Looks like Betty Boop is trading in her jazz-age charm for something far darker. The iconic 1930s cartoon character is ...

You didn't think the low-budget horror movies based on classic cartoon characters had gone away, did you? Check out a first look at a bloodthirsty Betty ...

Starring Devanny Pinn as the killer Betty Boop, the movie follows a group of horror podcasters who break into a haunted ...

Public-domain horror has given us killer Pooh bear, murderous childhood icons, like Steamboat Willie-era Mickey, and a graveyard’s worth of “sure, why not?” premises. Some are fun, some are… choices.

In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time. Fleischer’s ...

Chicago will host the world premiere of a new, Broadway-bound musical about the famous cartoon character Betty Boop. The long-in-gestation show, officially dubbed “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical,” will ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers always knew that someday she would be a cartoon character. Her mother told her and her brother as much when they were children. But the actress always thought it would be as a voice ...

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CHICAGO - A Tony-Award winner from Michigan has helped bring a cartoon icon to life. You could be among the first people in the world to see a new Broadway-bound musical comedy about Betty Boop. It’s ...

Created by animator Grim Natwick, and voiced (mostly) by Mae Questel, Betty was the queen of the New York cartoon studio run by Max and Dave Fleischer — Walt Disney's only serious rival in the 1930s.

One was the creator of a squeaky-clean mouse named Mickey, the other the brains behind a squeaky-voiced flirt with the catchphrase “Boop-oop-a-doop.” But the two great American animators — Walt Disney ...