Great website! Informative and interesting. Amazing and well-explained content. A good example for websites of the same area.

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This is great site .I am so happy to learn and to know about a wonderful artist and his art works.I am sure Mr Levitow influenced our life in Iraq ...Iraqi always love American animation .

I write a film review column for The Easton Irregular, a local arts paper & am doing a piece about Darrell's Christmas Carol book. I will try to attend the Dec. 1 screening where perhaps I'll get a chance to chat with you. Your father's legacy obviously extends beyond Magoo, but what a wonderful feather in his cap that holiday special is for all of you. Thanks for sharing his talent with the rest of the world. Best wishes,
Joe R. Frinzi

יישר כוחכם.
I never had the privilege of knowing your father personally--how I wish I had, but over the years have heard so much about him that I consider myself his nephew.
Love,
Marc

Hi, Judy...one of our mutual friends has been publishing stuff about Abe a lot on Facebook... soo wonderful! Thank you for this really cool site!!!

hi roberta,judy and jon

today my 8year old son and i were watching your dads movie Milo
on turner classic movies
this cartoon movie has lots of valuable messages and lessons for
young children.

nate bronfeld

Thank you so much for sharing this site with me. What a truly lovely tribute to Abe.

The Other Roberta

What a pleasant surprise to finally see Abe getting the recognition he so richly deserves. I can't help thinking how proud "Sorchie &Willie" would be.
We still have 2 original drawings of "Mr. Magoo & Bugs Bunny", drawn on blank notebook paper framed hanging in our den. Abe drew those cartoon characters for our eldest son Victor, who is very artistically talented. I also still have a birthday card drawn by Abe for my 9th Birthday. Needless to say I was especially thrilled at the time to have my older cousin draw a special card for me.
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I was in California in 1975 specifically to try to meet my animation heroes. Through extensive correspondence, I knew Carl Bell who worked for Abe Levitow at Levitow Hanson Films, and he was trying to arrange for my meeting Mr. Levitow. One morning in May, in a call to my hotel, Carl told me the terrible news that Abe had died. Needless to say I was shocked and saddened by this terrible news.
Abe Levitow was an impressive artist and a very gifted animator as this site is testament to. I particularly enjoyed his wonderful Daffy Duck and Porky animation in "Robin Hood Daffy" in which the two characters are depicted in fits of laughter. I also loved his cover for the "Bugs Bunny and his Friends" LP record from the early 1960's which featured the Warner characters singing around a piano that Bugs was playing.

I only met Abe a couple times, once when he reacted to my reel ; "It's like being run over by a beautiful train". I guess it needed some editing, or at least some space between pieces. But it gave me the in to sit with one of the finest guys I have yet to meet. If I remember right he had just finished, or was working on a B.C. special.n The world sure could use another Abe Levitow again.

I worked with Abe on "Mr.Magoo's Christmas Carol" and "Gay Puree". He was a wonderful, kind, and generous person, always available to give you positive feedback and to inspire your creativity. Abe gave me my first animation lessons in the evenings after work on his own time , and taught me animation "timing" which lead to my work as an animation director. Thank you for putting up this site so aspiring animators can share the love of animation as Abe did.

Thanks for the tremendous site. I really enjoy Mr Levitow's work; some great cartoons.

Talent of this caliber never grows old, it continues to inspire.
Thank You for this.

What a great site! I have extremel fond memories of The Dick Tracy Show and Mr. Magoo, and it was a pleasure to finally see some of Off To See The Wizard, a show I had previously only heard about. God bless you and your family!

Awsome cousin Abe!

Jon,

You were right, this is a great tribute to your father. Congratulations to you and your sisters.

Keith

What a wonderful site and tribute to Mr. Levitow and his extraordinary work. His animation has given me so many smiles and laughs in my life. Thank you to Abe Levitow's children for creating this site. Your dad was one of the greats of animation.

Denise

Great Tribute to one of the greatest of all time. Chuck Jones once said that "when you get a good animator in your unit, you want to hold on to them forever because they are so few and far between". Your father will not soon be forgotten and now a new generation can put a face to the name on the screen. Congratulations and cheers to the mighty Abe!!

Your dad was maybe the greatest of all. He worked on some of the finest cartoons ever made: ONE FROGGY EVENING, WHAT'S OPERA DOC?, HEAVEN SCENT, ALI BABA BUNNY, CLAWS FOR ALARM, to name but a very, very few.

I am a very serious collector of WB vintage animation art - because I am not sensible enough to collect Disney! When I was growing up in a wretched little mining "camp" in Alabama, the brightest spot in my young life was to see the WB cartoon after the 2 mile walk over to the teetering old barn that passed for our "theater." I still remember many of the cartoons from the time that I first saw them and have never really gotten past their strong imprint on me. (Nor do I want to).

I think your dad is the most (unfairly) unsung of them all. Like Jack Kennedy said: "Life isn't fair..."

I wanted to tell you how much I admire your dad's work and that I do believe, over time, he will receive a larger measure of the acclaim that he so richly deserves.

A great source of information, and a fine tribute.