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[6] [7] He signed his comic strip "Tish Tash", and used the same name for his cartoon credits (at the time it was considered extremely unprofessional to use anything except one's birth name among animators, but Tashlin was able to get away with this due to the anti-Germanic feelings of that era). [8]
After all, Tashlin signed under a pseudonym, "Tish-Tash". Some episodes of 'Van Boring' were presented as newspaper pages. Samples from The Oakland Tribune (21 September 1935) and the Los Angeles Times (25 January 1936). Terrytoons Tashlin combined his newspaper comic strip 'Van Boring' with a day-time job as animator.
Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known by his nicknames as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator and filmmaker known for his work on the the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of theatrical cartoons, and his later career as a director of live-action comedy films.
Mar 5, 2015 · Why are Tashlin’s movies so packed with visual gags? Because he used to work at “Termite Terrace,” directing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. But while Tashlin’s background in cartoons is something even most casual cinephiles know, those same cinephiles typically have trouble naming some of those cartoons.
Tashlin was the creator, as "Tish Tash," of a short-lived (1934-36) Los Angeles Times Syndicate feature, "Van Boring (He Never Says a Word)," which was sometimes a single panel, sometimes a true comic strip made up of three or four panels.
Long before mistaken-identity cartoons like Chuck Jones’ Forward March Hare (1952) and Jules Feffeir/Gene Deitch’s Munro (1960), was Frank Tashlin’s 1946 book The Bear That Wasn’t. Tashlin has inferred that the book was written as a reaction to his experience at Disney in the late 30s.
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Dec 2, 2003 · In April 1933, Tashlin met Leon Schlesinger, producer of Warner Brothers’ “Looney Tunes” and “Merrie Melodies” cartoons. He accepted the job that Schlesinger offered and moved to Los Angeles to join the other young, innovative animators at the fabled “Termite Terrace” building.
