Friz Freleng’s Slick Hare (1947) featured celebrity caricatures, notably of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, but cartoon expert E.O. Cost...

Bob Gribbroek’s name gets lost when you talk about layout and background people at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. He worked for Chuck Jone...

In the mid-1930s, when theatrical animation on the West Coast had reached the point where studios needed professional actors to voice their ...

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

Art Davis gets a thumbs-up from me as a director at Warner Bros. What Makes Daffy Duck? is a great cartoon by any standard; I really enjoy...

Stop motion animation in the days of network television after 1947 meant maybe one thing—commercials. Jam Handy created a series of spots fo...

Animated television commercials were still popular with ad agencies and clients as 1960 drew to an end. Small production houses continued to...

Dumbo remains, as far as I’m concerned, one of the finest animation accomplishments of the Walt Disney studio. One of the most impressive s...