Some people make up animation history. They come up with a conclusion and state it as “fact.” A good example is the “fact” that animation ...

Johnny Olson was (and still is) my favourite game show announcer and I always got a kick out of seeing him on camera. It happened rarely in ...

Here’s another blurry-middle background from a Popeye cartoon, this time from “The Dance Contest” (1934). The blur helps simulate speed when...

Toots the cat is delighted, shocked and awed by the Zoot Cat knocking at her door. It’s really Tom in a home-made outfit. Here is one second...

When you think of Las Vegas comics, you think of loud, brash guys like Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles or Rat Packers like Joey Bishop. You do...

People under 25 may find it inconceivable that were was a time when cartoon fans didn’t even know who directed some of Golden Age cartoons t...

All kinds of stuff comes to life and dances in an Ub Iwerks cartoon, even tobacco juice spat out by Sailor Flip. Then the juice spits out...

The two-strip Technicolor that cartoon studios (except Disney) were forced to use for a few years toward the middle-1930s was pretty limited...

If Stan Freberg were doing what he was doing 60 years ago, many people would be cheering him on as he skewers Justin Bieber and the network...

The best-remembered feature of Fred Allen’s radio show was “Allen’s Alley,” where Allen would ask a question-of-the-day of four people which...