“It wasn’t so long ago in the history of man’s voyage toward a better world that ships were carrying eager passengers toward the shores of a...

Maurice Noble and Phil De Guard are at it again in Deduce, You Say , a 1956 Warners cartoon from the Chuck Jones unit. This is panned left t...

Will Mrs. Consumer of 1954 choose the Quickchill or the Permafreeze refrigerator? Look at the Permafreeze. New style! Better quality! Yes...

There are places in the Chuck Jones cartoon Martian Through Georgia where the backgrounds look like they came from a UPA cartoon where a ma...

Remember how Phil De Guard’s backgrounds morphed during action from right to left in Duck Amuck ? Well, it happens again in Boyhood Daze (1...

So much has been written over the years about the great cartoon Duck Amuck , you probably don’t want to read anything from me. So, instead, ...

The changing look of animation in the 1950s was something that John Sutherland Productions adapted to very easily. Having big-moneyed corpor...

Phil De Guard paints some exceptional background drawings in “The Cats Bah” (1954). There’s a beautiful long shot of what we imagine to be A...