There are places in the Chuck Jones cartoon Martian Through Georgia where the backgrounds look like they came from a UPA cartoon where a ma...

Achieving national fame in vaudeville must have been quite a feat. There was no radio (let alone television) to give someone national publi...

How things changed for Paul Terry within a few years. In 1940, he talked to the venerable New York Times about how his cartoon studio didn...

Cartoons of the early 1930s were filled with singing. At Warners, happy characters designed from interconnected circles carried on, accompan...

Remember how Phil De Guard’s backgrounds morphed during action from right to left in Duck Amuck ? Well, it happens again in Boyhood Daze (1...

It shouldn’t be, but it’s still a little surprising to learn Art Carney regularly appeared on radio and television before he was Ed Norton o...

One of my favourite gags in Tex Avery’s The Three Little Pups is how a hand puppet of a cat being worn by the southern wolf takes on a life...

There is absolutely no doubt, even to the most casual of old animation fans, which studio this drawing came from. Yes, the gooney expres...

Edgar Bergen had gone full circle by 1957. He started out in nightclubs in the early '30s, became a smash on radio, segued into televisi...

Jack Benny didn’t exist until 1920. Before that, Benny Kubelsky used several other stage monikers as he made his way from town to town on a...