# Artists who parodied their own work **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323 "2022-01-06T14:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323/1 "2022-01-06T14:02:23Z")
I’ll bet most people on the Board won’t recognize **Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse** , which was a made-for-TV cartoon series from 1960. They live in the Cat Cave, travel in the Catmobile and the Catplane, and can be called by the Cat Signal searchlight. Instead of a Utility Belt with lots of gadgets, he has an apparently inexhaustable supply of themed “guns”. It’s very obviously a parody of Batman and Robin. What’s surprising is that it’s by Batman creator Bob Kane (plus Gerald Rappoport) > **[Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courageous_Cat_and_Minute_Mouse)** > > Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, is a 1960 children's cartoon television show, that was produced by Trans-Artists Productions, and syndicated by Tele Features Inc. The characters were originated and created by authors Bob Kane and Gerald J. Rappoport as a spoof of Kane's earlier creations, Batman and Robin. In many ways, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse presages the camp aspects of the later Batman live action series, which William Dozier and Howie Horwitz produced as a villain-driven actio In ... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RAmmT8Ng0mw/hqdefault.jpg "Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse - Volume 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAmmT8Ng0mw) In 1967-8 Marvel comics had **Not Brand Ecch** , which ran parodies of their own superheroes (and DC ones, as well), written and drawn by the usual Marvel staff, often the very ones who wrote and drew the original characters. It ran 13 issues > **[Not Brand Echh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Brand_Echh)** > > Not Brand Echh is a satiric comic book series published by Marvel Comics that parodied its own superhero stories as well as those of other comics publishers. Running for 13 issues (cover-dated Aug. 1967 to May 1969), it included among its contributors such notable writers and artists as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Bill Everett, John and Marie Severin, and Roy Thomas. With issue #9, it became a 68-page, 25¢ "giant", relative to the typical 12¢ comics of the times. In 2017, a 14th issue was r... > **[Not Brand Echh Vol 1](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Not_Brand_Echh_Vol_1)** After writing **The Hobbit** , Tolkien wrote **Farmer Giles of Ham** (although it wasn’t published for another dozen years). It’s been argued that this was a sort-of parody of The Hobbit and adventure tales in general, with Giles a reluctant hero who sort-of defeats a dragon with the aid of a named sword. There are a lot of scholarly in-jokes. I have seen a lot of one-panel or one-page joke and parody strips by comic book artists (there’s a great drawing by one of the Superman artists showing Superman, carrying Clark Kent’s clothes, angrily banging on the door of a phone booth so he can get inside and change, but Alfred E. Neuman refuses to get off the phone), but I’m looking for a long story or sustained series. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323)._