Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936),... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Educated Fish (1937), Hunky and Spunky (1938), and Superman (1941). The son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor (sources conflict on whether he was born in Vienna or Krakow, Poland), he was brought to the United States at age four and raised in Manhattan and... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Educated Fish (1937), Hunky and Spunky (1938), and Superman (1941). The son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor (sources conflict on whether he was born in Vienna or Krakow, Poland), he was brought to the United States at age four and raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. He studied to be a mechanic before becoming a cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and then ar... Read full biography
Max Fleischer - Artist Info
About Max Fleischer: Books
Books & Publications (7)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics
2007
Furniss, Maureen
276 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Animation, Caricature...Cartoons in the U S A and Canada/A Bibliography