It’s been a while since we looked at some of Fred Brunish’s backgrounds for the Walter Lantz studio, so let’s check out some from “Well Oile...

A week ago, we posted the first part of a two-part profile of Jack Benny from Parade magazine, a Sunday newspaper supplement, published Ja...

It wasn’t until “Gerald McBoing Boing”—and its Oscar nomination—that film critics noticed what UPA was doing and started dragging out the Di...

Any child of five should easily be able to grade the Popeye cartoons. At least, as a child of five, I did. The ones with the opening and clo...

I’m not crazy about most of Ed Benedict’s really flat character designs in “Deputy Droopy.” But I sure like the bizarre scraggly cat. The c...

Everyone laughed at how Jimmy Durante butchered the English language, Durante included. It wasn’t an act. Radio listeners and TV viewers kne...

Jerry’s anger causes him to develop super-human, er, mouse strength in the penultimate scene of “The Milky Waif” (1946). He swings Tom aroun...

A lot of cartoons used the idea of crooks giving up to police so they wouldn’t be abused any more by the main character. None did it better ...