Cartoons In the Center Ring (Part 1)
Splashy, gaudy, and eye-catching, best known by the phrase “the Greatest Show on Earth”. It was – – THE CIRCUS.
Tag Archives: Mutt and Jeff
New York Animation: The Many Incarnations of Mutt & Jeff Studios
The popular animated duo of the teens and twenties – and the many hands that worked on their films.
A Charley Bowers Cartoon Detective Story
While I continue to fulfill Thunderbean back orders, my friend Eric Grayson writes about his heroic efforts to research and restore a rare Mutt & Jeff cartoon.
Mutt and Jeff in “Playing with Fire” (1926)
Here’s an interesting cartoon to chat about. It’s an enjoyable little romp – and it stars Mutt and Jeff.
The INVISIBLE Article (Part 1)
Invisibility is a subject which has instant appeal to an animator. Imagine the “line mileage” saved when you don’t even have to draw your featured character!
“Klanimation”
Commercial animation during the silent era rarely addressed political movements – and staffers of the cartoon studios comprised part of the demographics that the Ku Klux Klan abhorred.
Animation Anecdotes #275
Matt Groening said in 1992, “I’m working with Brad Bird on a spin-off of The Simpsons called The Krusty the Clown Show. I think it will be the first live-action spin-off of a cartoon.
