It begins, as it always has, with a chase. A cat, a mouse and, inevitably, chaos. Suddenly, you are seven again, smiling at ...

On Feb. 10, 1940 — 85 years ago Monday — the first Tom & Jerry cartoon short and the first ... In June 1937, 26-year-old animator and scriptwriter Joseph Barbera began working for the ...

With 90-year-old partner William Hanna ... at Cartoon Network. The episode, titled Mansion Cat, contains all the ingredients of traditional Tom and Jerry. Surprisingly the violence hasn't been ...