The Thanksgiving Playlist
However you celebrate Thanksgiving as a big cartoon fan, it’s always good to have a basic play list of Thanksgiving toons at your fingertips. Here’s mine.
Tag Archives: Tex Avery
The Final Needle Drop: “The Okeh Laughing Record”
Tex Avery knew the 1920s “Okeh Laughing Record” and wondered how it would work on a modern movie audience. With his last cartoon for Lantz, he got to try out his theory.
Gag Men: Tex Avery and Cal Howard
A funny thing happened along the way and a little mouse hopped up to the cuspidor. Here’s the story behind this Tex Avery gag sketch.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1948
This is the first in a new series articles I plan to regularly post that dives an little deeper into the history of the Academy Award For Best Animated Short Subject.
A Chat with Ed Love
Ed Love was one of the most admired animators of cartoon shorts during Hollywood’s Golden Age, a reputation that continued on through his work in television at Hanna-Barbera.
Tex Avery Under the Razor, 1934
Usually when Lantz got summoned by Henry Henigson, he had to sit around and watch this studio executive get shaved, but then came a surprise call about Tex Avery.
Tex Avery Chills and Thrills, 1955
There is even more to this Legend of Rockabye Point than at first meets the eye. Decades later, follow a runaway holiday balloon to learn a new secret about the man who gave us Chilly Willy.
Tex Avery Loses an Eye, 1933
This was a gruesome incident that gets whispered about in the annals of Golden Age animation, so perhaps it is time to point a forensic lens at that devastating paperclip…
Ed Benedict Draws a Smoke, 1933
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a new series of columns that will appear here twice a month (on Saturdays) that will delve into the archives of Walter Lantz…
Tex Avery’s “Blitz Wolf” (1942)
Today this week, it’s time for Tex Avery, a man whose credit is synonymous with divine magnificence. This is the only draft from Tex’s career I know of at the…
