Bimbo and Koko try to escape from an alligator in “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You.” Swinging on some vines doesn’t help. Inste...

Simple was in, in 1954. Here some stylised backgrounds by Irv Wyner for the Warners cartoon By Word of Mouse And some longer ones. How m...

The Round Table at New York City’s Algonquin Hotel was known for its sophisticated witty repartee, or its catty put-downs covered in self-co...

Tex Avery used long limo gags in his cartoons and Bob Clampett does the same thing in “It’s a Grand Old Nag” (1946). It has a sunglasses...

Tex Avery’s Jerky Turkey may have been set in 1620 during the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock as they fled religious persecution b...

Unfortunately for TV audiences, Jack Benny’s second “farewell” special really was his farewell. Benny died before a third one could be filme...

Walter Lantz must have figured it was time to get back to work. His studio had made one year’s worth of cartoons for United Artists; the las...