It was the show Jack Benny never gave. Jack had signed to perform in Dallas on October 19, 1974 to raise money for the Southwestern Medical...

The best newspaper ads for cartoons in theatres way-back-when are the ones featuring drawings of the characters in them. Some of the artwork...

Hugh Harman’s writers were no doubt sitting around, pondering. They had put Bosko in an auto race cartoon against a Pegleg Pete-style, cheat...

One of the things Tex Avery seems to have wanted to accomplish with All This and Rabbit Stew was to pick up the pace from the Bugs Bunny-El...

Fibber McGee and Molly had a wonderful run on radio for over 20 years, though the show was slowly dismantled as the 1950s wore on and the bi...

Porky Pig has no hair, but that doesn’t stop a wimpy Indian from trying to scalp him in Nothing But the Tooth (1948). The two are in a riv...

We’re set up for a familiar Warner Bros. gag in Sports Chumpions (1941). A group of cyclists circle around and around the track over and o...

It was a callous firing. At least, the way it’s revealed in Bob Metz’s “CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye” (Playboy Press, 1975). Jack Be...

Mutt and Jeff had staying power. They were in the newspapers for more than 75 years, another comic strip that outlived its creator. There w...