If you’re a fan of Jack Benny, you probably know his regular cast—Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Rochester and Dennis Day. They ...

One of the crimes of the Golden Age of Animation is a decision by someone at Warner Bros. to shear off the original credits of a cartoon whe...

The name “Robert Q. Lewis” won’t come to mind when you think of someone who created icons in show business. But you can give him a small am...

When you have a nice piece of animation that hasn’t been seen in seven years, why not re-use it? That was the attitude of Mannie Davis at T...

Watching cartoons when I was a kid 60-plus years ago, there were things in them you never saw in real life any more. One of them was a candl...

Today, you probably know him as Thurston Howell III or Quincy Magoo. But in 1947, before those two characters existed, Jim Backus’ main clai...

Multi-character animation cycles take up a portion of Touchdown Mickey (1932); in fact there’s one cycle that director Wilfred Jackson re-u...

Here’s a question for people far more knowledgeable than I am about animation. You read, even on this blog, about certain animators who ha...