Oswald & Homer, two rare cartoon characters reunited!

Hello friends, I hope that you are doing well. As you can tell there have been a lot of Disney posts this month. So I’m going to keep it up, and post a rare character illustration. As you may know I’m a huge fan of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This was the character that Walt Disney created, and unfortunately lost the rights to. It took more than 70 years for the Disney company to get the rights back. I was wondering what it would happen if the studio got the rights to Oswald side characters. One of them was a little rascal named Homer.

The tiny cat first appeared in the cartoon Homeless Homer. It was a 1929 film by animators Friz Freleng, and Rudolf Ising for Winkler / Universal. A few years later Freeing, and Ising would become some of the best animators for Warner Bros. In the cartoon Oswald tried to take in the tiny orphan, but ended up fighting with the brat instead. The character would turn up in the comics a few more times, and become retconned as the little brother of Ortensia, Oswald’s girlfriend. In each appearance he was a thorn in the side of the rabbit.

I wondered out loud what it might look like if Homer was pulled into the Disney family. It shouldn’t be very difficult as he is now a public domain character. It would be great to see him start causing trouble again. So I drew up this poster. Are there any classic cartoon character that you want to see come back in animation, or even game form? Tell me about it in the comments section. As always if you enjoyed this blog, and would like to sponsor me please visit my Patreon page and consider donating each month, even as little as $1 would help make better blogs and even podcasts!