| MegaManX said: Looney Tunes, argument over. The historical impact of that alone in animation trumps anything out of Japan then or now. Flintstones, Jetsons, He-Man, The Simpsons, Family Guy, GIJoe, Transformers, all the various Looney Tunes characters (Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig) Tiny Toons Adventures, Tom and Jerry, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Micky Mouse, Popeye, Betty Boop, X-Men, Spider-Man, Superman, Batman Animated Series, Pirates of Dark Water, Droopy, Scooby Doo, Felix the Cat, Woody Woodpecker, Inspector Gadget, Yogi Bear, Ren and Stimpy, Smurfs, Jonny Quest, Donald Duck, Wacky Races, Ducktales, Gargoyles, Chip and Dale, Winnie the Pooh, Thundercats, Spongebob, Garfield, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, South Park. Damn, that's just a a primer, how influential are all these cartoons. Not to mention Disney animated movies from Snow White up to Lion King! |
Well...................I would agree with you up to a point. But if you're going to make a post referring to the Golden Age of animation, and posit that you know what you're talking about, you have to also mention Disney and MGM, as well as Fleicher Studios via Paramount, etc. Warner Bros.' early work was amazing, but so was the pioneering stuff from Walt Disney and Max Fleicher. So were the early works like Tom & Jerry and Droopy, etc., from MGM.
As for you list......well, problem is, many of those cartoons you mention were drawn outside of the US, such as Transformers, GI Joe, The Real Ghostbusters, Batman, X-Men, Spider-Man, Inspector Gadget, Thundercats (was literally done by some of the folks that would be come Studio Ghibli), etc. Almost all DiC cartoons were animated outside of the US, as were most Marvel and DC cartoons. and honestly a hell of a lot of popular 80s cartoons. Major exceptions were Hannah-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and Filmation, who did He-Man and She-Ra.
