Cartoons have captivated and delighted children ― and the young at heart ― for generations. As the motion picture industry emerged, cartoons became a staple feature of the matinee. As television later ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at director Tex ...

Cartoons have captivated and delighted children — and the young at heart — for generations. As the motion picture industry emerged, cartoons became a staple feature of the matinee. As television later ...

Mark Evanier posted this Tex Avery-directed Raid commercial on his blog and I couldn’t resist linking to it as well. At the risk of offending pretty much everybody I know, let me say that I could ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

Tex Avery's cartoons were funny 70 years ago, and they're still funny today. Avery created the wisecracking Bugs Bunny and awarded him the signature, "Eh, what's up, doc?" He first heard the line at ...

Last Saturday the town of Taylor, Texas held their first-ever Tex Avery Day in honor of their hometown animation hero. They hope to turn it into an annual event. Cartoon Brew reader Matthew Kordelski ...

DURING animation’s golden age, Michael Maltese and Tex Avery were two wild and crazy guys who created some of the era’s wackiest cartoon shorts. Maltese wrote and story-boarded such classics as “One ...

Red Hot Riding Hood Made for MGM in 1943, this cartoon is the first of several Tex Avery directed variants on the Little Red Riding Hood fable. (Here's another.) These were, rather obviously, not ...

Teacher Julie Yun and her North Dallas High art students are painting murals of characters created and developed by Tex Avery, Class of 1926. Students are competing to paint the best mural of the ...

Creators Charlie Brooker and Mike Hollingsworth break down Netflix's new interactive special and violent slapstick cartoons. Before Netflix launched a gaming platform, they experimented with ...

Over 30 years ago, Will Friedwald and I co-authored a book (actually two versions of the same book) detailing the plots of each and every Warner Bros. cartoon. It was tough work, but someone had to do ...