Looking back at the best cartoons of the 1950s needs to take into account the era. With the ravages of World War Two somewhat receding and film production and attendance stabilising, animated feature ...

JAN-WILLEM DE VRIES has written several books and articles about the Toonder Animation Studio’s. One of his future publications might be an extensive (and heavily illustrated) chronicle of the studio ...

About Comics, the same publisher that celebrated Easter this year (and April Fool's Day) by releasing seven collections of 1950's nun cartoons by Joe Lane and others, is at it again. To celebrate ...

In the late 1950s, TV news was on the rise, as more and more Americans (nearly 90 percent of them, in fact) were buying sets. As broadcasters competed with print journalists for breaking news, writers ...

Does a middle-age man in a suit pushing a magical wheelbarrow mean anything to you? According to this cartoon from Fortune and LIFE magazines, he is emblematic of post-war America. In an attempt to ...

Here's a treat – an amazingly detailed illustration (see below) depicting the “hi-fi” of the 1950s by cartoonist/illustrator Roy Doty. This illustration appeared in the “Records” feature in the April ...

On Thursday, Walt Disney Co. will launch its big new marketing event, the D23 Expo, in Anaheim with predictably bright and shiny promotional messages about upcoming projects such as ‘The Princess and ...

Popeye aficionado Fred Grandinetti of Watertown is paying homage to the 1950s cartoons starring the spinach-loving sailor in three episodes of his local-access cable television show, "Drawing With ...

The only thing about this 1950s educational cartoon that’s more remarkable than its stylishness is how badly it botches its core prediction. It projects that between 1957 and 1975, electricity use in ...