 Lil' Eightball, as seen in "A Haunting We Will Go" (art by Walter Lantz Studios). | |
| Character information | |
|---|---|
| first app.: | "The Stubborn Mule" (1939) |
| last app.: | "A Haunting We Will Go" (1939) |
| created by: | Burt Gillett & Walt Lantz |
Lil' Eightball is a Walter Lantz character voiced by Mel Blanc, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "The Stubborn Mule" in 1939.[1] His final appearance was in 1939, in "A Haunting We Will Go". He is a racially offensive caricature of an African-American child.
"A Haunting We Will Go" is the first Walter Lantz cartoon made in three-strip Technicolor. From this point onward, all of the Lantz cartoons would be produced in color.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 98. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.