It started with a ball of clay, molded into shapes and recorded on film to a jazz soundtrack. Now, nearly 60 years later, some of the top stop-motion animators in the business will gather on Saturday ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Gumby franchise has been acquired by FOX Entertainment, with the company planning to launch a ...

GLENDORA, Calif. (KABC) -- Before SpongeBob SquarePants and Homer Simpson, animations fans were dialed into a green, clay humanoid known to the world as Gumby. "Every generation of kids connects with ...

GUMBY, the little green clay boy, is celebrating 50 years in show business this year -- it was in 1956 that he made his first appearance on television, on “The Howdy Doody Show” -- and he’s looking as ...

Today's Google Doodle shows a series of coloured clay balls that spring out into animated clay characters. It's a homage to Art Clokey, an American animator considered the 'father' of stop-motion clay ...

Gumby, the little green clay boy, is celebrating 50 years in show business — in 1956 he made his first appearance on television on “The Howdy Doody Show” — and he’s looking as young as ever. There’s ...

Gumby! He was once a little green slab of clay. Gumby! You should see what Gumby can do today. – Lyrics from the 1950s TV series He’s 49 years old and looks like an asparagus with legs. But for humble ...

Art Clokey, the animator who half a century ago created Gumby, that most pliant of pop-cultural figures, died on Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif. He was 88. His son, Joe Clokey, said he died in ...