Television saved the animated cartoon industry in the 1950s. Cartoons and other short subjects became to movie studios like an appendix to ...

As the characters grow in Tex Avery’s King-Size Canary , so the scene of action gets vaster. They start inside a home, then around a suburba...

Gene Deitch sure loved those spikey effects, didn’t he? He used them for both impact and pain in his Tom and Jerry cartoons. Here’s just on...

In the summer of 1977, I spent five half-hours a week marvelling at the concepts and performances on a TV show designed to live only 13 week...

A drunken mouse in a Disney cartoon? Well, we’re certainly not talking Mickey. Or Timothy from Dumbo , for that matter. We’re talking pre-Mi...

Seagoing Sam’s stool-pigeon parrot keeps revealing Bugs Bunny’s hiding place in Buccaneer Bunny , squawking “He’s in there! He’s in there!” ...