Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Ralph Bakshi/archive6

Crumb didn't want to sell fritz the cat to bakshi. That much all accounts agree on. All accounts also agree that Bakshi was desperate; his career was on the ropes. He apparently was nearly begging. But then this book: [The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History By Robert C. Harvey Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1996 page 200]

...says that Crumb's wife had power of attorney; Bakshi did an end-around and persuaded Crumb's wife to let them make the movie. Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 08:38, 24 February 2009 (UTC)\[reply]

I don't think that is what the sources agree on. From what I can tell, Crumb signed over the rights and later lied about it because the writer's guild guidelines didn't allow him to credit himself as the sole writer, being that he only wrote the comic books, and not the screenplay. Many news publications took a bias towards Crumb and never mention the fact that he was paid more than Bakshi, and that Bakshi never received money from Krantz for that film or for Heavy Traffic. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 08:44, 24 February 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Unmelting Images: Film, Television, and Ethnic Stereotyping,James Craig Holte. MELUS, Vol. 11, No. 3, Ethnic Images in Popular Genres and Media (Autumn, 1984), pp. 101-108. "The most sophisticated treatment of ethnicity in the popular media is... Ralph Bakshi's American Pop". More stuff, but probably not needed. Good quote though. Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 08:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- same guy: Ethnicity and the Popular Imagination: Ralph Bakshi and the American Dream. James Craig Holte. MELUS, Vol. 8, No. 4, The Ethnic American Dream (Winter, 1981), pp. 105-113. Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 08:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I can't establish anything from brief mentions in a book that is only available in snippets on Google, such as whether or not it contains any noteworthy information. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 08:57, 24 February 2009 (UTC))[reply]