NEW YORK (AP) — Animator Myron Waldman, who in his long career originated Betty Boop's sidekick, helped create two Oscar-nominated cartoons and put Superman and Raggedy Ann on the screen, has died at 97, his family said Monday.
Waldman died Saturday of congestive heart failure at New Island Hospital in Bethpage, said Rosalie Waldman, his wife of 57 years.
Waldman was instrumental in the animation of Betty Boop, Popeye, Casper, Raggedy Ann and Andy, and the original Superman cartoon series, said Jerry Gladstone, president of American Royal Arts of Boca Raton, Fla., which represented Waldman's work.