Joe Yule, Jr.) adopted the professional name Mickey McGuire for a time before finally settling on the last name Rooney. The first of three Van Beuren Studios Rainbow Parade animated cartoons adapted from the syndicated panels was released by RKO Radio Pictures on January 17, 1936. Some of those became available on laserdisc in 1994 and later, on DVD from Image Entertainment in 1999. Katrinka was animated by Joseph Barbera. A Toonerville Trolley cartoon, "Lost and Found", was included in Simple Gifts, a Christmas collection of six animated shorts shown on PBS TV in 1977. Over the years, various Toonerville characters acted as spokesmen for popular products of the day. Skipper, Flem Proddy and Katrinka appeared throughout the decades in advertisements for Drano, Kellogg's cereals and Chef Boyardee foods. Reprints Between 1934 and 1940, comic book reprints of the panel appeared in many issues of All-American Comics, Famous Funnies, and Popular Comics. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative United States postage stamps. In 1972, Herb Galewitz and Don Winslow compiled Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley, a 184-page book of daily panels, for Weathervane Books, an imprint of Charles Scribner's Sons. Theatrical cartoon shorts Three Toonerville cartoons were produced by Van Beuren Studios in 1936 as part of the Rainbow Parade series. In popular usage "Toonerville Trolley" has been used as a nickname for various specific trolleys in towns and cities across the United States and Canada. The trolley that took tourists from the nearest town to the Seattle City Light hydroelectric project on the Skagit River in Washington State in the early years of the project (~1920-1938) was called the "Toonerville Trolley". The 1933 musical revue As Thousands Cheer featured the Toonerville Trolley in a number called 'The Funnies' honoring comic strip characters. Stephen King had a character in Pet Sematary refer to a drug trip on Tuinals as a ride on the "Toonerville Trolley". In William Gass' Middle C, the main character lists some of the kinds of people he doesn't like, including "the nutsy fagans and other detrolleyed toonervilles". Toonerville was mentioned by an onlooker in the Emergency! episode "Parade" in reference to an impromptu rescue with a vintage fire engine. A Toonerville Trolley toy is shown briefly in Rintaro's segment in the 1987 anime anthology Neo Tokyo. The powerful Katrinka appeared in Gasoline Alley on November 6,