Events Tonight at L.A.’s Silent Movie Theatre by Jerry Beck Tuesday January 13, 2009 12:05 am Sound cartoons… Disturbing sound cartoons. Cartoons tooviolent, too scary, too depressing and, though made decades ago …
Flash 2009 New Year’s Greeting by Art Grootfontein by Amid Amidi Monday January 12, 2009 2:16 pm Every year around the holidays I receive a whole slew ofanimated greeting cards. The new year’s greeting below by French …
Comics Comics and the American Jewish Dream by Jerry Beck Monday January 12, 2009 1:35 pm Wanna meet three comic art legends? The YIVO Institute in NewYork will be presenting one-on-one interviews with three comic …
Internet/Blogs Cartoon Mojo Launches by Amid Amidi Monday January 12, 2009 2:22 am A new site launches today: CartoonMojo.com. It’s a video sharing site in the YouTube mold that focuses exclusively on …
Events Cel-ebrating Animation’s New York Roots by Jerry Beck Sunday January 11, 2009 10:10 am We’ve plugged the forthcoming It All Started Here! several times already, but once more couldn’t hurt. I also couldn’t …
Feature Film T28 teaser trailer by Jerry Beck Saturday January 10, 2009 9:30 am Already deep in production on Astro Boy and Gatchaman, thecreative heads at Imagi Studios now have their sights set on …
Events New Paintings by JJ Villard, Morgan Kelly and Jeremy Bernstein by Amid Amidi Friday January 9, 2009 4:39 pm “Edward Gorey at the Bowery” by Morgan Kelly Need somethingto do tomorrow evening? Then head on over to Atwater Village …
Books Times Up! What are your favorite Looney Tunes? by Jerry Beck Friday January 9, 2009 12:05 am The Looney Balloons above remind me that today is the deadlinefor you to contribute your personal lists of favorite Warner …
Disney Steve Martin in Disneyland Dream by Jerry Beck Thursday January 8, 2009 6:00 pm A postscript to my post last week on the Library of Congressselection of the home movie Disneyland Dream to the National …
Business What Tex Avery And Frank Zappa Both Knew About Making Great Entertainment by Amid Amidi Thursday January 8, 2009 2:05 am Want to understand why entertaining cartoons are all butimpossible to produce nowadays? You can have the answer in just …
Animators New Music Video by Dax Norman by Amid Amidi Thursday January 8, 2009 1:34 am One-man creative powerhouse Dax Norman, whose short film TheLast Temptation of Crust we featured in episode 4 of Cartoon …
Disney Disney’s Secret of the Magic Gourd by Jerry Beck Thursday January 8, 2009 12:05 am If you believed Roadside Romeo was Disney’s oddestco-production; or if you thought Disney couldn’t sink any lower …
Events Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics by Jerry Beck Wednesday January 7, 2009 3:00 pm The UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Center for VisualMusic (CVM) are presenting a program of rarely screened 16mm …
TV That Guy With The Glasses reviews Nicktoons by Jerry Beck Wednesday January 7, 2009 2:00 pm And let me also take the opportunity to plug this book.
Ideas/Commentary Animation Trends: 3-D Papercraft/Cut-out Animation by Amid Amidi Wednesday January 7, 2009 1:51 am Recently three-dimensional paper sculpture/cut-out/origami hasexploded as a major trend across multiple disciplines …