Out of the Inkwell Films

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

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

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

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.

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

Ko-Ko and Fitz find that everything in their cartoon world is moving backwards. After entering the real world, they go inside a clock and move the hands backward, causing life all around the city to run in reverse.

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

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.

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.

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.

Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.

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

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

A Dave Fleischer Cartoon

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?

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

Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a pond before he goes.

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.

Max and Koko get mixed up with a live action gypsy fortune teller and then caught up with ghosts and monsters in this, as usual, delightful OUT OF THE INKWELL offering.