The sound says so much about Olive Oyl #Popeye #Animation

Organ grinder monkeys are a forgotten comedy element.

Destination Meat Ball (1951) #WoodyWoodpecker #Cartoons

It’s all about the last second slip and reach for the window. Though he’s doing the impossible, it can’t look easy. #MickeyMouse #Disney

Waitress, my soup is SO cold! How cold is it?

Mecano the Cat

A short loop.

In cartoon physics, the forces of an explosion can be creatively manipulated. You can be burnt to a cinder, yet not blasted skyward. #CartoonPhysics #ChuckJones #Animation

FRIDAY!!!

All a Bir-r-r-d (1950) #LooneyTunes #Tweety

This Popeye cartoon has some crazy background art.

I met Bill Peet at a book store where he was signing his books. He spoke with me about animation for a few minutes and was very nice.

Popeye torpedoes those crocs.

The old swallowed a magnet gag.

It’s rare to see anything that actually looks like blood in a cartoon. Pastry Panic (1951) Terrytoons

Some strong principles of #animation here. Line of action, overlap, arcs. And massive smears on top.

What Price Porky (1938) #DaffyDuck #LooneyTunes #BobClampett

I see two jokes here. One, she has to pay to get saved. What if you don’t have a quarter? Two, the machine wastes time with some unnecessary flourishes. A life or death situation made into #Comedy

Popeye swims fast enough to keep his butt out of the water.

Paying the Piper (1949) Directed by Robert McKimson #PorkyPig #LooneyTunes

His tail drops while his butt stays elevated. Then he falls while the rod doesn’t. #animation

Tex Avery

These are caricatures of the Ritz Brothers. They capitalized on the success of the Marx Brothers.

A still frame of Wile E Coyote. I love this pose. His legs don’t usually look this canine. He looks sneaky and integrates with the BG nicely.

He constructs a complicated plan, and is undone by the simplest mistake. #Comedy #Animation

I love Jerry’s stretched out entrance.

Self Control (1938) is something Donald Duck doesn’t have. #Disney #animation

Setting up a pattern, then changing something around it, is a simple comedy technique. In Cartoons Ain’t Human (1943) Popeye made a cartoon, and here the train cycle layer continues even though the background changed, so it’s also an animation “mistake”

It's amazing how many anvils there are in the tooniverse, and how few blacksmiths

Smooth

I believe this is a caricature of Norwegian skater and film star Sonja Henie.