{"id":129,"date":"2006-02-05T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-02-05T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T19:44:15","slug":"rip-myron-waldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/rip-myron-waldman\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Myron Waldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last remaining significant figures of the golden age of American animation is gone&#8211;Myron Waldman has left us, at the age of 97. Mike Dobbs has <a href=\"http:\/\/outoftheinkwell.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/i-received-word-last-night-that.html\">the news and a good career overview<\/a>, covering everything from Waldman&#8217;s Fleischer work&#8211;he started at the studio 76 years ago&#8211;to <em>Eve<\/em>, his pioneering graphic novel.<\/p>\n<p>I met Waldman only briefly, at a Museum of the Moving Image event in Queens about a decade ago. I&#8217;m glad I had the chance. And now I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t berate him for creating Pudgy.<\/p>\n<p>So who&#8217;s left from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s? Joe Barbera and Ollie Johnston&#8230;Stan Freberg, Arnold Stang, and June Foray&#8230;Bill Melendez and Bill Justice come to mind. Who am I forgetting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last remaining significant figures of the golden age of American animation is gone&#8211;Myron Waldman has left us, at the age of 97. Mike Dobbs has the news and a good career overview, covering everything from Waldman&#8217;s Fleischer work&#8211;he started at the studio 76 years ago&#8211;to Eve, his pioneering graphic novel. I met &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/rip-myron-waldman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Myron Waldman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}