McCrory Studios Inc. In 1926, John Robert McCrory, an author and World War I soldier turned animator, formed his own animation studio based in New York after gaining experienced from Bray Productions and Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Studio. He reached a deal with Life Magazine to produce a series of shorts featuring his character Mike the Monk, a humanoid monkey character accompanies by his girlfriend. Mike spun off into another series entitled Krazy Kids, which lasted about a year.
McCrory Studios Inc In 1926, John Robert McCrory, an author and World War I soldier turned animator, formed his own animation studio based in New York after gaining experienced from Bray Productions and Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Studio. He reached a deal with Life Magazine to produce a series of shorts featuring his character Mike the Monk, a humanoid monkey character accompanies by his girlfriend. Mike spun off into another series entitled Krazy Kids, which lasted about a year.