MOONLIGHTING ANIMATORS IN COMICS: Bob Wickersham
This week’s moonlighting animator in comics is animator and director Bob Wickersham. I hope this column will offer the most extensive information on him, as of this writing.
Tag Archives: Screen Gems
Cartoons and Quiz Shows – Part 1
Game shows — also known as “quiz shows” — became a staple of network radio in the 1940s – and a ripe subject for parody in animated cartoons.
Scrappy in ‘The Wolf at the Door’ (1932)
Scrappy as a Canadian Mountie, who should be arrested for sending Oopy out in sub-zero weather – in what appears to be only a nightshirt.
Top Five Worst Of The Worst Cartoons
All cartoons can’t be classics… but the good has to come with the bad – that’s one of the great rules of life. With animation, it’s pretty easy to dismiss…
Scrappy Love: “The Bad Genius” (1932)
It’s a busy week over here as we work on getting materials scanned for the Willie Whopper project as well as cleaning up several other projects at the same time….
Scrappy Had It Right: “Holiday Land”(1934)
First, some quick notes: • The TCM broadcast of ‘Van Beuren Cartoons‘ with be run on December 7th Sunday night 12/7 at midnight(EST)/9pm (PST). Tune in and see beautiful copies…
Superkatt: His Story
Editor’s Note: Milton Knight returns to Cartoon Research today to shed light on one of his favorite comic book series and its artist creator, Dan Gordon – an animator who…
In Honor of Moqui: “Scrappy’s Dog Show”
There will be news next week on the new Blu-ray/DVD Technicolor Dreams and Black and White Nightmares. Stay tooned right here. As for this week, there was sad news here…
Columbia’s “Color Rhapsody” Stock Posters
I’m a big fan of theatrical cartoon posters from the golden age of cartoons. While doing some research last week I stumbled onto the online archive of the Academy of…
A Visit to “Scrappy’s Art Gallery” (1934)
I hope that sooner-than-later the Scrappy cartoons are released on DVD or BluRay. They remain some of the hardest of series to see, along with the Krazy Kat’s produced by…
