Seymour V. Reit, an author and illustrator whose most famous creation was the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost, died Nov. 21 in New York City. He was 83. Reit died suddenly after treatment ...

Casper was originally created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, who intended the character as the protagonist of a children's book. Before the book could ever come out, the rights to Casper, the ...

Stanley Kay, 64, of Port Murray, Warren County, N.J., creator of the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon character, died Sunday in Hackettstown (N.J.) Community Hospital. He was the husband of Isabell ...

You’ve probably heard of Casper the Friendly Ghost. You may even know that the cartoon character was a mascot for the Apollo 16 moon mission. What you may not know is Casper’s connection to Warren ...

Everyone’s favorite friendly ghost, Casper, may be coming back for another haunting. The lovable and adorable spirit has a project in the works at Peacock that could bring him to streaming in a ...

In 2022, Variety revealed that NBCUniversal was rebooting Casper the Friendly Ghost with a new live-action series for Peacock, reimagining the character’s origin story under the direction of Kai Yu Wu ...