The cattle-raising wolf chases after Droopy the sheepherder in the great Tex Avery cartoon “Drag-a-long Droopy.” The wolf gets off his horse...

The Famous Studios cartoons? To quote Arnold Stang as Gerard on The Henry Morgan Show —“Ech.” I’m not a big fan of them. I’m not even a ...

At first, Kenny Baker was a shy young man who was grateful that he was given a huge break that practically made him an overnight national su...

Nobody goes on line or writes books to debate the merits of the Pacemakers shorts put out by Paramount. Or the Pathé Sportscopes released by...

A cartoon character running at the camera and swallowing it isn’t much of a gag, but it must have looked great in theatres. You’d find it i...

Steve Stanchfield is, well, you don’t need me to tell you yet again what an outstanding job he’s doing ensuring cartoons that might be long ...

Why two native Indians are flying and joyfully rubbing their noses together is just one of many unanswered questions in the strange 1938 Ter...

An intellectual from a respected family couldn’t be a cheater, right? That attitude was the whole lynch-pin surrounding TVs quiz show scand...

The first directors of sound cartoons grew up in the age of silent film, and the best of them could express their stories and gags without d...

Warren Foster could be cynically funny at times. One of my favourite Foster commentaries on the idiocy of the world is in the Goofy Gopher c...