With a new, exclusively curated exhibit, San Diego’s Comic-Con Museum is celebrating the more than 90-year legacy of Betty Boop, whose child-like voice and pin-curl hair won the hearts of adult ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life and Times of Betty ...

She’s been in cartoon strips, television shows and movies. Now, she’s taking center stage in San Diego at a new exhibit at the Comic-Con Museum. The museum on Thursday opened a new exhibit to honor ...

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Jasmine Amy Rogers, a 23-year-old African American actress, is set to take the lead in “BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” that will debut on Broadway. The musical, which promises to bring Betty’s charm to ...

Betty Boop and Blondie are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of intellectual ...

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. Fleischer’s ...

A gran nicknamed ‘Betty Boop’ since she was a girl is selling her massive Betty Boop collection – which she has built up over decades. Betty Crossland was first called ‘Betty Boop’ by her dad as a ...

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 the two great American animators — Walt Disney ...