More than a hall closet, was NBC’s “Fibber McGee and Molly.” By the time the end of World War Two rolled around, the show had pretty much ...

The McKimson dog can’t figure out why his dog house is moving like a railroad car in “Walky Talky Hawky,” the first Foghorn Leghorn cartoon....

We suspect One Cab's Family wished there had been disposal diapers in 1952. Witness the cab family’s backyard as rendered by Johnny John...

The following is self-explanatory. It comes from the pages of the Radio Mirror of September 1938 (which went on sale toward the end of July...

There’s more to an animated cartoon than art. The reason’s simple. Animated cartoons are entertainment. To be entertainment, there has to b...

The cityscapes in “Morning, Noon and Night Club” (1937) don’t have the wonderful everything’s-melted look of Fleischer shorts from a few yea...

“My cartoon would have been cuter,” chirps the coy little squirrel. Beyond a doubt, it certainly would have been. But it wouldn’t have been ...

People love happy little songs, even (perhaps especially) when they’re solely designed to sell a product. When did the first commercial ji...

You know how Mr. Jinks used to chase Pixie and Dixie along the same baseboard, past the same light socket 16 times. The bicycling background...

Can someone explain this? Two cats are fighting over Tweety in a nest atop a pole. The force of the fight causes them to fall to the ground ...