It takes 23 seconds to get from here... Through the clouds... To here. Only Tex Avery would try to see if he kept the audience that l...

There was a running gag on the Jack Benny radio show about his eyes. “Oh, they’re blue, aren’t they?” Bea Benaderet or some secondary charac...

I suppose it’s a matter of debate whether J.R. Bray was more of a businessman than a cartoonist. His film career began in animation, but he ...

Okay, I get it. UPA was the anti-Warner Bros., the anti-Disney. But its cartoons became anti-entertainment. I’ve just sat through “Picnics ...

Shamus Culhane found interesting ways to use the camera during his first stint as a director. There were several Lantz cartoons where the ca...

Did you ever hear Milton Berle go “urrrrr”? If you did, there’s a reason. The answer’s contained in this column by the Associated Press dat...

“Everywhere, people. Ah, mutiny. That’s what it is, folks, mutiny!” says The Cat That Hated People in the cartoon of the same name. Pat McGe...

You know the gags. The rabbit has a joy buzzer and zaps the hunter with it. The rabbit honks the hunting dog’s nose. The rabbit hands a shov...

Here’s a trade ad plugging the 1943 film “Cabin in the Sky.” Everyone loved Rochester on the Jack Benny radio show, so Eddie Anderson’s char...

Jay Ward’s writers didn’t waste time. ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle,’ ‘Dudley Do-Right,’ ‘George of the Jungle’ and ‘Super Chicken’ may have been t...