Columnist Vernon Scott posed the question “What is Jack Benny really like” and tried to get the answer from his daughter Joan. Years later ...

Cartoon characters have been used over the years to shill products—think of Woody Woodpecker and a certain cola. And they’ve also been used ...

Farmer Al Falfa’s car radiator needs water, so he fills it up. The water spills over into the car. After Farmer Al drives away, we discov...

There’s a series of bird gags in The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938) that, a few years later, director Tex Avery would be ridiculing instead of ...

Today, if there was an America’s Prettiest Teacher contest, it would reviled and denounced on social media as sexist and objectifying. In th...

Gene Deitch uses background colour changes to indicate mood—at least, that’s what I think he’s doing—in The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (1962...

An attractively drawn version of Tom and Jerry dance to a song I haven’t been able to identify dance on the African ground in Jungle Jam (1...

No, Jack Benny did not spend eight years in university. No, he did not want to be a radio announcer. Those are some of the gag responses he...

When you dig around the byways of animation history, occasionally you run into some puzzling things. One is a story published in the Baltimo...

Private Snafu is dreaming at his outpost about...what else? Women. It is 1944, so she does have some clothes on (today, she’d probably have ...