Stories abounded in print at the time about how Jack used to worry all the time in the days of network radio. Evidently TV changed that, jud...

In 1926, he was a student artist and journalist at Redlands High School, winning fifth prize for his Orange Show poster (it showed orange tr...

Prisoner Spike decides to dig himself out of prison in Cellbound (1955), a Tex Avery cartoon finished up by Mike Lah. 20 years passes and...

I’m still not quite sure what to make of the opening of Magic Mummy , a 1933 Van Beuren short. It opens with officers Tom and Jerry listeni...

Let’s face it. If a TV audience likes a character, they want to see the actor playing that character do it until they get tired of it—if the...

Yes, folks, whenever a cartoon character has a hypodermic needle, you know what’s going to happen. Here’s an example from The Tree Surgeon ...

“Why don’t we see anything about Hippety Hopper on your blog?” asked absolutely no one. Well, I suspect someone likes those Giant Mouse car...

At the start of network radio comedy, you had Ed Wynn pulling off routines he had done in vaudeville. Almost 20 years later, at the start of...

Who’s the greatest cartoon producer? When it comes to promoting cartoons, the answer has to be Jay Ward. Ward’s cartoons were irreverent a...

I’ve always liked how characters come out of nowhere in Fleischer Talkartoons. They may be inanimate objects that grow hands and a face, or ...