Andy Panda – Anonymous character from the golden age of cartoons and comics

When you mention Andy Panda, a lot of people respond, “Who?” However, there was a time when the bear was a major player in the cartoon world. He’s a character from the Golden Age of animation, and a great one too.

Andy was created by the legendary Walter Lantz, the same creator of the famous Woody Woodpecker. In fact, Woody first appeared in an Andy Panda cartoon. But let’s get back to the little-known Panda.

Andy was quite popular in the 1940s. His first cartoon was Life begins for Andy Panda in 1939. He starred in several cartoons in the 1940s and had his own comic strip on New Funnies comics from the 1940s to the 1960s. He even had his own comic series in the 1970s. One thing I loved about comics is that he had a partner named Charlie Chicken. To me, they were a bit like Abbott and Costello.

I always liked Andy and Woody cartoons as a kid, and they were repeated continuously in the 1970s and 1980s. I have fond memories of watching Andy Panda cartoons from the 1940s before and after school. My favorite cartoon is Apple andy. In the cartoon, Andy fights with the good and bad sides of himself. The good side is a panda that looks like an angel. The bad side is, you guessed it, a panda that looks like the devil.

In the cartoon, the bad side convinces Andy to skip school and steal apples from a farmer. He eats so many apples that he passes out and dreams that he is going to hell. In the end he wakes up, overcomes his bad side and goes back to school. Yes, some of the early cartoons were creepy and funny at the same time. I’m glad they were still shown on television in the 1980s.

However, Andy is not completely lost in limbo. Recently, DVD sets of the old Woody Woodpecker and Andy Panda cartoons were released. You can’t suppress a good character forever!

If you remember Andy, feel free to comment! I would like to hear your memories.