CGI Fred and Sharon’s Movie Productions by Amid Amidi Saturday March 8, 2008 11:14 am Throughout the history of the animation art form, there havebeen a select group of innovators who have pushed the medium to …
Disney Hanako and Stitch by Amid Amidi Saturday March 8, 2008 12:08 am There’s an intriguing story in yesterday’s news wires about howDisney is producing a new TV version of Lilo and Stitch …
TV Popeye and Friends by Jerry Beck Friday March 7, 2008 12:15 pm For Popeye completists only: To be released the same day (June17th) as Popeye The Sailor Vol. 2, 1938-1940, Warner Home …
Music Videos Kumbia All-Starz Speedy Gonzales Music Video by Jerry Beck Friday March 7, 2008 11:20 am This music video, by Latin American group Kumbia All-Stars, hasbeen around for several months but I just got around to …
Classic What word is Bosko using? by Jerry Beck Thursday March 6, 2008 4:35 pm Below is an excerpt from a new documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex,Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood which aired the …
Books Leonard Maltin’s Movie Crazy by Jerry Beck Thursday March 6, 2008 6:00 am If you haven’t been a regular reader of Leonard Maltin’s website or his quarterly newsletter – both named Movie Crazy – you …
Disney Weird Ice Cream Truck Drawing by Jerry Beck Thursday March 6, 2008 12:20 am Mike Kazaleh sent in this photo and asks, “I’ve been seeing this truck around my neighborhood for years, and I finally …
Disney Small World redux by Jerry Beck Wednesday March 5, 2008 1:00 pm Whatever your opinion of It’s A Small World (and itsunforgettable – no matter how hard your try – theme song) …
TV Creative Bankruptcy in TV Animation by Amid Amidi Wednesday March 5, 2008 3:38 am Nothing says more about the sad, pathetic, desperate, moribundstate of the US TV animation industry than the fact that Seth …
TV The KidMan and Lemon Show by Amid Amidi Wednesday March 5, 2008 2:25 am Cartoonist Rex Hackelberg has posted a ton of developmentartwork that he created for a project called The KidMan and …
Advertising The Museum by Jerry Beck Wednesday March 5, 2008 12:05 am My pal Sharon Burian sent me some information on the project she just completed:I want to alert you to a short film that I …
Books A Book About Golden Books by Amid Amidi Tuesday March 4, 2008 5:28 pm Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, ChangedPublishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way …
Cartoon Culture Bakshi Coonskin shirts by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 4, 2008 2:00 pm In the 1950s it was coonskin caps… fifty years later couturier Supreme is offering a line of Coonskin T-shirts, based on …
Cartoon Culture Bugs vs. Daffy on Slate.com by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 4, 2008 1:00 pm The Brew strives to stay apolitical, but this very funny andtrenchant Slate article by Jeff Greenfield is worth a mention: …
Internet/Blogs Animation Studies Vol. 2 by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 4, 2008 12:00 pm Volume 2 (2007) of the Society for Animation Studies’peer-reviewed on-line journal is now available for download (as …