T.V. of Tomorrow was no kiddie cartoon. Gags were aimed at sex-starved 1950s suburban men. There’s a television set with a Faye Emerson-esq...

Animation studios were busy during World War Two, and we don’t just mean theatricals where Nazis and “Japs” got their just desserts, or gag...

Jack Benny was supposed to saunter onto TV screens a year before he actually did. Erskine Johnson’s column for the Newspaper Enterprise As...

Something pleasant was mixed in with all the bad things that went on during the worldwide COVID-19 epidemic. It was Neil Sedaka. He kindly...

The familiar theme of noise/silence is explored yet again by Tex Avery in his final theatrical cartoon, Sh-h-h-h-h-h (Walter Lantz, 1955). ...

SCTV was not only the most brilliant show to come out of Canada, it was one of the best of all time to come out of anywhere. It started as ...

Van Beuren cartoons vary between odd and bizarre. Red Riding Hood (1931) falls in the “bizarre” category. There’s the scene where grandma ...

Yet another of television’s familiar faces on comedies in 1970s belonged to a man who found occasional employment as the bumbling Colonel Cr...

Some years after making the Roadrunner cartoons, Chuck Jones came up with his list of “disciplines” he supposedly etched in stone for the se...

There are times in the early Fleischer sound cartoons where characters talk but don’t move their mouths. Then you have the exact opposite in...