High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aesop`s Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop`s Fables. Although Terry later claimed he had never heard of Aesop, he felt that Estabrook`s idea was something worthwhile. Terry immediately began to set up a new studio called Fables Studios, Inc. and received backing from the Keith-Albee Theatre circuit.