The Japanese company Sanrio created Hello Kitty, whose full name is Kitty White, in 1974 ... The post Is Hello Kitty a Cat?

Cats are full of personality and provide constant amusement. It makes perfect sense, then, that they've inspired many an iconic cartoon character. For practically as long as cartoons have been ...

Before we toast Kitty White’s 50th ... Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat,” said Yano.

It’s 50 years since the creation of one of the world’s most recognisable characters, Hello Kitty. In 1974, a 24-year-old ...

Bill Nolan, who animated Felix the Cat in the early 1900s ... animators in the age of fuzzy black and white film. Yes, simplifying the features of characters made the process easier and faster.

Yuko Shimizu, the Sanrio employee who created Hello Kitty, told BBC that her design for the character was "a white cat with a red bow in its hair." She added how the inspiration behind the ...