Ruh-roh: Scooby-Doo exhibition.

Running through April 9, 2023, is "Scooby-Doo Mansion Mayhem" exhibition at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, in Dearborn, Michigan, where visitors can solve mysteries alongside Scooby, Shaggy, and gang.

Doggone lit.

"The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons" exhibition at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum includes such sleuthhounds as Scooby-Doo and Dick Tracy's Mugg. The exhibition will be on display until October 31, 2021.

"The Case of the Screaming Bishop" (1944).

In this Sherlock Holmes parody, Hairlock Combs is on the trail of a missing dinosaur skeleton.

Popeye, PI.

In Private Eye Popeye (1954), the spinach-loving shamus is on the trail of Olive Oyl's stolen gem.

"... Underdog Is Here."

The defender of Sweet Polly
Purebread, on the job.

On Gary Shapiro's From the Bookshelf, Mark Arnold discusses his book Created and Produced by Total Television Productions: The Story of Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, and the Rest. Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo are now on DVD.

Chester Gould and other Oklahoma cartoonists.

Chester Gould's
Dick Tracy,
ca. 1953

A few sample panels available online from the Oklahoma History Center's exhibition "The Uncanny Adventures of Okie Cartoonists" feature, among others, Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Bill Mauldin, and—especially for Bill Crider—Kevin Stark's Geezer Comics.

Tom, Jerry, and Sherlock Holmes.

This week, Warner Home Video releases Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, in which the famed cat and mouse team up with the Great Detective to thwart a jewel thief. You can watch a clip from the episode here.