Anyway, Panthro was the black Thundercat. We’ll also take this time to throw in a shoutout to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ Shredder, who was voiced by The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ‘s James Avery, better known as Uncle Phil, for the cartoon’s first seven seasons. Namely because he was voiced by Earle Hyman, whom you probably remember for his role on The Cosby Show as Cosby’s dad, Russell Huxtable. Panthro - ThunderCatsĪside from the steoreotypical wide nose and his blue skin, Panthro was clearly black. Uncle Ruckus, Thugnificent and Tom DuBois cover a spectrum of personalities that perfectly describes the complexity of blackness, but the Freeman family was the foundation on which the entire program hinged and thrived. There are a plethora of characters from this program that represent so many different parts of black life. Granddad’s voice is that of actor John Witherspoon. Huey and Riley are both voiced by actress Regina King. From a comic strip to a television series, The Boondocks, created by Aaron McGruder, was an instant hit in 2005.
As my colleague Clinton Yates says, you absolutely cannot have the conversation about black males in animation without including these three. Huey, Riley and Granddad set the mold for modern-day cartoon characters. Although there are more, this is what we came up with. But most boys my age were so engrossed in the cartoon that they had me convinced the Brown Hornet was real.īesides the characters from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, here are 13 others who made The Undefeated’s list of the top black men in animated cartoons. My favorite character was Rudy, and that’s because I was digging his apple-jack newsboy hat. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, a series that aired from 1972-1985, was created, produced and voiced by Cosby. Comedian Bill Cosby brought us a pretty cool cartoon. In the 1970s, black males in animation (again excluding the massive comic era) started to rise.
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