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The NEW YORK TIMES has an interesting article (registration probably required) on autism and recent controversy over whether it’s an …

Here’s a highly recommended item I found at the comics shop this week: Amazon). Big Little Books are fun – this book is even funner!

If I were going to make a very personal list of the pleasures of the World Wide Web, it would include the fact that MichaelBarrier.com …

I’m continuing to watch Voom’s THE CLASSICS animation block in HDTV on the Animania channel, and while I do, I’m mulling over matters …

THE MOON AND THE SON, a 30-minute autobiographical animated film by John Canemaker, will have its world premiere at the Museum of Modern …

I’m up in NorCal researching Fifties animation design for my forthcoming Chronicle book, but I’m running across interesting non-’50s …

In the next several days I will point out a few gift suggestions for the cartoon freak in your family – or to buy yourself to counter …

As a cartoon fan, I’m embarassed to admit this: I’ve had the ability–and even a good excuse–to watch Fox and Crow cartoons at work for …

No, not Pitt & Damon!Asifa Hollywood members can see THE INCREDIBLES again this week at the Writers Guild Screening Room, Thursday night …

My friend Frank Calomino is selling his 16mm print of a Yogi Bear show on eBay. It’s got original commercials (obviously from a 1966 …

Brew regular Chris Sobieniak caught this swipe:While having to go to the store earlier today, I came across what I spotted as a near …

In Japan, an AOL-like service called Open Data Network promotes itself using a Disney Pooh theme. In the US, that would mean it was …

Joe Horne’s new Flash episodes of STEVIE & ZOYA, which I wrote about HERE, are now being posted at FlashPlayer.com. The first couple are …

Katie Rice, currently a designer at Disney TV Animation, has updated her website with a bunch of nice girl drawings. Worth a Sunday …

Over at my very own Harry Go Round, Kip Williams is reporting on Michael Paulus’s Skeletal Systems, a series of drawings of…well, of …

There are bears that have been licensed, such as Yogi, Pooh, Paddington, the Care Bears, and other lovable ursines who I’m forgetting …

Is it CG, motion capture, rotoscope… or all three? Check out the trailer and website for APPLESEED, supposedly opening in the U.S. on …

Spotted this actual ad on Variety.com yesterday. A long shot, but hell… If I were an Academy member I’d vote for him!

I haven’t seen THE LIFE AQUATIC yet, but last I heard the film’s animated sequences were created with stop motion by Henry Selick and …

Seward Street reports that Disney/DreamWorks animator James Baxter (Belle, Quasimodo, Moses) is starting up his own hand-drawn animation …