Chuck Jones did it one way. Bob Clampett did it another. Both directors (and Friz Freleng) employed smears to move characters from one frame...

There’s nothing more amusing and satisfying to fans of a TV series to find a hateful reviewer fall flat on their butt when the show they des...

How surprised is Woody at seeing a lion walk toward him? His head becomes a red smear. The smear moves back for a couple of drawings. T...

A noise-making child alienates spaghetti-limbed adults and is ostracised only to become a hero to the adults thanks to his noise. No, it’s n...

It’s only natural that a blog named for the best character on “The Jetsons” should mention the cartoon series’ 50th birthday today. “The J...

Jack Benny’s career as a comedian started while he was in the Navy during World War One, so it’s perhaps appropriate that he would have been...

It’ll probably never be written, but someone should objectively tell the tale of Snowball, the studio set up by Bob Clampett to make Beany a...