Mental Floss

Raymond Scott, Avant-Garde Creator of Classic Cartoon Music

If you've ever parked yourself in front of the TV to watch Looney Tunes, The Ren & Stimpy Show, or countless other cartoons, the music of Raymond Scott should be instantly recognizable, even if you've ...
Cartoon Brew

When Classical Music And Cartoons Mingled: How Friz Freleng’s ‘Rhapsody In Rivets’ Became “A Working-Class Fantasia”

Cartoon Brew is pleased to present an exclusive excerpt from the new book Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes by Jaime Weinman. The book can be purchased from the ...
NPR

Classical Masterpieces Turn Up in Cartoons

Cartoons made in the 1940s and '50s featured characters like Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker and Elmer Fudd pretending to play significant operatic and symphonic works or feuding with their sworn enemies ...
Rolling Stone

Revisiting Beatles’ Wonderfully Wacky Cartoon Series, 50 Years Later

Even Beatles completists sometimes have a blind spot when it comes to the band’s eponymous cartoon, which ran on ABC for four years — starting exactly 50 years ago, on September 25th, 1965. If you ...