Popeye was invincible after eating spinach, so the Fleischer staff found ways to make it backfire. In Can You Take It (1934), Popeye leaps...

Spinach doesn’t just work on “hu-mings” in the Popeye cartoons. In Strong to the Finich (1934), the sailor demonstrates to the sick-of-eati...

Imaginative visual gags are part of what makes the Screen Songs created at the Fleischer studio in the early 1930s so much fun to watch. He...

The Fleischer studio cartoons of the early 1930s are among my favourites of all time. Their attitude is different than the happy musical se...

Popeye and Bluto take their punchfest underwater in I Wanna Be a Lifeguard (1936). Their fight in a swimming pool is mainly on a five-draw...

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

Thanks to DVDs (and Blu-Rays), it’s easy for the animation fan to stop a cartoon and look at an individual frame. The Fleischers did this fo...