NEW YORK — 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.

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 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 ...

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.

With her oversized head, flapper dress and tendency to attract unwanted male attention, Betty Boop first came to prominence in the 1930s. She was a kind of character that hadn’t been seen in cartoons ...

What do you get when you cross a British reality TV show host, the studio that made "Happy Feet," and an 84-year-old cartoon sex symbol? You may not have to wait long to find out. It's been a busy ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. 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 ...