Laughter comes naturally.And as the protagonists — the eternally beloved Tom and Jerry — turn 85, isn’t it a fine excuse to be a bit nostalgic? That’s eight and a half decades of frying pans, booby ...

On Feb. 10, 1940 — 85 years ago Monday — the first Tom & Jerry cartoon short and the first cartoon directed by the soon-to-be- famous team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera was released in ...

Known for his cartoons in the famed The New Yorker magazine, Tom Toro also dabbles in the art of children’s books. The ...