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Two decades before The Flintstones, Hanna-Barbera made animation history with the cat and mouse.

From its earliest honorees to the present, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short doubles as a kind of history of the ever-changing medium. We ranked them all — from animation’s golden age to the arrival of Pixar and beyond.

From red hot Twenties jazz to the contemporary stylings of Gorillaz, we pay homage to cartoon bands.

Created by Rudolf Ising, this cartoon dog headlined three Warner Bros. cartoons in the early 1930s

In both his approach to art making and in the subject matter he explores, Simmons foregrounds the unknown as an integral part of his process.

Looney Tunes, animated short films produced by the Warner Brothers studios beginning in 1930. Spurred by the success of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse cartoons, Warner Brothers contracted with Leon Schlesinger to produce an animated short that incorporated music from the studio’s extensive recording library. Schlesinger subcontracted the work to animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, who were using the then novel innovation of synchronized sound to create animated talkies. Their first animated...