The good news was Leon Schlesinger had finally rid movie screens of Buddy in 1935. The bad news was he was replaced by Beans. Tex Avery was ...

Jack Benny’s comic abilities were lauded by everyone and so was his kindness and charity. That includes praise from some people in show busi...

Walter Lantz always strikes me as a decent enough man, even though his cartoons left a lot to be desired as time went on. He had an extreme...

What would a Van Beuren cartoon be without mouths joining together in song? One of them is the 1932 short Stone Age Error . What is the er...

It is nighttime in one of Johnny Johnsen’s background paintings for Drag-a-long Droopy (1954). Droopy the sheepherder is sleeping. He is...

Their theme song picked up on discontent about the status quo by young people. “We’re the young generation, and we’ve got something to say....

A shot of a fake newspaper with some real names opens the pre-Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare-Um Scare-Um (1939). There’s a drawing of co-direct...

Wonderful weirdness abounds in the Krazy Kat cartoon Alaskan Nights , a 1930 production of the Charles Mintz studio. There’s a great sequen...

You hear it all the time. Television was so much better in the old days. News coverage is biased, not like when Uncle Walter was on the air....

What does Harry Truman have in common with a couple of simians? They both appeared on TV with Jack Benny in 1959, about a month apart. The...