Johnny Johnsen has a few long backgrounds in MGM’s Out-Foxed (released in 1949), including a painting with overlays that opens the cartoon ...

As he got further and further into his tenure at MGM, Tex Avery didn’t waste time when pulling gags, and didn’t waste animation if he didn’t...

Tex Avery’s Car of Tomorrow (released in 1951) has some topical gags making fun of the Hudson (step-down car) and the Studebaker (front is ...

A pan over a Johnny Johnsen background was a favourite way for Tex Avery to start a cartoon. Generally, there was an overlay of some kind pa...

Johnny Johnsen invents a long living room over which Tex Avery pans in Wags to Riches (1949). I’ve had to break it up because it’s really l...

Tex Avery’s Of Fox and Hounds (1940) at Warner Bros. opened with a pan shot of a fox hunting club, with trees, a sign and a stone fence. A...

Little Johnny Jet and his father roar high over farmland and cities created by background artist Johnny Johnsen. Little Johnny Jet (195...

Lem and Daisy Goon square dance in a barn in Tex Avery’s The Hick Chick (1946). The background is by Johnny Johnsen. I don't know i...

Tex Avery jumps into familiar territory in the Warners spot-gagger A Gander at Mother Goose (1940). There’s Sara Berner as Kate Hepburn, a ...

I’d Love to Take Orders From You (1936) has director Tex Avery doing a Friz Freleng cartoon—a young boy and his father, with danger vanquis...

Johnny Johnsen brings us cityscapes and nature-scapes (is that a word?) in Detouring America , a 1939 Tex Avery travelogue. Avery was more c...