(From the Blind Observer)BOISE, ID - Mr. Potato Head died Oct.1 after a long struggle with ear, nose, and throat problems.
For years the head of the American Toy and Cartoon Characters Association, which he founded with his lifelong friends Mr. Peanut, Reddy Kilowatt and Speedy Alkaseltzer, Mr. Potato Head was often seen to be disorganized, but Mr. Peanut, speaking of his friend, said, “He kept things together.”
He is survived by Mrs. Potato Head and their son Spud.
Cap'n Crunch
SAN DIEGO, CA - Cap'n Crunch died Sept. 28 in the Retired Cartoon Seaman's Home here, where Captain Hook and Popeye also spent their last days.
Though Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch never held a military commission, he did have a seagoing background, having captained his ship, The Guppy, over many a cartoon sea since 1963.
His character, a gay 1800-era British sea captain, was widely thought to be the model for Johnny Depp’s acclaimed performance as Captain Jack Sparrow in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean.
After Middleman Media retired his bobble-head doll in 1996, Cap’n Crunch saw the writing on the wall, and retired to the Cartoon Seaman’s Home, where he frequently derided the other residents as mere “Corporate Mascots.”
Mr. ZIP
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mr. ZIP died at Washington Memorial Hospital Sept.23. He no longer had the "zip" he had displayed in earlier years, and had been horribly mangled when, on a public relations visit to U.S. Postal Service headquarters, he became entangled in the Post Office’s automated mail-handling equipment.
Mr. ZIP had carried out his duties through rain and snow and gloom of night since the Kennedy administration, but had made few public appearances since 1986, when he was forced into retirement by a Postal Service hierarchy that considered him an “anachronism.”
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