Oh, if only Walter Lantz had been able to keep making Grade A cartoons like the ones he did for United Artists! Instead his studio stopped ...

Did Jack Benny write some of his own guest columns in newspapers? Perhaps. But he had a highly-paid team of writers who he could draw on to ...

Reader Steve Bailey commented on a post several weeks ago: You mentioned Dean Elliott. I wish you'd do a piece on him, because I'm...

“A very nice colored cartoon. Different.” Thus spake C.L. Niles of the Niles Theatre in Anamosa, Iowa about a new animated short from the Va...

Even if you aren’t a fan of Tex Avery’s Symphony in Slang (1951), you can guess the meaning of this visualised pun. Tom Oreb designed th...

Ed Platt will always be known as The Chief on Get Smart , for a time one of the most brilliantly written shows of the 1960s, and one that be...

Happy children joyously greet the gifts they’re receiving from Santa. No, it’s Santa stealing the gifts! Where have I heard that voic...

Sniffles tries to stay awake to meet Santa Claus in Chuck Jones’ non-Grinch Christmas opus Bedtime for Sniffles . Alas, he fails. Sniffle...

You’re an entertainment reporter. What do you do around the Christmas holidays when there generally isn’t a lot of show biz news or gossip? ...

When you think of the generosity of Christmas-time, you naturally think of a guy who locked all his money in a steel box underground, guarde...