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Andy Panda is a funny animal cartoon character who starred in his own series of
animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz. These "cartoons"
were released by Universal Pictures from 1939 to 1947 and United Artists from
1948 to 1949. The titular character is an anthropomorphic cartoon character, a
cute panda. In two 1943 cartoons, Andy Panda's Victory Garden and Meatless
Tuesday, Andy's foil was a nameless rooster. In late 1943, this rooster became
Andy's comic book sidekick, Charlie Chicken: "hatched" in NF 79 and rapidly
growing into the cartoon model.
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Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy wuxia film
produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The
story is set in the Valley of Peace, a fictional land in ancient China
inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. Po, a panda, is a kung fu fanatic who
idolizes the Furious Five -Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper, and Crane - a quintet
of kung fu masters trained by the red panda Shifu. Helping his goose father
Mr. Ping in his noodle restaurant, Po has been unable to achieve his dream of
becoming a kung fu master himself.
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