SDCC: Enrico Casarosa’s Sketchcrawlings

Sketchcrawl founder and Pixar story artist Enrico Casarosa is debuting the second volume of SKETCHCRAWLINGS in San Diego. The book is a …

SDCC: Maverix Studios

Maverix Studios is a San Francisco-based collective of animation and comic artists. They’ll be exhibiting in San Diego this year at booth …

SDCC: Shopping Lists

Animation artists Jamie Baker and Ronnie del Carmen offer you their personal shopping lists for this year’s Comic-Con. Anybody else with …

SDCC: John Kricfalusi

I first met John K in San Diego eleven years ago so it’s only fitting to mention that John will be in attendance at this year’s …

ACADEMY SALUTE TO NORMAN McLAREN

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills has set Friday August 18th for A Salute To Norman McLaren. Hosted by …

LA TIMES on MONSTER HOUSE

It’s hardly an everday occurrence that an unknown twenty-something walks into a major studio and is assigned to direct a big-budget …

SDCC: Scott Morse

Pixar story artist Scott Morse wins the award for the widest variety of wares being sold by one artist. This year he’s offering …

25 minutes of Richard Williams spots

Garrett Gilchrist, the chap responsible for the recent THIEF AND THE COBBLER re-edit, has YouTube’d nearly half an hour of classic …

SDCC: Cartoon Modern

My book CARTOON MODERN: STYLE AND DESIGN IN FIFTIES ANIMATION will be making its official debut in San Diego this week. These are the …

Notes on Monster House

Artist Chris Appelhans has posted some superb concept art that he created for the upcoming MONSTER HOUSE. If the finished “performance …

SDCC: Out of Picture

My first exposure to the talented artists at Blue Sky Studios was a couple years back when I wrote the ART OF ROBOTS book. The general …

SDCC: AISLE 700

Clearly the presence of animation and animators at the San Diego Comic Con will be great. On Saturday at 12 noon a whole jam of events is …

LITTLE MAN = BABY BUGGY BUNNY

I noticed the similarities to the current feature film LITTLE MAN to a particular Bugs Bunny cartoon when I first saw the trailer back on …

PIXAR STORYTELLING

The annual Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles (October 19-22) is turning its focus to Pixar this year. The conference will have a whole …

Shady Characters in New York City

“Shady Characters” is an art show that opens Friday, July 28th, at the ‘Live with Animals’ Gallery (210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211; …

More on Cartoons and Copyright

A bit of a followup to last week’s post “Cartoons, Copyright and YouTube”. Emru Townsend at fps magazine linked to this excellent article …

Free NFB Shorts Online

Here’s an amazing site. In honor of their 65th anniversary, the National Film Board of Canada has posted on-line fifty of their most well …

Jim Flora’s The Day The Cow Sneezed

I’m a happy camper today. That’s because animation director Ward Jenkins just posted an amazing piece on his blog about Jim Flora’s 1957 …

Stephen Silver at Comic-Con

Stephen Silver’s new sketchbook, cleverly titled Stephen Silver’s Sketchbook, is hot off the press and will be debuting at the San Diego …

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