I had a lot of fun writing a new article for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social about cartoon beavers throughout animation history, tying in with the release of Pixar's HOPPERS! Take a look for some great clips and history.

For our latest Cartoon Study, @nonsenseisland.bsky.social chews through animation history to spotlight some of the medium’s most memorable beavers, from Golden Age oddities to 'The Angry Beavers,' for the release of Pixar’s 'Hoppers.' www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-stud...

Dr. Seuss adaptations frequently struggle with expanding short stories to feature-length. I always thought a good candidate to adapt would be I HAD TROUBLE IN GETTING TO SOLLA SOLLEW, since it has a journey structure, so we could encounter various Seuss creations along the way.

Dr. Seuss self-portrait. I could stare at his scratchy line-work all day.

Really cool scribbly gestures by Spanish artist Alejandro Sirio.

Earl Hines is definitely one you don't hear about as much these days... I think even I only know a couple of his songs! Also, caricature I did a while back of Count and Duke...

Good taste! I love THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT... directed by Looney Tunes animator Frank Tashlin.

In honor of Tex Avery's birthday, here's a classic scene from Tex's SWING-SHIFT CINDERELLA (1945), with the beautiful Red animated by Preston Blair and voiced by Imogene Lynn.

Born today in 1908 - the brilliant Tex Avery.

Great moment from WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? (1965).

Bugs Bunny's friends.

Crazy gag here. From 1931's SHIPWRECK, by Walter Lantz & Bill Nolan.

Clip I'd never seen of Merle Oberon, star of 1939's WUTHERING HEIGHTS, thanking the Chinese allies in WWII. From STAGE DOOR CANTEEN (1943).

I can't get enough of Emery Hawkins' animation. The squishy fluidity of his movements just bursts with personality.

I always enjoy it when Woody Woodpecker sings in an operatic voice.

I love the amount of skill and creativity that went into this 1939 Hungarian stop-motion advertisement for lightbulbs. INCANDESCENT LOVE by Gyula Macskássy & György Szénásy.

RIP Enid Denbo Wizig, assistant animator and ink & paint artist on the classic Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1940s under Chuck Jones. She was deaf since childhood, but became an expert lip-reader and wrote about her inspiring life and career in the book "I Never Asked Why Me?"

Happy 93rd birthday to Kim Novak.

Hey guys! Check out my new article for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social about the times when Tom & Jerry actually spoke! Lots of history and great clips. www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-stud...

Tom & Jerry first appeared on February 10, 1940, in the Oscar-nominated 'Puss Gets the Boot,' and we’re celebrating the cat-and-mouse duo’s 86th birthday with our 16 favorite times the typically mute duo spoke. www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-stud...

Better than all the Super Bowl commercials combined.

100 years ago today, legendary cartoonist George Herriman runs out of ink in a classic KRAZY KAT strip, printed February 7, 1926.

Cool psychedelic painting by Heinz Edelmann, character designer and art director on YELLOW SUBMARINE.

I watched THE NAUGHTY NINETIES with Abbott & Costello for the first time the other day, and I loved this routine! Funny idea, perfectly executed.

Watching a masterpiece on Turner Classic Movies.

RIP Catherine O'Hara.

Since the Looney Tunes are coming to TCM, here's a clip from one of my all-time favorites: RABBIT HOOD (1949), directed by Chuck Jones. Is this the most thoroughly anyone has been tricked by Bugs Bunny? The moment where it sinks in is brilliantly timed.

Snowed in today. Be careful out there everybody!

Nicely designed and colored covers by Argentine cartoonist Adolfo Mazzone.

The way John McLeish reads this narration in WILLOUGHBY'S MAGIC HAT (1943) cracks me up.

Scene from my Star Wars parody BIZARRE WARS.

I especially like this rare Scrappy cartoon from 1933 when they drop a bomb on Mr. Dry - the symbol of Prohibition - and then everybody gets sloshed.

RIP Roger Allers, co-director of THE LION KING and story artist on THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, and so many others. THE LION KING was the first movie I ever saw in theaters. I can't count the amount of times I watched it as a kid.

It always amuses me how many cartoons there were about getting drunk made during Prohibition.

Great Bugs Bunny reference by Das EFX from "They Want EFX."

R.I.P. Guy Moon, composer on THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS and DANNY PHANTOM. I love that "bwwomp" reaction sound he used to do on DP.

Bugs playing both sides in this scene is so funny.

Just saw James L. Brooks' ELLA MCCAY (which I liked), so here's a nice Simpsons scene that Brooks wrote. Brooks wrote a lot of the more emotional scenes in the early Simpsons episodes.

A new year doodle.

Happy public domain day to Betty Boop! Here she is in her first appearance, the Max Fleischer cartoon DIZZY DISHES (1930). I love the wonderfully insane animation of Betty here by her creator Grim Natwick.

Happy New Year, cartoon fans!

I'm constantly impressed by the way the old Zagreb cartoons from Yugoslavia would move their characters around in ways that I've never seen and never would've thought of.

Some especially painful-looking punches here.

Merry Xmas! From Pat Ventura's GEORGE AND JUNIOR'S CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (1995).

Mae West's Christmas card from 1934.

Redacted.

Disney's Pluto cartoons of the '40s and '50s aren't as funny as the Donald and Goofy shorts of the same period, but they have their moments, like this interesting bit from SPRINGTIME FOR PLUTO (1944).

This must be the best superhero origin story of all time.