Thursday, 23 November 2017
Not Quite a Turkey Trot
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The turkey of Tex Avery’s Jerky Turkey isn’t as maliciously crazy as Screwy Squirrel, but he’s a quick, fun, one-shot character. Because ...
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Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Early Kovacs
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Perhaps excepting Fred Allen, no one worked harder or more devotedly at his craft than Ernie Kovacs, wrote reporter Hal Humphrey after Kovac...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Goodbye to the 67-Year-Old Teen Idol
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Watching The Partridge Family week after week, there was one question that always popped into my mind. How does David Cassidy get his hair...
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Skelet-me-close-the-door
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An eerie figure is silhouetted in the window of an old house during a lightning storm in the Flip the Frog cartoon Spooks (1932). It tur...
Monday, 20 November 2017
Skunk Takes a Dunk
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You can be assured of one oddball pose in an Art Davis cartoon. Here’s one from Odor of the Day , where a skunk battles a bulldog. Lloyd...
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Sunday, 19 November 2017
Listening to Benny
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“Did you hear Jack Benny’s show tonight?” Fred Allen would ask on the air to Portland Hoffa, and then proceed to use Benny’s own material to...
Saturday, 18 November 2017
She Missed Glory
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Perhaps the most puzzling credit on a Warner Bros. cartoon is the one you see to the left, where Leadora Congdon is revealed to be responsib...
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Friday, 17 November 2017
Ollie Hogs the Ending
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A familiar caricature ends the festivities in The Timid Toreador , where our hero pig’s hot t-teh-tee-tamales vanquish a bull in the ring. ...
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Thursday, 16 November 2017
Hacking For a Birdie
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Tex Avery spends most of What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard? having the two main characters try to kill and cannibalise each other. Here’s a 14-drawing...
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