Tex Avery’s anonymous cat discovers the cuckoo he wants to kill is sitting atop his golf club in “The Cuckoo Clock” (released 1950). These a...

Last year, we went through a bunch of Bob Thomas’ Yuletide season columns; Bob was the movie columnist for the Associated Press based in Hol...

As Christmas has now transformed into yet another day, it is only appropriate that Santa transform into something else—like a hideous old cr...

Christmas is a time for animators and others who toiled during the Golden Age of Theatrical Cartoons to show their skill to friends and rela...

What did you get for Christmas? A toy horse for just under $200 perhaps? Well, you might have if this was 1952. And you were the child of a...

Christmas comes but once a year but a fall from a cliff comes every cartoon to Wile E. Coyote. Well, it seems that way. Christmas and a cl...

Jerry Beck described “Bedtime for Sniffles” (released November 1940) as “A charming Christmas cartoon, a rare Warners bow to yuletide sentim...

Self-indulgent misbehaviour by celebrities has been going on as long as there have been celebrities, but these days we’re unwillingly inunda...

Let’s turn the clock back 100 years and see what the Sunday comics section offered around Christmas-time. The familiar characters of the day...

Ed Sullivan had what must have been one of the cushiest book deals with McGraw-Hill. He came out with a book he didn’t even write. Christmas...