Episode notes
Join host Ron Knight with animation historian and cartoon producer Jerry Beck. With over fifteen books on the subject of cartoon classics, as well as editor and writer for two popular animation blogs, Cartoon Research and Animation Scoop; what defines the choices and picks for which cartoon franchise films become the benchmark of greatness? In a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, Jerry touches on how the topic of next greats come to compilation, for encyclopedic biblical "authority" as posed to thousands of cartoon fans, historians, and animators. While Jerry and his fellow animation experts know the amusing anecdotes and secret origins behind many of the classics, is your favorite one of the greatest?