As it happens it was today, the 16th of August in 1930, that’s 93 years ago today, that Ub Iwerks produced his first theatrical cartoon short since a fight with Walt Disney and leaving employment with ...

E. Simms Campbell was an indispensable part of Esquire’s birth in the early 1930s. He established its visual style. He invented the original Esky character. And, in the words of its founding editor ...

Animation buffs have waited years for it, and now Fleischer Studio's legendary Popeye the Sailor shorts are finally making their way to DVD. Popeye the Sailor - 1933-1938: Volume One contains the ...

Artists use a color wheel for inspiration; to help select colors and mix pigments. Last month, a group of writers at Slate.com created this clever cartoon color wheel, which is both useful and a lot ...

John Dempsey, a veteran freelance magazine cartoonist whose full-page, color cartoons lampooning contemporary America were a staple of Playboy magazine for five decades, has died. He was 83. Dempsey ...

The Capitol Theatre’s annual Cartoon Madness show, featuring a dozen color cartoons in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series, will return from Monday, Feb. 15, through Saturday, Feb. 20, to delight ...