Modern Character Design

MUCHA LUCHA creators Lili Chin and Eddie Mort weigh in on my comments from a few days ago regarding modern character design. Says Lili, …

A Frank Cartoon

Jim Woodring’s trippy comic FRANK is the inspiration for a fun new animated short which can be seen HERE. Taruto Fuyama, the film’s …

POPEYE BOOK

POPEYE: An Illustrated Cultural History into a slightly larger, 337 page revised edition. It’s a true improvement over his previous …

Chris Sanders’ American Dog

The images displayed HERE from LILO & STITCH director Chris Sanders’ next feature project AMERICAN DOG are absolutely mouth-watering. I’m …

INNOCENCE

If you are an anime fan, and an Asifa-Hollywood member, you can attend a free screening of GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE on the …

CartoonRetro.com

Of the countless millions of websites floating around the Internet, there is only one which I’ve ever felt compelled to pay a monthly …

A Conference About (Character) Design

PICTOPLASMA: The 1st Conference on Contemporary Character Design and Art will take place in Berlin, Germany from October 28-30, 2004. The …

Little bit of vip

I’m a little late in mentioning issue #6 of COMIC ART magazine, but I just picked it up over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the piece …

VERY SCARY

“Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie” came in 4th place this weekend with $9.4 million in three days. That’s more than TEACHER’S PET made during it’s …

Bakshi Online

Dealing with the subject of the site I’m plugging today has personally been a most distasteful and unpleasant experience, but I’ll be …

GOLDEN AGE CARTOONS

Seven dedicated classic cartoon historians have banded their websites together under a new central banner Golden Age Cartoons.GAC is run …

SKY CAPTAIN

I caught an advance screening of SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW last night and enjoyed it immensely.As a fan of cliffhanger …

DAVE MONAHAN BLOG

Sue Larkin has been updating an ongoing blog about her dad, lengendary Looney Tunes writer Dave Monahan, since his passing away in May …

LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN DVD #2

Our friends at TV Shows on DVD.com scooped us yesterday with some new details on the

Asian Inspiration

An incredible look at Japanese illustrators from the 1920s and early-1930s can be found HERE. The artwork is from a picture book magazine …

Eggbert Little

An observant friend at Film Roman recently pointed out that it’s nice to see that the WB character Eggbert (a.k.a. Egghead Jr.) is …

UPA COMPOSER PASSES AWAY

David Raksin, who scored several classic UPA cartoons in the 1950s, including The Unicorn in the Garden, Madeline, Sloppy Jalopy and …

The Fred Crippen Retrospective

I’m really excited about this year’s Ottawa Animation Festival (September 22-26) and even more excited about the Fred Crippen …

POPEYE VILLAGE

Ever wonder what happened to the sets for the town they erected for Robert Altman’s 1980 live action POPEYE feature film? Wonder no more: …

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