Radio has turned into the din of repetitious positioning statements and almost identical-sounding young people droning almost identical-soun...

How often is Sylvester the Cat a winner? Almost never. And that may the reason I like ‘Back Alley Oproar’ (1948). Poor Sylvester’s always lo...

Take Tex Avery’s sight-gag puns, mix them with “modern” design and limited animation, and you get ‘Symphony in Slang’ (1951). The animation ...

For years, Sunday was Jack Benny day on the radio. He was so popular that, for a time in the major cities on the West Coast, he was heard tw...

Tom and Jerry may have won seven Oscars in the ‘40s and early ‘50s but I’d, frankly, rather watch a Warner Bros. cartoon from that same peri...

It appears Paul Julian painted the woodsy backgrounds for ‘The Hare-Brained Hypnotist,’ a 1942 Warner Bros. cartoon. What’s odd is not the b...

The mark of really good entertainment is not only whether it stands up over time, but continues to attract appreciative new generations, som...

One of the most enjoyable pieces of animation that ever appeared in a Walter Lantz cartoon is in ‘The Bandmaster’ (1947) where a drunk with ...

It is said on the internet, and the internet is never wrong, that buried in this scene of Tex Avery’s ‘Jerky Turkey’ (1945) are caricatures ...

No cartoon series in the history of television made an abrupt change more than the original adventures of Peter Parker’s alter-ego. The show...