Draw,Lose, and Win

Max Feischer—creator of Betty Boop and one of the fathers of cartoon animation—gets an ardent tribute from his human offspring in Out of the lnkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution (University Press of Kentucky), due to hit shelves this month. Richard Fleischer. director month. Richard Fleischer, director A of 20,000 Leagues Under fhe Sea,charts the life of his dad, who animated Popeye and Superman as well as Ms. Boop, and seemed destined to trump Walt Disney in the annals of § animation history before suffering a Miramax-like rift with Paramount Pictures in 1941. Like all good cartoons, the story ends happily: the N animator regained the rights to Betty Boop in 1959.

KATHRYN BELGIORNO