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Creator of TV cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle dies
Associated Press
CARMEL, Calif. (AP) -- Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr. - who created Rocky the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle the moose and Dudley Do-Right the Canadian mountie - has died at age 90.
Anderson's wife, Patricia, told The Associated Press that her husband, a longtime resident of Pebble Beach, Calif., died Friday at an assisted living facility in Carmel. He was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
With the goggle-wearing Rocky leading his somewhat slow but good-natured friend, Bullwinkle, the duo battled villains Boris and Natasha, agents of the nation of Pottsylvania, in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minn.
The show spawned movies and memorable phrases, such as Rocky's "Hokey smoke" and Bullwinkle's "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat."
The inspiration for Bullwinkle came from a dream Anderson had in which he was playing poker with friends and a moose doing "silly card things" was sitting next to him, Patricia Anderson said.
The character's name came from a car dealership in Berkeley called "Bullwinkel Motors," which her husband thought was funny, she said.
Anderson told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1991 that he found there was "something majestic" about a moose.
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Associated Press
CARMEL, Calif. (AP) -- Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr. - who created Rocky the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle the moose and Dudley Do-Right the Canadian mountie - has died at age 90.
Anderson's wife, Patricia, told The Associated Press that her husband, a longtime resident of Pebble Beach, Calif., died Friday at an assisted living facility in Carmel. He was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
With the goggle-wearing Rocky leading his somewhat slow but good-natured friend, Bullwinkle, the duo battled villains Boris and Natasha, agents of the nation of Pottsylvania, in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minn.
The show spawned movies and memorable phrases, such as Rocky's "Hokey smoke" and Bullwinkle's "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat."
The inspiration for Bullwinkle came from a dream Anderson had in which he was playing poker with friends and a moose doing "silly card things" was sitting next to him, Patricia Anderson said.
The character's name came from a car dealership in Berkeley called "Bullwinkel Motors," which her husband thought was funny, she said.
Anderson told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1991 that he found there was "something majestic" about a moose.
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