Duct Tape Tron
This funny new Duck Brand tape spot recreates the light cycle scene from the original Tron using duct tape, and features internet “Tron …
Jerry Beck
Tweety’s lost titles
Here’s something I’ve never seen before – and you won’t be seeing it on DVD (or in color) anytime soon yourself. Cartoon historian David …
Jewelry based on 20s/30s cartoon imagery
Inspired by black and white cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, Paris-based web designer Tracey Polyflavor has been creating decorative …
“Aristocats” pencil test
Here’s something I haven’t seen before (pardon me if I skipped the Special Edition DVD): an early pencil test sequence from Disney’s The …
Korean girls love Felix The Cat!
Check out this really cool Felix the Cat female tee-shirt line from Korean apparel maker Spao. Be sure to see the designs on all four …
Talkin’ Cartoon Music
The folks at New York public radio station WNYC 93.9 are doing a whole week of shows on cartoon music. Today’s show – Soundcheck airing …
A “Cartoon Dump” plug …again!
[Start of Plug] What: Comedy! Songs! Puppets! Magic! And God-awful cartoons from the wasteland of 50s and 60s Saturday morning …
A Cartoon Color Wheel
Artists use a color wheel for inspiration; to help select colors and mix pigments. Last month, a group of writers at Slate.com created …
Disney’s “Planes” …again
We don’t usually post trailers twice, but three months ago we posted the trailer for Disney’s “Cars-inspired” direct-to-DVD movie Planes …
TV Guide on Jiminy Cricket (1955)
Here’s some fun for a Saturday afternoon. Courtesy of Stuart Shostack, and his incredible collection of TV GUIDE magazines, comes this …
“t.o.m.” by Tom Brown and Daniel Gray
I saw Tom Brown and Daniel Gray’s t.o.m. several years ago, when it played the festival circuit in 2007 (winning the top student prize at …
Lantz piece spotted in Columbia Picture
Here’s one of the most trivial discoveries in all my years of cartoon research. So last night I was catching up on some movies I …
“Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter!”
Yesterday, the Parents Television Council released its latest study, Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter: Sex, Drugs and Profanity on …
The latest “Tintin” poster
I’m not intentionally ragging on the Tintin movie. I love the character and the original stories, worship his creator Hergé, and admire …
“Steve the Super Hero” by Jason Doll
Manitoba-based indie animator Jason Doll makes modest little shorts between his higher paying professional gigs. His latest production, …
Lost Louis Prima Disney Song
Here’s a real curio – and a treat for fans (like I am) of Louis Prima. The son of late song writer Floyd Huddleston (The Aristocats), …
“Mellow Brick Road” by Reed Gauthier
Here’s a clever cut-out style digest version of The Wizard of Oz animated by Reed Gauthier, to a score comprised of samples from the 1939 …
Robert Breer (1926-2011)
Experimental animator Robert Breer has passed away. Breer was a fine art painter who became interested in creating films as art in the …
Nicktoons 20th Anniversary
We celebrated the date August 11th, 1991 earlier this week by marking the anniversary of The Ren & Stimpy Show. But that same second …
“Fruit, Juice! Protein?” by Tavis Silbernagel
“Man, I loves me some retro-animation!” I personally cannot get enough of the current spate of short films that are affectionate …
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