No story gripped the radio columns—and some news columns, too—at the end of 1948 than CBS buying Jack Benny’s company Amusement Enterprises,...

Ray Katz’ cartoon career began fairly easily. His brother-in-law gave him a job. His brother-in-law was Leon Schlesinger. He was personel ...

A dental chair is a living being in the Flip the Frog cartoon Laughing Gas (1930), and it’s none too patient with a patient. It politely i...

Wile E. Coyote thinks his “masterpiece” can blow up Bugs Bunny. It’s a flying saucer. As usual, Wile E. outsmarts himself by having various ...

The country wolf sums up the reaction of Tex Avery fans when the world was told there would finally (!) be a Blu-ray release of some of his ...

Totie Fields was loud. Totie Fields was funny. Oh, Totie Fields was plump, too. That was part of her schtick, as she barrelled through her...

“I was so bad, you can’t believe it,” he once admitted. And because of that, he ended up getting a regular TV job for seven years. The inte...

The maestro launches the symphony orchestra into “Largo al factotum” from Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in Tex Avery’s Magical Maestro ...

The idea of a cartoon character drawing his own props goes back in the sound era as far as Van Beuren’s Pencil Mania (1932), and I’m sure K...