The concepts of Iron Curtain spies and science fiction space aliens are a little outdated, but remain entertaining when placed in the right ...

The witch in the Fractured Fairy Tales version of “Hansel and Gretel” has only one power. She can turn boys into aardvarks. She agrees to c...

Is it possible to pick a favourite voice of June Foray? There are so many of them, and likely all kinds we have never heard because of the ...

It took a little time, but newspaper columnists slowly discovered a cartoon series starring a moose and a squirrel bathed in send-ups and pu...

Jay Ward made funny cartoons. Jay Ward made other funny things, too. If you’ve read Keith Scott’s essential book The Moose That Roared , y...

Am I the only one who regrets there were not more cartoon series from Jay Ward Productions? Perhaps it’s just as well, because they may hav...

Jay Ward sent out the best news releases. Ward had the best satiric and silly writers this side of Your Show of Shows —some ended up in liv...

It’s a comforting sight to tourists and local residents alike, standing firm at 8218 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. It’s the Bullwinkl...

Who’s the greatest cartoon producer? When it comes to promoting cartoons, the answer has to be Jay Ward. Ward’s cartoons were irreverent a...

There were problems aplenty at Val-Mar Productions, so many that even an heroic flying squirrel couldn’t solve them. It was the studio set ...

How many cartoon producers had a sense of humour? By all accounts, Fred Quimby at MGM and Ed Selzer at Warner Bros. did not. Paul Terry lik...

Bullwinkle the moose may the only cartoon character who took a back seat to the publicity for his own show. When NBC picked up The Bullwinkl...

The Jay Ward studios had some ideas that never got off the ground and others which took some time before they finally appeared on TV screens...