DreamWorks Animation has bought the rights to the 95-year-old feline cartoon icon Felix the Cat. The studio acquired the character by paying an undisclosed sum to Don Oriolo, whose father Joe helped ...

LAFAYETTE -- A new store at Olde Lafayette Village is devoted to the wide-eyed, big-grinned Felix the Cat, who has made his way from the era of silent films into a modern-day iconic cartoon character.

If alternate universes do exist, there is probably one where the dominant cartoon animal (assuming they all have one) is not a mouse named Mickey, but a cat named Felix. And in this alternate universe ...

DreamWorks Animation has acquired all rights to Felix the Cat, the feline cartoon from the silent film era, DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said during a speech at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. A ...

Felix the Cat reigned over the silver screen years before he found his way to a Figueroa Street car dealership. Created in 1919 by artist Otto Messmer, the animated cartoon character even predated ...

-In 1954, Otto Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost) took over. Oriolo struck a deal with Felix’s new owner ...

Tommy José Stathes might have the largest collection of vintage animated films in the world stuffed into a storage unit in Queens. Credit...Gabby Jones for The New York Times Supported by By Paige ...