Cartoonatics

Happy New Year from Histeria 's Father Time and the (Big Fat) New Year's Baby.    Farewell, 2011, we hardly knew ye!  And...

Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo, Superman, Taz, Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny (no relation), Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner (related), Michigan J. Frog, ...

Allegra the alligator in an image from the holiday episode of  Animalia, the BBC series based on the classic book by Graham Base.  

The "Little Drummer Warners" cartoon from Animaniacs ...as seen on YouTube:   Happy Holidays!

Here's the logo for "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special" which first aired on December 6, 1992.   This image wa...

To celebrate the season, here are some holiday images from movies made by Laurel & Hardy, who remain among the very top comedy teams in...

For me, "It's A Wonderful Life" is the ultimate Christmas movie.    But when I was very young, I happened to wa...

When I was a kid, one of the things I looked forward to at Christmastime was the annual Coca-Cola advertisement created by the remarkable ...

This stunning portrait of Miss Information was painted by the producer of  the Histeria television series, Bob Doucette.   You can see more...

Buster Bunny One of my favorite cels of Buster.  Can you name the episode?  Do you remember the scene?  Do you know which studio animate...

Okay, maybe it's not the best Animaniacs animation cel ever.  But it's definitely one of the prizes of my limited collection.   Th...

This ad appeared in the trade papers, including Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the week after the Emmy ceremonies in May, 199...

Of all the oddball characters drawn and created by Milt Gross, Iggy is by far my favorite.     In the "Count Screwloose of Tooloo...

Question:   What part of the animation industry began with Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation ?  Answer:    Direct-...

From the September 29th, 2011 edition of the Pepperdine University newspaper The Graphic , here's a visual commentary from my son Luke,...

Fifty years ago today, Top Cat premiered at 8:30 PM (7:30 Central time) -- in color** --on the ABC Television Network.      ** See comme...

Here's a Tiny Toons cartoon that shows off a small sample of the big writing talent of Earl Kress -- who was not just an earl but a ki...

Earl Kress Earl Kress and his wife Denise Earl Kress was a major contributor to the writing of both Animaniacs and Pinky ...

In 1962, the great director Alfred Hitchcock was determined to come up with a film worthy enough to be the successor to his recent horror bl...

Sad news from Beantown tonight, where a head of lettuce wearing a ketchup fedora was cornered by five bowls of baked beans and then savagely...

These are the last two Animaniac Temporary Tattoos for now.  There are eleven more, and as soon as I find them, I'll post them.    In...

I think many of these images came from the Animaniacs style guide issued by Warner Bros. Worldwide Consumer Products.  The animation depart...

This one of Dot reminds me of a grade-school Valentine's Day card.    As for Pinky, he looks like he has been pondering the mysteries o...