Criticizing Animation Criticism
Inspired by Mick LaSalle’s MONSTER HOUSE review, Nick Tam has posted some excellent thoughts on today’s state of animation criticism. …
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Best Comment Yet on BARNYARD
Oscar-nominated animation director Michael Sporn has a thought about all the negative reviews that the Nickelodeon feature BARNYARD is …
Praxinos’ Odyssey, A New 2D Animation Tool Powered By Unreal Engine, Is Out Now
Praxinos manager and co-founder Elodie Moog joined us for a brief Q&A about the software.
Paul Scheurich at Comic-Con
Speaking of prints, the image above is a vintage lithograph that I picked up in San Diego (click on it for a larger version). The company …
Fleet Street Scandal
The boys at Fleet Street Scandal – Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham – have posted a comprehensive set of photos from the Comic-Con with lots …
LE ROI ET L’OISEAU
Studio Ghibli has released Paul Grimault’s classic French feature LE ROI ET L’OISEAU onto dvd in Japan. The production story of this film …
Canada’s Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle is quickly becoming a household name; in the past week, his awful MONSTER HOUSE has been picked up all over the blogosphere …
RANKIN BASS BLOG
Rankin-Bass historian Rick Goldschmidt has now started a companion blog to his already massive Enchanted World Of Rankin Bass website. …
ANIMANIACS/PINKY AND THE BRAIN TRIVIA CONTEST
Are you a PINKY or a BRAIN?We had a contest this morning and the first ten readers who answered any one of the questions below won a DVD …
Cartoons And Janet Klein
Thursday night, August 3rd, in a small theatre in Hollywood I will be projecting several celluloid 16mm cartoons as the “opening act” of …
ANIMANIACS DVD CONTEST!
Narf! Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) we will give away a few copies of the brand new ANIMANIACS and PINKY AND THE BRAIN dvds to several lucky …
Humans as Pixels
Animator Pete Levin writes: I saw this bank commercial while in Turkey and fell in love with it. While it’s technically live action, it …
A Letter to Mick LaSalle
Pixar story artist Jeff Pidgeon wrote a letter to SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE movie reviewer Mick LaSalle, in which he completely dismantled …
Non-Surprise of the Week
So, ANT BULLY tanked. The Warner Bros.-distributed, Tom Hanks-produced film collected a meager $8.1 million (estimate) from 3,050 …
COMIC CON RECAP #3: A COMIC BOOK REVIEW
I’m still going over the booty I obtained at the San Diego Comic Con last weekend. One thing I didn’t devote enough time to at the Comic …
KING LEONARDO ON BLACK FAMILY CHANNEL
Classic cartoons (and by that I mean the wide swath of animation history from 1906 to its dying days in the 1970s) are practically …
The Friz Freleng Blog-A-Thon
Brian of the Hell on Frisco Bay blog notes that August 21, 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Friz Freleng’s birth, and he’s officially …
The Parade of Ignorance Continues
From Paul Johnson’s invented history of the Disney strike to Mick LaSalle’s broad dismissal of a hundred years of animation …
SUPERTHUNDERSTINGCAR
Classic bit of British comedy: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore spoof Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s F.A.B. 1960s Supermarionation TV shows. …
MEDICAL TOONS
Rarely screened historic medical cartoons will be featured in a film series this fall at the National Academies in Washington DC. The …
Cartoon Brew Reader Survey
We recently signed on with John Battelle’s Federated Media to represent us for online advertising. Federated is a boutique ad rep …
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