Aging has always been comedy gold, and old-school cartoonists milked it for every giggle. From the 1800s into the early 1900s, illustrators cooked up hilarious sketches that smelled faintly of ink, ...

The grainy, black-and-white cartoon character cavorted around on the screen on Ron Kurer's computer monitor. It's part of the process of converting the cartoon from 16mm film to digital. "This is an ...