Cartoonist’s Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cartoonists-Day-and-Front-Street-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/9/2006 Cartoonist’s Day Transcript The funny line drawings that we today refer to as cartoons have been with us for probably as long as people have drawn on the walls and floors of caves or in the wet sand of beaches. The name actually […]

Winsor McCay and His Fantastic Little Nemo

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Winsor-McCay.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/5/2004 Winsor McCay Transcript It’s Cartoon Art Appreciation Week, and the place to begin any reflections on the history of this most popular and unappreciated art form is with Winsor McCay. For several decades at the beginning of the twentieth century, McCay was one […]

Road Runner Cartoons

With April Fools Day approaching tomorrow, Kevin Shortsleeve has been trying to catch up with one this country's quickest tricksters.

Mucha Lucha

You may not have heard of Mucha Lucha before, but it’s got to have the best music of any kids’ cartoon show currently (or maybe ever) on television.

William Hanna and the Hanna Barbera Story

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/William-Hanna-Yabba-Dabba-Do.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/29/2002 William Hanna and the Hanna Barbera Story Transcript Today we celebrate the birthday of William Hanna who, along with his partner, Joseph Barbera, formed the award winning partnership, Hanna Barbera which brought us some of the most popular cartoons ever produced for American […]

Schoolhouse Rock

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Schoolhouse-Rock.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/22/2002 Schoolhouse Rock Transcript In the early 1970s, wrapped in blankets and crunching bowls of Trix and Captain Crunch, children all over America gathered, sleepy-eyed on Saturday morning to witness the weekly delights offered by the likes of the Pink Panther, the Road Runner, […]

Believe It or Not

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ripleys-Believe-It-or-Not.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/13/2000 Believe It or Not Transcript Believe it or not, here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle with a remembering about Robert Ripley: In 1913, Robert Ripley was hired as a cartoonist for the New York Globe. Five years later, he was worrying about coming up […]