Friz Freleng’s cartoons of the mid to late 1940s had lovely background work by Paul Julian, but as the ‘50s bumped along, Freleng evidently ...

Appropriately creepy backgrounds take up a good portion of the first third of Jeepers Creepers , a 1939 cartoon from the Bob Clampett unit. ...

Dick Thomas paints a rather prosaic farmyard to open All Fowled Up , a 1955 cartoon that was sort of by the Bob McKimson unit. This carto...

There are two ways you can have a very long background pan in a cartoon. One way is to paint a very long background. The other way is what y...

The establishing shot of Bell Hoppy , released in 1954, starts with a quick pan down a background drawing by Dick Thomas. Director Bob McKim...

Foghorn Leghorn steals the show in the Henery Hawk cartoon Walky Talky Hawky (1946). Director Bob McKimson scored a hit on this one. Showma...

You know how some Hollywood musicals just scream to a stop for an uninteresting singing number? That’s what happens in Bob Clampett’s, go-th...

Daffy Duck in shock in the cartoon Thumb Fun (1952). Oh, and an inside joke. Dick Thomas painted the backgrounds for Bob McKimson unit (...

Dick Thomas was responsible for the background art in the Bob McKimson unit for the first number of years it was in operation at Warner Bros...