Cartoon Culture His Pen-and-Ink Live For Laughter… by Amid Amidi Friday December 28, 2007 10:20 am Below is an Eastman Kodak ad I spied recently in a 1950 editionof The Hollywood Reporter. I love the headline copy …
Disney Three Little Pigs named to National Registry by Jerry Beck Thursday December 27, 2007 7:05 pm Each year the National Film Preservation Board of The Library of Congress names 25 “culturally, historically or …
Disney Disney’s Bolt by Jerry Beck Thursday December 27, 2007 12:00 pm Disney fans are still outraged at the dismissal of Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch) from his film American Dog. Now …
Feature Film Animal Soccer World by Jerry Beck Wednesday December 26, 2007 12:30 pm This has to be one of the worst animated films I’ve ever seen. Animal Soccer World is apparently a Sony PlayStation 2 …
Cartoon Culture RIP, Oscar Peterson by Amid Amidi Tuesday December 25, 2007 9:46 pm Jazz legend Oscar Peterson passed away last Sunday at age 82.Below are a couple of his animated collaborations with Norman …
Feature Film Persepolis opens today by Jerry Beck Tuesday December 25, 2007 4:00 am Persepolis, opening today in New York and Los Angeles, is as far from the Hollywood status quo as you can get. It’s an …
Cartoon Culture Firehouse Five Does “Jingle Bells” by Amid Amidi Monday December 24, 2007 3:34 am A rollicking version of “Jingle Bells” courtesy of the Firehouse Five Plus Two, which includes two of Disney’s Nine Old Men. …
Feature Film Coraline clip by Jerry Beck Sunday December 23, 2007 12:45 pm Our buddy Ward Jenkins has a holiday treat posted up atDrawn! It’s a tiny mouth-watering clip from the new Henry …
Internet/Blogs The Oozing Skull by Jerry Beck Sunday December 23, 2007 12:05 pm Once again I’ll veer off topic to plug my favorite comedy troupe outside the realm of animated cartoons. As mentioned …
Internet/Blogs An Online Animation Festival by Jerry Beck Saturday December 22, 2007 3:30 pm A British internet magazine, The First Post, is hosting thefirst online animation festival on its site. What does that …
Disney Snow White Scrapbook by Jerry Beck Saturday December 22, 2007 12:15 am In honor of the 70th Anniversary of Snow White and The SevenDwarfs, Steve Worth has posted images from an an incredible …
Cartoon Culture Dumbest Moments in Animation 2007? by Jerry Beck Friday December 21, 2007 3:00 pm Among Fortune Magazine’s list of this year’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business are: 13. Disneyland – for its plan to revise …
Books Hans Bacher’s Dream Worlds by Amid Amidi Friday December 21, 2007 11:57 am A happy note to close out this year’s animation book releases:Hans Bacher’s eagerly anticipated book about animation …
Classic Happy 70th, Snow White! by Amid Amidi Friday December 21, 2007 11:11 am Today marks the 70th anniversary of the release of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Two worth-a-glance articles …