Out of the Inkwell Films

Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.

Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.

An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.

Out of the Inkwell Films delivers the song "Margie".

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the ladder for Koko to climb?

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble.

Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge.

The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust.

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a mechanical dancing Dresden doll with whom he falls in love and a couple of automaton musicians. He gets rid of the musicians, but, alas, the projectionist gets oil onto Ko-Ko's soon-to-be bride, melting her.

First, Max, in his pyjamas, gets back up and draws an isolated mountain area and puts Koko on top of a steep mountain. "That will keep you busy for the night," says the real-life somewhat nasty cartoonist to his subject. The cartoon really gets wild from that point with guest appearances from Mutt and Jeff, and other "stars" of the day as Koko experiences one adventure after another from the "Cave Of The Winds" to Goliath chasing him all over.

Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.

Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.

This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer Ko-Ko the Clown. Max is supposedly the guy in charge, and he takes sadistic glee in putting Ko-Ko through various forms of hell, but the clown usually fights back and sometimes gets the best of his Uncle Max. FADEAWAY elevates this charged relationship to new heights (or depths?) of nightmarish surrealism; it's also one of the most enjoyable Inkwell cartoons I've seen to date, packing lots of imaginative, unpredictable twists and turns into an eight minute running time.