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''Animal Crackers'' is the title of several syndicated newspaper comics over the years. The first was a 1930 comic strip signed by an artist known simply as Lane. The second ''Animal Crackers'' was a cartoon panel by Dick Ryan and Warren Goodrich (1913–2002) that was published intermittently from 1937 through 1957. In some papers it ran as ''Animal Krackers''. Goodrich recalled, "I used animals to relate human foibles with a little twist. Sometimes it would work, and sometimes it wouldn't. It seems the funny things are just short of tragic."〔(Kennedy, Natalie. "Talent, humor lead Travelin Man down road of success," "The Wellsboro Gazette and Free Press-Courier'', March 25, 1992. )〕 The third began in 1967 and continues today, distributed by Andrews McMeel Publishing's GoComics, which is run by Universal Press Syndicate. Rog Bollen drew the strip through 1994, and then Fred Wagner took over. It features a group of animals who live in a fictional jungle called Freeborn. This strip was adapted into a cartoon television series in 1997. ==History== ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' described ''Animal Crackers'' as a "snappy little one-frame strip () featured a variety of animal life dealing with various silly situations of a human nature" and as a comic panel "which went on to acclaim in syndication."〔Adolphson, Sue (August 23, 1992). "The Golden Boy: The Chronicle's Little Man Turns 50". ''The San Francisco Chronicle''. Sunday Datebook, Pg. 18〕 The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' printed the comic panel on its front page next to the weather report.〔(January 30, 2002). "(Warren Goodrich, co-founder of the ''Los Altos Town Crier'', dies at 88 )". ''Los Altos Town Crier''.〕 ''Animal Crackers'' was syndicated by the ''Chicago Sun-Times''〔 to over 100 papers.〔(Cloutman, Elizabeth. "Does the name Warren Goodrich ring a bell?" ''Los Altos Town Crier'', November 14, 2001. )〕 In later years, Goodrich drew a spin-off cartoon series, ''Creatures'', collected in the book ''Creatures Or Not So Dumb Animals'' (Eden East Press, 2001). Although Goodrich drew his animal cartoons for years and then wrote newspaper columns ("Travelin' Man") and several books (''An Artist's Life''), his lasting fame came with a single drawing, "The Little Man," which he drew in 1942. Used alongside ''San Francisco Chronicle'' film reviews as a movie rating system, this Goodrich device was praised by Roger Ebert,〔(Ebert, Roger. "You give out too many stars," ''Chicago Sun-Times'', September 14, 2008. )〕 Gerald Nachman,〔("LIttle Man's blush is back," by Gerald Nachman, ''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 16, 2003. )〕 Austin Kleon,〔(Kleon, Austin. "The Little Man," Austin Kleon Blog, September 19, 2008. )〕 and other writers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Animal Crackers (comic strip)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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