Jack Benny’s writers loved running gags and milked them as long as they could. One concept they came up with was Jack writing a wretched so...

How many of the artists connected with animated cartoons in the silent era are forgotten? One of them is Bert Green. You can read a short ...

There are some very nice expressions (and shapes) by the cars in one scene of Ragtime Romeo (1931), when Flip the Frog won’t allow a large ...

“Bugs Bunny could have been a bird,” Tex Avery once said. No, Tex, he couldn’t. The proof is the dismal cartoon The Crackpot Quail (1941). ...

The most over-the-top actor on Gilligan’s Island was one whose face you never saw. He appeared in several episodes, jumping around, grunti...

Pat Matthews was known for his sexy girl characters at the Walter Lantz studio, especially his animation on “Miss X” in a pair of 1944 relea...

For a rotund guy (for a while), Elmer Fudd could sure move. Look at the speed lines in The Wacky Wabbit , a 1942 cartoon from the Bob Clamp...

One of the reasons so many people were shocked when Jack Benny died was he looked not only healthy up until a few months before his death, b...

The greatest actor in cartoons was Mel Blanc. He could do almost anything, including have his characters imitate each other. Instead of Daff...

A glum tobacco bug spits out a radio catchphrase (and tobacco) in Crazy Cruise , written by Mike Maltese and begun by the Tex Avery unit, w...