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Otto Messmer
Felix The Cat (1925)
Distributed by the King Features Syndicate
“Felix came more from a child than a cat. When I was 5. I wondered about a lot of things. I wondered where the thunder and wind came from, and what was on the ocean’s bottom. Felix was like an ambassador. I did everything that was impossible.”
—Otto Messmer, interviewed in The New York Times in 1976