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'''Whitman "Whit" Jolley''' was an artist, animator, and director who specialized in cartoons. The studio he founded, Whit Jolley Animation, became the [[Whit Jolley Corporation]] after his death. His work, his likeness and his genetic code are presently the full legal property of the Whit Jolley Corporation.

Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].

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 Whit spent three days in jail under charges ranging from vandalism to petty theft, although he always claimed he had no memory of the events and could not be held responsible. During this fugue state, he had taken buckets of paint from hardware stores and created murals on walls and sidewalks, evidently obsessed with finally getting the images in his head out into the world. He was released, with all charges dropped and his military service commuted, thanks to the intervention of wealthy tycoon [[Octavius Banks]]. Banks, keen on exploiting Hollywood and its residents for financial gain, recognized Whit Jolley's psychosis for what it was: the mark of an [[animator]], a newly discovered condition connected with Hollywood's [[toon]]s. He offered Jolley a position at his new venture, a studio by the name of [[Sovereign Pictures]].
-Jolley worked with a small team of animators, including [[Rutherford Bartlett|Bartlett]] and [[Mehmet Wernick|Wernick]] who would go on to become longtime colleagues. Their task was to create toons for Sovereign's flagship cartoon project, the [[Laffographs]]. It was during these early years that Jolley saw the potential for toons, believing that they could do more than just singing and dancing for people's amusement. But his ideas for "toon dramaticals" were rejected by Banks, who believed that both toons and filmgoing audiences lacked the capacity for complex human emotions.
+Jolley worked with a small team of animators, including [[Rutherford Bartlett|Bartlett]] and [[Mehmet Wernick|Wernick]] who would go on to become longtime colleagues. Their task was to create toons for Sovereign's flagship cartoon project, the [[Laffographs]] (1922). It was during these early years that Jolley saw the potential for toons, believing that they could do more than just singing and dancing for people's amusement. But his ideas for "toon dramaticals" were rejected by Banks, who believed that both toons and filmgoing audiences lacked the capacity for complex human emotions.
 ===Split from Sovereign===

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-'''Whitman "Whit" Jolley''' (112 BBO—22 BBO) was an artist, [[animator]], and director who specialized in cartoons. The studio he founded, Whit Jolley Animation, became the [[Whit Jolley Corporation]] after his death. His work, his likeness and his genetic code are presently the full legal property of the Whit Jolley Corporation.
+'''Whitman "Whit" Tobias Jolley''' (December 31 1899 — December 31 1975) was an artist, [[animator]], and director who founded [[Whit Jolley Animation]], a film studio specializing in all-[[toon]] productions. His most well-known collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a toon feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. From humble beginnings he rose to become one of the titans of [[Hollywood]], having shaped the industry and the world with his actions.
-Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].
+== Appearance ==
-== Appearance ==
+Whit did not do well in his accounting career, often reprimanded for sleeping on the job and leaving fanciful drawings in the margins of ledgers. A succession of family doctors diagnosed him with a number of ailments, based on the limited understanding of the pre-Hollywood era, including scurvy of the brain humors, possession by evil spirits, and incurable stupidity.
-Jolley was well-known for being a tall man with large ears and a gap between his front teeth, by both critics and friends alike. He had unruly dark hair that he kept tamed with pomade whenever he was in the public eye. In his later years he had no noticeable wrinkles except for crows feet, which he attributed to "too much happiness".
+In an uncommon stroke of luck, however, Whit was not deployed to the European front. Instead he was sent to California due to the behest of filmmaker [[Champion D. Melville]], who had petitioned the U.S. military for authentic American soldiers to use in the production of his patriotic epic ''To Death and Glory'' (1918). Exposure to Hollywood, where the creative impulse was recklessly goaded rather than suppressed, was a shock to Whit, who went AWOL on his first day. His whereabouts were unknown for two weeks, until finally he was picked up by police a mere six blocks from what would later be [[Toon Town#Connection with Hollywood|Toon Town]].
-== Personality ==
+Whit spent three days in jail under charges ranging from vandalism to petty theft, although he always claimed he had no memory of the events and could not be held responsible. During this fugue state, he had taken buckets of paint from hardware stores and created murals on walls and sidewalks, evidently obsessed with finally getting the images in his head out into the world. He was released, with all charges dropped and his military service commuted, thanks to the intervention of wealthy tycoon [[Octavius Banks]]. Banks, keen on exploiting Hollywood and its residents for financial gain, recognized Whit Jolley's psychosis for what it was: the mark of an [[animator]], a newly discovered condition connected with Hollywood's [[toon]]s. He offered Jolley a position at his new venture, a studio by the name of [[Sovereign Pictures]].
-Much of Jolley's eccentric personality can be traced back to animator-specific mental health issues that were undiagnosed or unrecognized during his life.
+Jolley worked with a small team of animators, including [[Rutherford Bartlett|Bartlett]] and [[Mehmet Wernick|Wernick]] who would go on to become longtime colleagues. Their task was to create toons for Sovereign's flagship cartoon project, the [[Laffographs]]. It was during these early years that Jolley saw the potential for toons, believing that they could do more than just singing and dancing for people's amusement. But his ideas for "toon dramaticals" were rejected by Banks, who believed that both toons and filmgoing audiences lacked the capacity for complex human emotions.
-== Backstory ==
+===Split from Sovereign===
-Whitman Jolley was born in the small town of White Falls, Wisconsin, the son of a bootmaker. He moved to [[Hollywood]] (then Los Angeles, California) at age 19 for unstated reasons, working as an illustrator for pioneering movie tycoon [[Randolph Witz]]. After a contract dispute, he parted ways and started working freelance out of a tiny one-room apartment that turned out to be adjacent to what would become the [[Toon Town]] crossover.
+==="Jolley's folly"===
 [[Category:Characters|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Humans|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Historical figures|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Animators|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Directors|Jolley, Whit]]

