A pretty ugly wolf robs a sheep of his wool in the Walter Lantz Red Riding Hood spoof "Grandma's Pet" (1931). I love the path...

Dick Thomas was responsible for the background art in the Bob McKimson unit for the first number of years it was in operation at Warner Bros...

The ultra rich are generally not sympathetic people in television comedies, but there was one notable exception: Mr and Mrs Thurston Howell ...

Hanna-Barbera cartoons were known for repeating backgrounds. How many times did you see Pixie and Dixie running past the same living room ta...

The Old West isn’t so old in some cartoons; it always seems to have out-of-place modern inventions. Such a cartoon is Homesteader Droopy . ...

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, the old saying goes. And sometimes, it’s true. You could ask Larry Stevens. When singer Ke...

What do Howard Morris, jazz and Methodists have in common? The cartoon “Stop Driving Us Crazy.” Industrial and commercial cartoons could b...

Until Shamus Culhane came along in the mid-1940s, the directors at the Walter Lantz studio don’t strike me as guys who were all that experim...

A fish version of Jerry directs a needle nose shark to Tom hiding in a barrel in "The Cat and the Mermouse" (1949). The predator m...