Do not binge-watch Tex Avery Screwball Classics, Volume 1, strongly recommends cartoon historian Jerry Beck, who co-curated the first-ever Blu-ray collection of Avery’s MGM cartoons. “It’s too much ...

When it comes to the masters of the Golden Age of animation, Tex Avery doesn’t get mentioned as often as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Max Fleischer, or Walt Disney. But perhaps he should. Avery made ...

Grant Simmons (1912-1970) is not an animator you hear much about, but whenever I encounter his work in a classic MGM cartoon, it always jumps out at me. Grant Simmon in the early 1940s. (Courtesy of ...

One of the greatest pioneers of animation’s Golden Age of the ’30s through the ’50s was the one and only Tex Avery. Where Disney cartoons were safe wholesome fun for the whole family, and Looney Tunes ...

Ed Benedict, 94, an animator who designed many famous cartoon characters including Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, died Monday, his friend David Scheve said. Benedict died at home in ...