You’d think the first place anyone wanting an interview about cartoons would go, circa 1935, was the door of the Walt Disney studio. Disney ...

Felix the Cat was one of the great actors of silent film. Otto Messmer and his crew at the Sullivan studio developed an attractive, imaginat...

The cartoon delivers on its title. It’s called “Puss N’ Booty.” Yup. There’s a puss. And a booty. This 1943 Warners cartoon features more of...

George O’Hanlon’s life might be summed up by his entry on the Hollywood Walk of Fame web site . The page on George can’t make up its mind ab...

Let’s see. Characters that are outlines. Cigarette-shaped heads. Walls represented by a signs in the background. If it’s a 1950s commercial,...

Nothing quite conveys the message of Easter than a bratty kid bashing Elmer Fudd’s head that’s been decorated as a candy egg. This is fr...

You can see him leaning in, setting up, going in for the kill. Mike Wallace : They say you’re the father of our country. George Washington :...

There was a local radio columnist, back in the network days of the ‘40s and early ‘50s, who griped about the La Brea Tar Pits. He had nothin...

Cartoon fans have probably seen Tex Avery’s takes thousands of times, but they’re still funny. Here’s the climax of ‘The Chump Champ’ (1950)...

About the only people who didn’t know what to do with cartoons in the 1950s were the people who produced them. All the film companies knew h...