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	Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].		Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].
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		+	== Appearance ==
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		+	Jolley was well-known for being a tall man with large ears and a gap between his front teeth, by both critics and friends alike. He had unruly dark hair that he kept tamed with pomade whenever he was in the public eye. In his later years he had no noticeable wrinkles except for crows feet, which he attributed to "too much happiness".
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		+	== Personality ==
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		+	Much of Jolley's eccentric personality can be traced back to animator-specific mental health issues that were undiagnosed or unrecognized during his life.
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		+	== Backstory ==
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		+	Whitman Jolley was born in the small town of White Falls, Wisconsin, the son of a bootmaker. He moved to [[Hollywood]] (then Los Angeles, California) at age 19 for unstated reasons, working as an illustrator for pioneering movie tycoon [[Randolph Witz]]. After a contract dispute, he parted ways and started working freelance out of a tiny one-room apartment that turned out to be adjacent to what would become the [[Toon Town]] crossover.

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-'''Whitman "Whit" Jolley''' was an artist, [[animator]], and director who specialized in cartoons. The studio he founded, Whit Jolley Animation, became the [[Whit Jolley Corporation]] after his death in 22 BBO. His work, his likeness and his genetic code are presently the full legal property of the Whit Jolley Corporation.
+'''Whitman "Whit" Jolley''' (112 BBO—22 BBO) was an artist, [[animator]], and director who specialized in cartoons. The studio he founded, Whit Jolley Animation, became the [[Whit Jolley Corporation]] after his death. His work, his likeness and his genetic code are presently the full legal property of the Whit Jolley Corporation.
 Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].
 [[Category:Characters|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Humans|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Historical figures|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Animators|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Directors|Jolley, Whit]]

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-'''Whitman "Whit" Jolley''' was an artist, [[animator]], and director who specialized in cartoons. The studio he founded, Whit Jolley Animation, became the [[Whit Jolley Corporation]] after his death. His work, his likeness and his genetic code are presently the full legal property of the Whit Jolley Corporation.
+'''Whitman "Whit" Jolley''' was an artist, [[animator]], and director who specialized in cartoons. The studio he founded, Whit Jolley Animation, became the [[Whit Jolley Corporation]] after his death in 22 BBO. His work, his likeness and his genetic code are presently the full legal property of the Whit Jolley Corporation.
 Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].
 [[Category:Characters|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Humans|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Historical figures|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Animators|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Directors|Jolley, Whit]]

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	Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].		Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].

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	Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].		Jolley's most famous collaborator was [[Tiny Cat]], a [[toon]] feline approximately the size of a mouse, whose misadventures and escapades (mostly relating to his unusual size) delighted audiences for years. However, Jolley's later works included feature-length cartoons, at the time the first of their kind, the success of which helped bring toons much-needed clout in [[Hollywood]].

−	[[Category:Characters\|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Humans\|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:~~Artists~~\|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Directors\|Jolley, Whit]]	+	[[Category:Characters\|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Humans\|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Animators\|Jolley, Whit]][[Category:Directors\|Jolley, Whit]]