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Not to be overlooked in this year of great classic cartoon DVD releases (the The Little King and Cultoons collection is subtitled …

Over at CreativePro.com, writer Gene Gable has posted a great series of articles on all aspects of vintage design, discussing everything …

A Hollywood production artist, part-time performer and animator, Paul Manchester, has inherited a cache of rare World War II animation …

There’s a big post at the Cartoon Modern blog about Sterling Sturtevant’s character design work on the 1955 short Magoo Express. The post …

Look! Universal has posted a teaser page to promote the Woody Woodpecker DVD coming out on July 24th. Note that pre-orders can be …

We must sadly note the passing of Jim Thurman, an Emmy-award winning children’s television writer, who died April 14 at age 72. I had …

Universal Studios’ Woody Woodpecker & Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD is now available to

…and you thought the early Disney character costumes were ugly? Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy arrive for a performance of the Broadway …

Any Baby Boomers out there recall those odd foreign cartoons that ran on TV in the 1950s and 60s, packaged under the Capt’n Sailorbird or …

Charles Shopsin has been semi-regularly posting old articles on early cartoon production, from 1920s-1930s science and mechanics …

Guess Who? I’m very happy to announce that Universal is releasing The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection on July …

Okay, this post is only for rabid Warner Bros. cartoon fans desparate to see any lost bits and pieces of animation created by the …

Here it comes! The first official release of the classic Max Fleischer cartoons on DVD, from Warner Home Video (who own the master …

The Hays office, and Hollywood cartoon producers, were just as mindful of young audiences back in the Golden Age of animation as …