Holiday time is coming and that can only mean one thing: Hallmark is once again selling new Christmas ornaments based on classic cartoon characters! This year they have a nifty one (click thumbnails above) based on the Chuck Jones cartoon Rabbit Seasoning, as well as Tom & Jerry, Hanna Barbera’s The Jetsons, and The Flintstones and several other based around Peanuts, Jonny Quest, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Space Ghost and The Simpsons. Click here for more information.

Artist Robert Burden set a time lapse camera on his canvas as he painted his tribute to Voltron:

Pure eye candy!

Life Magazine has just put its entire photo archive online via Google. Results in the search of “Walt Disney” bring forth a treasure trove of rare pictures - including many candids (like Walt eating chicken), behind the scenes shots (like this mixing session from Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom), and special posed sessions with animators (like Ward Kimball).

Click here - but be prepared to spend a few hours eyeballing this material!

Here are eight station IDs for the late great Locomotion channel (1996-2005), a wonderfully programmed Latin American cartoon cable station which was bought out in 2005 by Animax. In it’s heyday, the channel mixed classic Hollywood cartoons, anime and independent animation. Good stuff.

I don’t know who did these spots, but they are bursting with creativity and a lot of fun. They had one, which I haven’t seen in ten years, featuring Krazy Kat and Ignatz Herriman style, as stop motion puppets. Does anyone have that, or know who did it?

In case you missed it - Today’s Lio comic strip by Mark Tatulli.

It’s the 10th episode of Cartoon Brew TV! And we’ve got a special treat today: Sunbeam directed by British director Paul Vester. This cel-animated tribute to classic animation, produced in 1980, has been long admired and is available online for the first time ever. Watch Sunbeam on Cartoon Brew TV.

Don’t let the title of this post scare you. We haven’t started stalking any animation artists (not yet at least). Thanks to Apartment Therapy, everybody can have a (legal) peek into the quintessentially midcentury LA home of Seonna Hong, who is currently the art director of Nick’s The Mighty B and has done background painting on My Life as a Teenage Robot, Powerpuff Girls and Teacher’s Pet, among other shows.