J.R. Bray was an interesting fellow and deserves to be better known. For years and years, his studio in New York produced industrial and ed...

You’ve seen jagged effects drawings used for smashes and other impacts. In the Tom and Jerry cartoon Down and Outing (1961), Gene Deitch ...

Did you ever polish your car and then a bird... ... dropped paint on it? From the Flip the Frog cartoon The New Car . "Pretty Bab...

The chances were pretty good, at one time, you could watch reruns of an old TV show featuring character actor Jesse White, then when the com...

After slamming and locking a bunch of doors (and eating the key, in time-honoured comedy fashion), the wolf realises he hasn’t escaped Serge...

Anyone who’s seen a Pepe Le Pew cartoon will remember the routine where a cat-turned-skunk is desperately fleeing from him, slowing down fro...

If a survey was taken to name a character trait of Jack Benny, “39” would be somewhere on the list. Actually, Jack Benny never purported to...

The mood on social media was sombre, even respectful. Batman had died. Well, if you grew up in the 1960s, he was Batman. The only Batman. ...

What did you think of the Mirthquake Comedies? Or the Vagabond Adventure Series? Or Going Places With Lowell Thomas? They were among the “se...

Reginald Fox doesn't let something silly as a hunt stop him from enjoying his tea. He's English, you know. I like the expression o...