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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Works of art created in 1930 such as early Betty Boop cartoons depicting her as a dog, Disney's "Rover" prototype for Pluto, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Aug. 9, 1930 — 95 years ago Saturday — the cartoon character of Betty Boop made her debut with the release of the Fleischer Studios animated short “Dizzy Dishes.” Except this wasn’t quite the Betty ...

Betty Boop, seductive cartoon character who wowed movie audiences in the 1930s, has become a new item on the home video circuit 50 years later. At least a half-dozen collections of original Betty Boop ...

Corrections and Clarifications: An earlier version of this story had the incorrect title of the new cartoon. Betty Boop, the flirty cartoon character who first batted her eyelashes onscreen in 1930, ...

You’ve won 16 Grammy Awards and now want to write your first Broadway musical. What source material do you pick? There are so many great novels, movies, straight plays and TV shows out there to choose ...