In 1916, William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, set up a studio to produce animated cartoons based on his paper's strips and hired Barre's best animators. In 1915, Sullivan was fired by Barre for general incompetence. When Marriner died in 1914, Sullivan joined the new animated cartoon studio set up by Raoul Barré. He worked as assistant to newspaper cartoonist William Marriner and drew four strips of his own. Īround 1909, Sullivan left Australia and spent a few months in London, England, before moving to the United States around 1910. Sullivan was born in Paddington, New South Wales, the second son of Patrick Sullivan, an immigrant from Ireland and his Sydney-born wife Margaret, née Hayes. Patrick Peter Sullivan (22 February 1885 – 15 February 1933) was an Australian-American cartoonist, pioneer animator, and film producer best known for producing the first Felix the Cat silent cartoons.
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