Here’s a full-page feature story that ran in Every Week Magazine, a Sunday newspaper supplement that apparently was put together by the Nati...

Maurice Noble was lauded so much by Chuck Jones, his other layout artists at Warners through the 1950s at Warner Bros. get little attention....

There have been few posts here about specific UPA cartoons, despite the recent DVD release of the Jolly Frolics cartoons. The reason is beca...

If you’re of a certain age, when you think of Jane Withers, you think of Josephine the Plumber. Withers played the character on TV commercia...

What starts out as Wally Walrus playing a practical joke escalates into an attempt at murder in the Woody Woodpecker cartoon “Wacky-Bye Baby...

Tex Avery loved westerns. And he loved putting Droopy in westerns. My favourite is “Dragalong Droopy.” But let’s look at his first one, “Wil...

The terms “Also appearing” and “featured in the cast” have prefaced names of countless actors, but how many of them can say they went on to ...

It was evident by 1948, except perhaps to wishful thinkers in radio, that television was here to stay and that the big stars of the old medi...

The sad irony was not hard to see. The man whose song was used to chase away the blues of the Depression couldn’t chase away his own. A .30 ...

The early Fleischer cartoons are great fun. Lots of crazy gags as just about anything comes to live. Then there are the weird background cha...