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Image:Cartoonleg.jpg|[[Jasper and Julius]] |
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Image:Christopherclumsy.jpg|[[Christopher Clumsy]] |
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Image:Cartoontwoeyes.jpg|Two ears, two eyes, two arms, and two legs. {{eka|0406}} |
Image:Cartoontwoeyes.jpg|Two ears, two eyes, two arms, and two legs. {{eka|0406}} |
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Frogflycartoon.jpg|What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? {{eka|0406}} |
Frogflycartoon.jpg|What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? {{eka|0406}} |
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Image:2257p.jpg|Dry and Wet (By the Pool) {{eka|0597}} |
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Revision as of 01:43, 18 August 2014
Cliff Roberts, ca. 1950s
Cliff Roberts (1929-1999) was a cartoonist and animator who worked on inserts for Sesame Street as well as the spin-off comic strip and Sesame Street Magazine. Roberts spent much of his early career in New York City as a freelance commercial artist and director. He also worked as a photographer, with work displayed at the 1964 World's Fair, and contributed cartoons to Playboy and The New Yorker. He soon became a popular designer for animation, creating character model sheets for Terrytoons and UPA projects. Roberts' style, reflecting his commercial illustration background, involved flat but appealing forms and a minimal color palette; most of his characters were white blobs with occasional splashes of color.
For Sesame Street, Roberts created Jasper and Julius, two characters who would engage in debates over body parts, as well as Christopher Clumsy. These characters were brought over to Roberts' Sesame Street strip, alongside Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster.
Roberts later worked on the Saturday morning cartoons The Smurfs, Scooby-Doo and The Pink Panther, and illustrated the Langston Hughes book The First Book of Jazz. He retired in 1993.
Sketches
