Friz Freleng so popular that United Artists, distributors of "The Pink Panther", had Freleng produce a short cartoon starring the character, "The Pink Phink" (1964). After "The Pink Phink" won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), Freleng and DePatie responded by producing a whole series of Pink Panther cartoons. Other original cartoon series, among them "The Inspector", "The Ant and the Aardvark", "The Dogfather", "Roland and Rattfink" and "Crazylegs Crane", soon followed. In 1969, "The Pink Panther Show", a Saturday morning anthology program featuring DePatie–Freleng cartoons, debuted on NBC. "The Pink Panther" and the other original DePatie–Freleng series would
Cerebus the Aardvark stories above except "Demonhorn" were reprinted in "Cerebus World Tour Book 1995" Spawn #10, May 1993 The March 2011 (incorrectly dated March 2010 on the reverse cover) issue of "Glamourpuss" #18, written and drawn by Sim In 2017, Sim started publishing a new four-issue sequel series in which Cerebus ends up wandering - and, as usual, badmouthing - his way through Hell as depicted in Dante Aligheri's "Divine Comedy", with illustrations by Gustave Doré and Dave Sim. He has gone on to release one-shot issues each month. Cerebus is a misanthropic anthropomorphic bipedal gray aardvark. He refers to himself by