Sing Me A Cartoon #14: Betty Boop’s Platter Party
Of the various girls who are said to have done the voice of Betty Boop, none made more out of it than Mae Questel.
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Sing me A Cartoon #13: The Girl With Three Theme Songs
When Max Fleischer started the Betty Boop series, the “music people” at the studio were already onto what was required: a theme song.
RADIO ROUND-UP: Arthur Q. Bryan
Today’s installment of Radio Round-Up explores the radio career of Arthur Q. Bryan, best known as the voice of Elmer Fudd.
Summer Book Reviews
Labor Day weekend is a perfect time to read a book or two. Here’s my latest round-up of books I read this summer – and I think you’ll want to get a few of these.
MOONLIGHTING ANIMATION ARTISTS IN COMICS: Anton “Tony” Loeb
In the final installment of this month’s feature, our featured artist is background artist and illustrator Anton Loeb!
Animation Anecdotes #326
“I wasn’t recognized on the street. But if I wanted to appear famous, I could just tell people I was Wilma Flintstone,” said voice actress Jean Vander Pyl.
MOONLIGHTING ANIMATION ARTISTS IN COMICS: Joe Oriolo
Today’s artist is more notable than many of the others profiled on this column – from animator to entrepreneur, here’s Joe Oriolo!
Animating the Space Race
This month my focus is on theatrical cartoons that made reference to the competition between the US and the Soviet Union to land on the Moon first.
Animation Anecdotes #318
Jean Vander Pyl remembers The Flinstones audition.” Joe asked, ‘Who wants to be Wilma and who wants to be Betty?’ it was so informal in those days.”
Popeye Goes Latin – Part 2
W’ere On Our Way To Rio was the third of the Technicolor Popeye’s – and one could argue the most lushly-animated cartoon Famous Studios ever produced.
