| rdfs:comment | - Description One of the earliest Merrie Melodies Character Pairs, appearing similar in appearance to early Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. Foxy was the creation of Rudolph Ising in 1931 and appeared in 3 animated shorts. Some have called Foxy a flat off ripoff of Mickey Mouse, however Mickey Mouse was still not well known at the time. His girlfriend is known as Roxy. The pair went into obscurity and would not be heard from again until 1992 when they would appear with Goopy Gear in a episode of Tiny Toons
- Foxy is one of many early cartoon characters modeled after the successes of Paul Terry's and Otto Messmer's work in the 1910s and 1920s. Foxy himself is a close cousin to Disney's characters, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927) and Mickey Mouse (1928). His body is just like Mickey Mouse but a little different. Similarly, his female companion, later called "Roxy," is very similar to Minnie Mouse.
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| abstract | - Foxy is one of many early cartoon characters modeled after the successes of Paul Terry's and Otto Messmer's work in the 1910s and 1920s. Foxy himself is a close cousin to Disney's characters, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927) and Mickey Mouse (1928). His body is just like Mickey Mouse but a little different. Similarly, his female companion, later called "Roxy," is very similar to Minnie Mouse. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew images of mice on a portrait of Walt Disney. Disney and Ub Iwerks would then use the portrait as the basis for their creation of Mickey Mouse; the character who eventually became Disney's most popular. Knowing that Disney and Iwerks had capitalized on their idea, Harman and Ising figured it was only fair that they should conceive a character based on a similar mold, thus leading to the birth of Foxy.
- Description One of the earliest Merrie Melodies Character Pairs, appearing similar in appearance to early Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. Foxy was the creation of Rudolph Ising in 1931 and appeared in 3 animated shorts. Some have called Foxy a flat off ripoff of Mickey Mouse, however Mickey Mouse was still not well known at the time. His girlfriend is known as Roxy. The pair went into obscurity and would not be heard from again until 1992 when they would appear with Goopy Gear in a episode of Tiny Toons
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