Dinky Doodle was a cartoon character created by
Walter Lantz for
Bray Productions in
1924. Dinky was a standard boy character, sporting a flat cap, a striped shirt, and dark shorts. He and his dog Weakheart appeared alongside Lantz himself (as the cartoonist) in a series of short films that combined live-action and animation, similar in style to
Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series, as well as
Walt Disney's
Alice Comedies.
Dinky Doodle enjoyed a degree of popularity among audiences, but was retired from the screen in 1926. He was later (mockingly) mentioned as someone supposedly kidnapped when Angelo mocks Eddie Valiant for working for a toon in the
1988 film
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
A history of the series can be found
here
.
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