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The earliest cartoon strip, named "The Yellow Kid," was shown in the New York Journal in 1896.
The longest running newspaper comic strip is "The Katzenjammer Kids," which was first published in 1897. It is still in publication.
The most filmed cartoon character - Zorro has been shown in 69 films. Created by Johnston McCully, he was the first comic strip character to be the subject shown in a major film, The Mark of Zorro (USA 1920).
The most valuable cartoon movie poster was a poster for the Walt Disney short, Alice's Day at Sea (USA 1924), was sold in London England at $36534.00 in 1994.
Rugrats the cartoon has been around for a whole decade (ten years). There has been 1 episode when they are not babies. It was named Rugrats All Growed Up.
The most syndicated comic strip was Peanuts by Charles Schulz (USA) appears in 2,620 different news papers in 75 different countries.
Mr. Schulz published his last Peanuts strip on January 3rd ,2000 before he died on February 12th 2000.
Most valuable cartoon cell: In 1989, a black-and-white drawing from Walt Disney's "Orphan's Benefit" (USA 1934), depicting Donald Duck being punched by an orphan, raised $280,000 at Christie's London, England.
One of the 150,000 color cells from Disney's Snow White (USA 1937) was sold in 1991 for $203,000.
The longest running primetime animated series is the Simpsons, which began in 1987.
The first animated TV cartoon series was called "Crusader Rabbit," which ran from 1949 to 1951.
The most expensive animated film was The Prince of Egypt (USA, 1998), which cost 60 million to make!
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