So what was the first cartoon series made for television? It depends on what you mean by “cartoon.” A number of news articles came out in 19...

Leave it to Bob Clampett to lull the audience into false sense of serenity, only to suddenly splatter them with silliness, pop culture refer...

You can’t lose people like Ed Love, Dick Lundy, Lionel Stander and Heck Allen and not have your cartoons suffer. That’s what happened to Wal...

W.C. Fields was one of filmdom’s most talented and iconoclastic stars. His movies were little more than short comedy scenes linked together ...

Bob McKimson is notoriously known for “calming down” his animators once he became a director at Warner Bros. in the ‘40s. McKimson had been ...

The MGM milking stool must have appeared at the story meeting for ‘Wags to Riches’ (released in 1949). Tex Avery and writers Jack Cosgriff a...

One of countless minor running gags on Jack Benny’s show was that Dennis Day had two shows. Beginning in 1946, he starred in ‘A Day in the L...

A couple of months ago, we posted about George Pal, maker of the imaginative Puppetoons released by Paramount in the 1940s. I’ve dug out ano...

I still laugh every time I watch Drag-A-Long Droopy and see the scene where the steer goes “Moo, moo, moo! Baa, baa, baa!” to the wolf. It’...

One of Sylvester’s best acting jobs is in “Canned Feud,” where he’s desperate to eat anything but needs a can opener that a sadistic mouse w...