As the television years wore on, Jack Benny’s gang that made his radio show so great slowly broke up. Phil Harris left the show before it ev...

No, the title of this post has nothing to with Jerry Beck’s wonderful web site , which is putting up a lot of fine historical information ab...

UPA’s “Punchy De Leon” features a king with an outrageous design by Bill Hurtz. He’s almost all head and much of that is his mouth. Here ...

Blackface transformation gags wound up in several Tex Avery cartoons, mostly at MGM (“Droopy’s Good Deed” being a good example). But he put ...

You can’t watch early episodes of “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson from New York. Same with the Jack Paar version. Nor can you view man...

“Heavenly Puss” (July 1949) has some fine acting by Tom and the bulldog (even a Wile E. Coyote-like wave at the camera before Tom drops into...

How television has changed since the early 1950s for cartoon lovers. There are more hours of cartoons on TV in a day that anyone could watch...

A follow-up to a couple of Jack Benny posts. A couple of months ago, I wondered whether Jack Benny went back to 39 after celebrating his ...

Walter Lantz was the last cartoon short producer still in business when his studio finally shut down in 1972. He stayed in business because ...

Joe Barbera tosses in a second cat into the Tom and Jerry battle in “Sufferin' Cats” (1942). The plot’s simple. The cats battle each oth...