Eduardo Cemano

Eduardo Cemano was the pseudonym of Edward Seeman (16 July 1931, New York City - 4 February 2025, Ocala, Florida), an American artist. Seeman began his animation career at Paramount Pictures, making animation cels for Popeye the Sailorman and Casper the Friendly Ghost, and later ran the media company Gryphon Productions. He worked with Frank Zappa in the 1960s, won a Clio Award in 1967 and an Emmy Award in 1981 for the intro to the children's show The Great Space Coaster. As Eduardo Cemano he directed some of the first explicit feature films to emerge from New York, including Millie's Homecoming (1971), The Weirdos and the Oddballs, also known as Zora Knows Best (1971), The Healers (1972), Fongaluli (1972) and Madame Zenobia (1973). He later became a commercial illustrator and died at home in Ocala, Florida, at the age of 93.