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Thursday, 14 November 2019

Stick or Sausage?

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Can’t draw a horse in perspective? Pshaw! It’s no problem for the artists at the Van Beuren studio. Just draw a stick-figure horse. He’s...
Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Getting Away With Old Corn

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There weren’t all that many radio sitcoms in the Golden Days that came out of New York City. There was only one that came out of Puerto Rico...
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Tuesday, 12 November 2019

The Old Traffic Light Gag

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Ceiling Hero (1940) is full of gags that you can see a mile away and some that Tex Avery used over and over again. (The cartoon ends with t...
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Monday, 11 November 2019

The Old Body Leak Gag

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Before Joe Barbera and Charlie Shows dragged out the old “gets shot then leaks water after drinking it” gag in the Yogi Bear cartoon Tally ...
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Sunday, 10 November 2019

He's Epistolic

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Entertainers did their part during the World War Two. Some enlisted. Others entertained. Jack Benny was in the latter category. He toured t...
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Saturday, 9 November 2019

Voice of the Spider

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Paul Terry made a good living. He didn’t make very good cartoons. Comparatively, that is. In no way, shape or form do Terrytoons match up t...
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Friday, 8 November 2019

Becoming A Wolf

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Tex Avery (and writer Heck Allen) have some old favourites in store for you in Big Heel-Watha (1944). There’s Johnny Johnsen’s scenic backg...
Thursday, 7 November 2019

Silhouette of the Cactus Kid

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Peg Leg Pete puts the El Adobe Café into darkness in The Cactus Kid , a 1930 Mickey Mouse short. We get a couple of silhouette drawings inte...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Goldfinger Knows Nooothing

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Ridicule is a weapon. And some 20 years after the end of World War Two, America was still fighting the Nazis, except using ridicule. It was...
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Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Whose Rabbit is it Anyway?

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Francois (Mel Blanc) tells rival chef Louis that the Bugs Bunny is HIS in French Rarebit , a 1951 Bob McKimson cartoon. Note the positions ...
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