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...

Yowp here. I’m not a Christmas celebrant, but some of you reading are, either of the religious or secular versions, so I’m taking this t...

Is there any doubt that Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf was the most popular song written for a cartoon short in the 1930s? It was compos...

Disney has always dominated discussions about animation. There was a minor bit of hoopla amongst critics in the early 1950s about the “anti-...

Swing You Sinners is filled with almost non-stop nightmarish imagery and is one of my favourite Fleischer cartoons. Bimbo finds himself in...