Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera didn’t come up with the idea of cycle animation for their TV cartoons. They used it much earlier. Here’s an examp...

On radio, Jack Benny celebrated the same birthday over and over again. In print, Benny columnists celebrated, too. There always seems to hav...

There’s a link on the side to a blog authored by a young man named Kamden Spies . Every two or three days, he’ll post about things connected...

UPA went from a studio that was about expanding the art form of the animated cartoon into being all about the bucks. You can thank new owne...

Spies can be anywhere, as America’s military members were told in the Snafu cartoon Spies (1943). Even the moose heads hanging above a bar ...

“You’ll like this guy,” the deadpan prison warden says to his happy suburban housewife. “He’s crazy.” And the prisoner hiding in their TV se...

Fred Allen was universally respected as a witty humourist when he passed away in 1956, though his wit had been pretty much reduced to the oc...

Yosemite Sam tells Bugs Bunny, in a pot, where he’s going to get the rabbit for rabbit stew. “We’ve already got the rabbit. Get the idea?” S...

A penguin paces in Frozen Frolics , a 1930 Van Beuren cartoon. A stork emerges from the chimney. You know what a stork means. The penguin...

The way it was told on the Jack Benny show, the members of Phil Harris’ band were petty thieves and cons. They weren’t, of course, but one o...