1960 was a good year and a bad year for Bob and Ray. It was bad because CBS dumped their 15-minute Monday through Friday radio show on June...

The challenge facing Tex Avery and his MGM writers, Rich Hogan or Heck Allen—find as many gags to fit within the storyline of their cartoon....

Mike Maltese wrote a weird situation in Stage Door Cartoon , a 1944 cartoon by the Friz Freleng unit at Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny spends most...

He advertised himself (as a joke) as “star of stage, screen and radio,” but Jack Benny was only one of those 100 years ago. He didn’t get i...

Many, many people who worked on Warner Bros. cartoons never got credit on the screen in the 1930s—even animators. Painter Martha Sigall w...

Baseball being America’s Pastime, it’s a subject ripe for spoofing in animated cartoons. No doubt you’ve seen Baseball Bugs , Porky’s Baseba...

The Peachy Cobbler (released in 1950) is set up the way Tex Avery seemed to like to do cartoons. There’s the bare framework of a story cram...

Radio actors in the Golden Age had to be versatile. That was one way to get steady employment. When you could only hear them and not see the...