Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and his horsey sidekick Pokey, would have been 90 today. Clokey spent more than 50 years perfecting claymation and stop-action film techniques. Kids just cared about ...

Fox Entertainment has acquired the classic stop-motion character Gumby, and all related characters in the Gumbyverse, from the estate of Joseph Clokey, son of creator Art Clokey. What is Fox planning ...

He’s been mocked by Saturday Night Live, trivialized in junk merchandise, and mostly ignored by the younger generation. The thing is, the early Gumby cartoons are pretty cool and quite trippy. And, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. My Los Angeles Times colleague Jason Felch has written an especially ...

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 ...