Silliness? Really bad puns? Parody? It was all wrapped up in one radio show that hopped about among various networks in radio’s Golden Age. ...

Wonky or worn-out cityscapes highlighted many a cartoon from the Fleischer studio in the early 1930s. By the end of the decade, the Fleische...

Chuck Jones wanted to make Disney-like cartoons with little or helpless characters, cartoons that made you want to go “Awww.” His boss Leon ...

Stanley Kramer shoehorned as many comedians as he possibly could in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). One of them, appearing for roug...

For many critics in the late 1950s, brand-new cartoons for TV were a welcome relief from what they saw as tired old theatrical cartoons th...

1930 was a great year for cartoons. At least, some of my favourites were made that year. The East Coast was humming along with the Fleischer...

Anyone who is a real fan of old cartoons knows about the crazy reactions of the Wolf to Red in the cartoons Tex Avery made at MGM. Other stu...

Howard Morris was so over-the-top when working with Andy Griffith and Sid Caesar, it’s hard to think of him as anything but a comic actor. A...

“McGrip starts his wind-up, and here’s the throw,” announces the play-by-play man (John Wald) in Batty Baseball (1944). The pitcher shows o...

Herr A. Hitler is so angry about a newspaper headline showing Daffy Duck's scrap pile has helped beat the Axis buddy Mussolini that he j...