Mama Don't Like

Perhaps the greatest, most swinging time for American animation was the period when cats like Tex Avery and Bob Clampett found inspiration from the Harlem music scene. Here's a contemporary example by a cartoonist from Ecuador - one that channels Avery and Ren & Stimpy's John K. while illustrating a tune by the Inkspots.

Head over to Cartoon Brew and the original post to see the racism-in-'40s-cartoons debate rage on. It's an old, old argument that tends to center on this controversial, some say seminal, short.