Columbia/Screen Gems did pretty obvious knock-offs of Warner Bros. characters. There’s the Columbia version of Daffy Duck ( Wacky Quacky ), ...

Charlie Dog had a routine where he was “50%” various kinds of dogs and enthusiastically went into cliché gags about different breeds ( Often...

If you want to watch a Warner Bros. cartoon that isn’t a Warner Bros. cartoon, then seek out Columbia/Screen Gems’ 1947 epic Wacky Quacky . ...

They were re-issued as “A Columbia Favorite.” Whose favourite, I’m not quite sure. Dog, Cat and Canary must have been someone’s favourite...

Mel Blanc enjoyed fishing. And, like a fish story, Blanc’s tale of how he came to be hired by the Leon Schlesinger cartoon studio grew and c...

In 1950, a local newspaper staff writer named Erma Bombeck told readers about alumni artists from Stivers High School in Dayton. First on th...

How could it be that Warner Bros. released a spot-gag cartoon about holidays on a calendar and Columbia did the same thing 13 days later? W...

Cartoon studios didn’t waste time when Walt Disney’s exclusive contract to use full Technicolor in theatrical animation expired on September...