Giovanni Jones shows his displeasure with Bugs Bunny’s musical skills at the start of Long-Haired Hare . And that sets up Bugs’ declarati...

Ed Benedict is known for cartoons he insisted he didn’t even like. He designed all the stars of the first Hanna-Barbera cartoons into the ea...

“It’s a gold mine!” Fred Allen told Jack Benny about radio in an episode of the Benny show about how the humourist and the comedian met. The...

Music was the driving force in the early sound cartoons; think of the Silly Symphonies, the original Merrie Melodies and Mickey Mouse bashin...

You know the gag so well, I don’t need to explain it. So here are the consecutive frames of the burrowing Bugs Bunny surfacing in a middle o...

For years, Sunday night was Jack Benny night, first on radio, and then television. The Benny show was so seared into popular culture, refere...

Flatter character designs were in animated cartoons everywhere by the mid-‘50s. Here are some examples from Woodpecker From Mars , a Walter ...

The great rage at school in 1966 was Batman . And it was a great bonding experience. Everyone in my Grade 4 class would watch it and then ta...

Screwy Squirrel is about to clobber Meathead the dog when his cartoon is interrupted. In another great routine, Red Riding Hood and the w...