comments on Betty Boop Comes Back to Comics After 20 Years, last added: 7/10/2015
Betty Boop fits right in with any other classic comic character in that, just like Superman, Batman, Marvel characters, etc., her creation involved screwing someone over.
She was a caricature of singer/actress Helen Kane, famous for her flapper look, cutesy voice, and for her “boop-oop-a-doop” song. She took Fleischer to court, but was unable prove they’d based the character on her (though it’s since been confirmed they had), and Betty Boop essentially replaced her in the public consciousness.
Maybe the only good thing to come out of the whole thing is that in keeping Helen Kane from trying to claim the phrase “boop-oop-a-doop” as her own, Fleischer also blocked themselves from ever being able to trademark the phrase themselves.
I regret starting this review on a negative note, but it should be said that "Anime Fan Communities" is not the most accurately-titled book. Author Sandra Annett takes international anime fandom as her starting point, but she ends up engaging with a much wider range of topics.
What do you get when you cross a British reality TV show host, the studio that made "Happy Feet," and an 84-year-old cartoon sex symbol? You may not have to wait long to find out.
If the measure of a civilization is what it prints on its paper towels, then Turkey currently has the most advanced civilization on this planet. Behold, the Betty Boop paper towel.
French comics artist/animator Joann Sfar created this brand new, somewhat bizarre animated promo for Lancome Cosmetics. Betty Boop stars in the commercial for a new line of mascara, together with spokesmodel Daria Werbowy.
Meanwhile in London, Opi has introduced a new line of nail polish, brought to you by a character famous for wearing gloves! I love how the pose shows Minnie admiring her nails, somehow, using X-ray vision to see through the gloves.
My grandmother passed away when I was nine—a tragic death on Halloween eve. My favorite uncle, her son, passed away before my son could meet him—another terrible death with reverberating consequences. I think of Grandmom and Uncle Danny all the time—the succession of paintings (the girl with the braid) up the stairwell of her Philadelphia row home, the unending parade of absurd gifts and fanciful tales that traveled always with him. I never questioned their love for me. I always felt safe when they were near.
And so I miss them.
My name is Beth Ellen Kephart. No Elizabeth. Nothing to shorten to Liz, Lizzie, Libby, Eliza, Betta. Just Beth, and then the Ellen, but my grandmother and my uncle called me Betty Boop. They called me Betsy, too, and other things, but what took hold in me was Betty Boop. When I go somewhere and Betty Boop is there, I bring her home with me. Look, I say, to the clouds above. You are still alive to me. Today, in Jim Thorpe, I found this one, sitting on a swing.
2 Comments on Bringing Betty Boop home with me, last added: 10/18/2011
Reverberating consequences. So true, how deaths can affect us through time, causing such trauma.
But then, there is the good that reverberates, such as as the comfort that can be drawn from a special name, as you mentioned. My maternal grandfather called me "Cassie." No one else in the world did. When in my memory I hear him calling me that, the love comes flooding back to me, also the feeling of specialness.
When my patenal grandmother died, a grieving cousin said "Nana loved me best." At first we thought he was saying he was her favorite, Then we realized what he meant was no one's love made him feel as loved and special as hers did. And Nana did that for each of us, for all of us grandchildren, and there were a lot of us. The way she loved was all-enveloping and safe, and made you feel like the best person in the world. Like her hugs, you wanted to stay in her embrace forever. I can still call upon the memory of them, and feel them again, when I need them. That doesn't die.
What a beautiful post. I miss my nana everyday, and so silly of me, but I miss my best friend Charlee, my dog everyday since he passed in August...he was with me for nearly 14 years.
Apparently the Fleischer estate has lost a court battle for the rights to Betty Boop, a character created by Grim Natwick at Max Fleischer’s studio in 1930. Fleischer Studios has been co-licensing (with King Features) the property (along with Pudgy, Grampy, Binmbo and Ko-Ko the Clown) for several decades now.
The Fleischer Studio tried to sue Avela Inc. over its licensing of public domain Betty Boop poster images (for handbags and T-shirts). The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (based in San Francisco) ruled against the Fleischers, saying in their decision, “If we ruled that AVELA’s depictions of Betty Boop infringed Fleischer’s trademarks, the Betty Boop character would essentially never enter the public domain.”
According to court documents, the Fleischer Studio originally assigned its rights to Betty Boop to Paramount Pictures on July 11, 1941. Paramount assigned those rights to Harvey Films, Inc on June 27th, 1958. Harvey actively licensed the character in the early 1960s. On May 15th 1980, Harvey Cartoons transferred “Betty Boop and her Gang” to Alfred Harvey and his brothers. Judge Susan Graber said there was no break in the chain of title.
So where does that leave Ms. Boop? No longer represented by the heirs of Max Fleischer and King Features Syndicate? Does this mean Harvey Comics – or by extention, its current owner Classic Media – the owner of the property? Or is the character now in public domain.
For the record: The master film elements to original Fleischer Betty Boop cartoons are still owned by Paramount Pictures (and are maintained at the UCLA Film and Television Archive). Many of those films have legally entered the public domain, many others have not (they are still protected under copyrights held by Paramount/Viacom). We hope that someday the studio deems it fit to restore and release these classics on DVD.
This weekend in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Rapids Betty Boop Festival will celebrate its native son: Myron “Grim” Natwick, the designer and original animator of Betty Boop at Fleischer Studios in 1930. The Asifa Animation Archive will be there with an exhibit and screenings featuring Natwick’s greatest work. Nina Paley will also be there screening Sita Sings The Blues, and there will be parties, dances, motorcycle rallys, and live music. The whole event culminates in the unveiling of a historical marker in honor of Grim Natwick at their museum. For more information, check the Boop Festival website.
Here’s a curio: a 1930s vintage toy projector slide show, featuring Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop, Koko and Bimbo in a new adventure in the “real world”. If you ever wanted to see Bimbo naked… here’s your chance!
I have so very little time to do my own work (I steal the hours; I beg for them) and so today, when it seemed I would have the afternoon to write, I decided to be a girl instead. To not try to pound something provable out of every single minute—a book read, a line written, a house cleaned, a meal cooked, a paper graded, a dance step learned—and to go, with the rest of the world, apparently, to the mall.
I found the big earrings for my way cool artsy friend, Denise. I found a three-dollar diamond ring (the size of an elephant's eye) and a pair of black above-the-elbow gloves (Halloween stores are the best when you are shopping for your ballroom dance showcase). I found a pair of jeans (I was down to just one) and some new socks, because I've decided that, come Autumn, you really do need more than four pairs of socks.
It was, all in all, an exhilarating afternoon of doing nothing that will add up to much of anything in the end. And sometimes that matters most of all.
3 Comments on Three-dollar Diamonds, last added: 10/11/2009
Betty Boop fits right in with any other classic comic character in that, just like Superman, Batman, Marvel characters, etc., her creation involved screwing someone over.
She was a caricature of singer/actress Helen Kane, famous for her flapper look, cutesy voice, and for her “boop-oop-a-doop” song. She took Fleischer to court, but was unable prove they’d based the character on her (though it’s since been confirmed they had), and Betty Boop essentially replaced her in the public consciousness.
Maybe the only good thing to come out of the whole thing is that in keeping Helen Kane from trying to claim the phrase “boop-oop-a-doop” as her own, Fleischer also blocked themselves from ever being able to trademark the phrase themselves.