Animated memories: At Animation World Magazine, legendary animator Gene Deitch discusses the difficulties in bringing Elzie Segar’s Popeye and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat from the comics page to the TV screen:

"With Krazy Kat, we did at least get to come up with an unambiguous gender. At that time, any hint of a homosexual relationship between Krazy, (who was always referred to as 'he' in the original comic strip), and Ignatz mouse, an obvious male, was a loud no-no. Even in the old strip Krazy always wore a ribbon around his/her neck — whatever that meant — but it did give us the final reasoning. So we declared Krazy a girl cat, and that was that!"