Scrappy Links
Updated January 2025
The World Wide Web is not, alas, exactly a surging sea of Scrappyana. (And sad to say, some of the sites that existed when Scrappyland first appeared have since vanished.) Here are a few significant destinations that have come to our attention:
Steve Stanchfield’s Thunderbean Thursday
Thunderbean Animation’s Steve Stanchield, a champion of classic animation in general, is a great supporter of Scrappy. He often shares Scrappy cartoons, history, and opinions in his Thunderbean Thursday column at Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research:
- Scrappy in “Yelp Wanted” (1931)
- “Scrappy’s Boy Scouts” (1936)
- “Scrappy’s Camera Troubles” (1937)
- “Scrappy’s Big Moment” (1935)
- Scrappy In “Showing Off” (1931)
- Wrapping the Tom and Jerry set, What’s Next, and “Scrappy’s Television” (1934)
- Scrappy in “The Great Experiment” (1934)
- Scrappy in “Camping Out” (1932)
- Scrappy in “The Concert Kid” (1934)
- Scrappy is not good with babies: “Park your Baby” (1939)
- Scrappy in “Graduation Exercises” (1935)
- Scrappy in “The Dog Snatcher” (1931)
- Scrappy in “The Gold Getters” (1935)
- Scrappy in “The Pet Shop” (1931)
- Scrappy in “The Match Kid” (1933)
- Scrappy in “Minding the Baby” (1931)
- A Foray into Foray – and “Scrappy’s Expedition” (1934)
- Scrappy in “The Battle of the Barn” (1932)
- Scrappy in ‘The Wolf at the Door’ (1932)
- Random Ramblings – and another Scrappy!
- Scrappy Love: “The Bad Genius” (1932)
- Scrappy Had It Right: “Holiday Land”(1934)
- In Honor of Moqui: “Scrappy’s Dog Show”
- A Visit to “Scrappy’s Art Gallery” (1934)
- Scrappy’s Art Gallery, Duracolor and Ted Eshbaugh’s Scrappy?
- Some Thunderbean news, Pooh and “The Great Bird Mystery” (1932)
- The Yearly Redford Theatre Cartoon Show (featuring Fleischer Restorations) and “The Great Experiment” (1934)
- The Millionaire Hobo (1939)
Huemer.com’s Dick Huemer pages
An excellent site run by the family of Scrappy’s creator, with information and art.
And This Blog, For Inexplicable Reasons, Loves the Charles Mintz Studio
This 2016 essay by the patron saint of Scrappy research, Paul Etcheverry, is so ambitious it has a part two.
Ghosts of the Charles Mintz Studio
Joe Campana’s wonderful Animation–Who & Where blog pays a visit to the building that once housed the cartoon studio where Scrappy lived.
The Big Cartoon Database’s Scrappy pages
An attempt to compile a database of Scrappy film facts; unfortunately, it reads like it was put together by someone who hasn’t actually seen any Scrappy cartoons.
David Gerstein’s The Cartoon Pop Music Page
Scroll down for an amusing and perceptive analysis of the Scrappy cartoon Showing Off, and the chance to see a snippet of it in streaming video.
The UPA Legacy Project
All about the post-Scrappy world of Columbia animation.
Uncle John’s Crazy Town
A nifty old-cartoon blog that has covered Scrappy repeatedly
Eisner/Iger au Francais
Comics historian Ken Quattro looks at a 1930s French publication which, among other things, featured Scrappy comics
And here are a few links to mentions of this very site:
Mark Evanier gives us a nice plug
So does Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew
A MetaFilter discussion that has us blushing
Gena’s Out On the Stoop also likes us
Let the record show that in October 2009, I earned my measure of fame as a Scrappyologist by guesting on Harry Rinker’s Whatcha Got, a radio show about collectibles. Tragically, my segment seems to have disappeared from the internet.