Ink and paint departments were pretty anonymous in the Golden Age of Cartoons. They did top work, though. I especially admire dry-brushing w...

Tex Avery didn’t originate the “large body behind thin tree” gag, but he seems to have liked using it. All he and his gag writers had to do ...

The young woman you see to the right had trouble getting sex. We should qualify this. It was in a TV role she couldn’t get sex. And the sho...

A phone comes to life in the Van Beuren cartoon Hook and Ladder Hokum (1933). It whistles to firemen Tom and Jerry to get out of bed. Un...

There were all kinds of people who didn’t get screen credit in Warner Bros. cartoons but, every once in a while, their names appeared on scr...

Out of curiosity, I did a newspaper search of this date 50 years ago to see what Jack Benny was up to. Lo and behold, there was a feature ar...

Mike Maltese doesn’t have a marker celebrating his life. Neither do Warren Foster or Tedd Pierce. But one Warner Bros. cartoon writer does. ...

A singing Bimbo (accompanied by a ukulele), Ko Ko and Betty Boop rake in profits from their new wonder tonic Jippo. Where does Jippo come...

When Gene Deitch was handed the task of creating new Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM, he and his writers put the cat and mouse in different l...

If Fibber McGee and Molly consisted solely of an overcrowded closet gimmick, it never would have lasted almost 2½ decades. The series feat...