Comments on: Rocky and Bullwinkle creator Alexander Anderson dies

By: Jerry Zee

Jerry Zee — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:15:47 +0000

Makes me think a little less of Jay Ward who didn’t acknowledge Alex.

By: Charles Brubaker

Charles Brubaker — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:45:26 +0000

Steve,

Just a note that while Alex Anderson did develop Rocky & Bullwinkle (the same time as Crusader Rabbit), by the time the show aired Anderson had left the animation business. Which probably accounts for Jay Ward taking all the credit.

While were at it, Mr. Peabody and Sherman was created by Ted Key of “Hazel” fame; again, Ward took credit.

By: Charles Brubaker

Charles Brubaker — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:42:12 +0000

And of course he pretty much started the TV cartoon business with Jay Ward.

By: Steve Greenberg

Steve Greenberg — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:39:37 +0000

Alex, a nice guy whom I met once, was the real creative force behind the empire that Jay Ward seemed to take all the credit for. Not that Jay Ward didn’t do a good job with the properties, but (like Walt Disney) everything related to it seemed to be credited to him, with the cartoonist sort of lost in obscurity.