Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: December 27, 1944

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: December 19, 1944

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: December 18, 1944

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: December 14, 1944

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: December 8, 1944

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: October 23, 1944

A nice selection of color photos of Avery, Spence, Heck Allen and others at the MGM cartoon studio in 1953 at Michael Barrier's blog.

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: September 25, 1944

Tex Avery goofs on Spence's diary with Heck Allen and an artist, probably from Avery's crew, identified only as "Dog."

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: February 24, 1944

Heck Allen was Tex Avery's story artist at MGM. He is remembered by Joe Barbera in My Life In 'Toons with this moment of workplace harassment:

There was one great-looking url at the studio named Doris, who would sachet down the corridor, pulling in her wake the heads of a couple of dozen animators, who would peer out of their office doorways. In that most politically incorrect era. this went on for some time — a silent ritual among us — until one day Heck Allen called out, "It's a bird! It's a dame! It's Supercan!" And it was super, too.