At the start of 1927, E.W. Hammons’ Educational Pictures offered theatres a brand-new cartoon every week, with two different series alternat...

Breaking the fourth wall? Felix the cat did it in the silent era all the time. Here’s one of many examples. This scene is from The Oily Bir...

Animated cartoons are entertainment and, like any entertainment, a cartoon that appeals to one person might not appeal to another. It’s visc...

Depicting violence in an animated cartoon is more than just a punch in the mouth. Otto Messmer used a great effect in the later Felix the C...

Hallucinating Felix is fun. There are some great scenes Felix Dines and Pines (1927) of morphing monsters. We get a bit more of the same i...

In 1950, he was a 58-year-old maintenance worker for a candy company in Los Angeles. That doesn’t sound like the description of a fairly sig...

Felix the Cat probably wasn’t the first, but he was among the silent cartoon characters to drag out the pepper/sneeze gag that got good mile...

The silent era Felix the Cat can morph into all kinds of things, and he has a unique evolution in Japanicky (1928). In his haste to hide ...