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The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures.

Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons. Although Tashlin directed no more films in the series (despite playing a supervisory role on the following two shorts, Woodman, Spare That Tree and Toll Bridge Troubles, prior to his departure), Screen Gems continued producing Fox and the Crow shorts, many of them directed by Bob Wickersham, until the studio closed in 1946. Screen Gems had acquired enough of a backlog of completed films that the "Fox and Crow" series continued through 1949. By this time, Columbia had signed a distribution deal with a new animation studio, United Productions of America (UPA), to produce three "Fox and the Crow" shorts, Robin Hoodlum (1948), The Magic Fluke (1949), and Punchy De Leon (1950). All three UPA Fox and the Crow cartoons were directed by John Hubley. The first two each received an Academy Award nomination for Animated Short Subject. An unrelated, six minute, silent animated short titled The Fox and the Crow, produced by Fables Studio, was released in 1921.

In 1943, due to the series success, Columbia gave the Fox and the Crow their own series separate from the Color Rhapsodies; it lasted until 1946. All cartoons from Room and bored (1943) to Mysto fox (1946) belong to this series. FilmDirectionOriginal release dateSeriesThe Fox and the GrapesFrank TashlinDecember 5, 1941Color Rhapsody Woodman, Spare That Tree Bob WickershamJuly 2, 1942Color Rhapsody Toll Bridge TroublesNovember 27, 1942Color Rhapsody Slay It With FlowersJanuary 8, 1943Color Rhapsody Plenty Below ZeroMay 14, 1943Color Rhapsody Tree for TwoJune 21, 1943Color Rhapsody A Hunting We Won't GoAugust 23, 1943Color Rhapsody Room and BoredSeptember 30, 1943Fox and CrowWay Down Yonder in the CornNovember 25, 1943Fox and CrowThe Dream KidsJanuary 5, 1944Fox and CrowMr. MoocherSeptember 8, 1944Fox and CrowBe Patient, PatientOctober 27, 1944Fox and CrowThe Egg YeggDecember 8, 1944Fox and CrowKu Ku NutsMarch 30, 1945Fox and CrowTreasure JestHoward SwiftAugust 30, 1945Fox and CrowPhoney BaloneyBob WickershamSeptember 13, 1945Fox and CrowFoxy FlatfootsApril 11, 1946Fox and CrowUnsure RuntsHoward SwiftMay 16, 1946Fox and Crow Mysto FoxBob WickershamAugust 29, 1946Fox and CrowTooth or ConsequencesHoward SwiftJune 5, 1947PhantasyGrape NuttyAlex LovyApril 14, 1949Color Rhapsody

The Fox and the Crow starred in several talking animal comic books published by DC Comics, from the 1940s well into the 1960s. They starred with other characters in DC's Columbia licensed talking animal anthology Real Screen Comics (first issue titled Real Screen Funnies) beginning in 1945, then did likewise when DC converted the superhero title Comic Cavalcade to a talking animal series in 1948. The duo received its own title, The Fox and the Crow, which ran 108 issues (Jan. 1952 March 1968). Until the 1954 demise of Comic Cavalcade, Fox and Crow were cover featured on three DC titles. They continued on the cover of Real Screen Comics through its title change to TV Screen Cartoons from #129 138 (Aug. 1959 Feb. 1961), the final issue. The Fox and the Crow itself was renamed Stanley and His Monster beginning with #109 (May 1968), after the back up feature, begun in #95 (Jan. 1966), that had taken over in popularity. For the last ten years of its existence, The Fox and the Crow was written by Cecil Beard, assisted by his wife, Alpine Harper. The illustrator was Jim Davis (b. 1915), although it was generally unsigned.

Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but were later dropped for unknown reasons.