Toonerville Folks
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Toonerville Folks (sometimes known as Toonerville Trolley) was a comic strip by Fontaine Fox which ran from 1908 to 1955.
The single panel cartoon was a daily look at Toonerville, situated in what are now called the suburbs, inspired by Fox's childhood outside Louisville, Kentucky. The focus often was The Toonerville Trolley, driven in a frenzy by the grizzly old Skipper to meet each train arriving in town. Other characters included The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang, The Powerful Katrinka, Little Woo-Woo Wortle, Aunt Eppie Hogg, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire, the town bully.
In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative US postage stamps.
A series of over 50 silent film shorts based on the strip featured Mickey Rooney as Mickey (Himself) McGuire. Rooney (who was born Joe Yule, Jr.) adopted the name Mickey McGuire for a time, until he took the last name Rooney.
External link
- Toonopedia (http://www.toonopedia.com/toonrvil.htm)