Felix the Cat, one of the pioneering funny animals of early cartoons, is returning to comics in a new series to be published by Source Point Press. Felix the Cat #1, by writer Mike Federali and artist Tracy Yardley, will be available in print and digital format in 2022. Yardley is the artist for the Sonic the Hedgehog comics (see “‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Races Back to Comic Shops”) as well as Cosmo the Merry Martian. The Felix comics are part of Source Point Press’s plans to expand its roster of children’s comics.

In the first of the new stories, Felix and his friends Kitty Kat, Roc Bottom, Inky, and Winky get together to celebrate Felix the Cat Day, but Xilef the Extraordinary drops in and steals Felix’s magic bag, refusing to return it until Felix completes three challenges.

Felix the Cat was created in 1919 by animators Pat Sullivan and Otto Mesmer and was hugely popular during the silent film era. He starred in cartoons that came out every other week and often riffed on topics of the time such as Prohibition. While the films did not make the transition to talkies, Felix stayed alive on the page in a syndicated comic strip, which began in 1923, and in Dell comic books starting in 1943, the same year the comic strip ended. The character was revived in the 1950s as a television cartoon and has been flitting in and out of public consciousness ever since, starring in a 1988 movie, a 1992 video game, and a 2000 anime. In 2014, Variety reported that DreamWorks Animation had bought all the rights to Felix but had no plans to develop any film or television projects with the character.

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