Woody Woodpecker was a pretty expressive character at one time, even in his gooney stage in the early ‘40s when Mel Blanc voiced him. Here a...

A book called The Great Comedians Talk About Comedy was excerpted over a number of weekends in the Weekly Observer , a Sunday newspaper mag...

The cartoons of the Walter Lantz studio became pretty easy targets for ridicule; exactly when that happened is in the eye on the beholder. L...

Even when there’s dialogue, the pictures tells the story in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. This is from “The Zoot Cat.” Tom stops his flame/fire/b...

Tex Avery’s literal masterpiece is Symphony in Slang (1951), where idioms were visualised naturally. A year earlier, Tex tried out the conc...

Television was a blessing and a curse for radio actors. One on hand, if the won a regular supporting job, fame and good money came their way...

Bugs Bunny gets his revenge on opera star Giovanni Jones in Long-Haired Hare . Mike Maltese’s story contains what director Chuck Jones liked...