Pat Sullivan’s Cartoons Score (1916) 🇺🇸
Pat Sullivan, cartoonist, creator of black-faced Sambo of newspaper fame, has fashioned a number of animated cartoons for Universal, which have excited much favorable comment.
All of these split-reel subjects have to do with the adventures of Sammie Jonsin, the character created by Mr. Sullivan, when he was connected with the McClure Syndicate.
The artist believes that drawing for reproduction on the screen is totally apart from the older profession. He has no patents and no exclusive method. Supplementing his knowledge of cartooning is just plain hard work and a fertile imagination, together with an insight into the technique and tricks of the motion picture camera.
Prominent on Mr. Sullivan’s staff is Arthur T. Crichton, a cartoonist formerly employed on several metropolitan dailies. Mildred Walker is another artist whose work Mr. Sullivan is exploiting. The first of her animated drawings will appear shortly.
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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1916
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