Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and ...

Paul Coker Jr., character and production designer on the timeless Rankin/Bass holiday specials and long-time Mad magazine artist, died at his home in New Mexico on July 23, 2022 after a brief illness.

Paul Coker Jr., whose character and production designs for the classic Rankin/Bass stop-motion and animated holiday specials and his many years as one of Mad magazine’s “Usual Gang Of Idiots” endeared ...

He and the late Arthur Rankin Jr. also worked on such classics as 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town,' 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail' and 'Mad Monster Party.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Rankin/Bass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jules Bass, the animator, producer, director and composer whose work included stop-motion holiday television specials like ...