Animated television commercials were still popular with ad agencies and clients as 1960 drew to an end. Small production houses continued to...

The Western cliché of one-upsmanship gets trotted out for a parody in Tex Avery’s Drag-a-long Droopy . The bad guy is dead shot. To prove i...

Bill Cullen is still my favourite game show host. And my favourite show he hosted was “The Price is Right.” It was a great show for the vi...

The death of Tommy Smothers shows how little things have changed in America in the last 55 years. Those of us of a certain age will remembe...

“Drop that duck!” Elmer Fudd orders the one-shot fox in What Makes Daffy Duck? “Throw up your hands!” he shouts. So the fox does. Except...

Jack Benny’s death on December 26, 1974 affected a nation. Newspapers in big cities and small towns reported it on their front pages. Days ...

Depicting violence in an animated cartoon is more than just a punch in the mouth. Otto Messmer used a great effect in the later Felix the C...

How many cartoons did Sylvester, Jr. do this? This is from Who's Kitten Who? (1952), written by Tedd Pierce. It seems like young Syl...