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October 13: DMTV in Portland
Portland’s Floating World Comics store presents their fourth annual animation screening, DMTV, on October 13 at the Holocene club (1001 …
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Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck
Regardless of your politics, “Right Wing Radio Duck” is a nearly seamless remix of Disney cartoons that pits Donald Duck against Glenn …
Glen Keane Sells Dog Food
This is a new one on me: Glen Keane animated a Burger ‘n Bones dog food commercial ca. 1983. Wow! The commercial was produced by …
“Nine Nation Animation” Playing in Manhattan
Above you’ll find the trailer for Nine Nation Animation, a theatrical compilation of nine indie animated shorts that opened yesterday in …
TOMORROW: John Canemaker at MoMA
If you are in NY tomorrow evening, there is only one place you should be: at MoMA to attend John Canemaker’s lecture about his new book …
Tony Curtis, RIP
Joe Barbera (l.) with Tony Curtis Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, immortalized in The Flintstones as Stony Curtis, died last night at …
Scott Wills Blogs
Whenever I’m feeling down about the state of the industry, I only have to remember that there are artists the caliber of Scott Wills …
“El Gran Vázquez” Animated Sequences
Spanish Brew reader Roberto González sent in a link to these fun animated segments from the new Spanish biopic El Gran Vázquez. Roberto …
How to Make DreamWorks Secretaries Not Hang Up on You
Mark Simon, an animation artist with 2,700 productions to his credit, frequently hosts Hit Makers Summits where he charges thousands of …
Thomas Kinkade Improves the Disney Classics
Christian painter (and former Ralph Bakshi employee) Thomas Kinkade, who once allegedly urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure outside the …
Buy Ward Kimball’s House
Here’s the ultimate animation collector’s item: the San Gabriel, California home of animation legend Ward Kimball is currently for sale …
Video site Vimeo launches an awards show
When I posted Kirsten Lepore’s Bottle last week, I neglected to mention that the film is one of five animation finalists in the …
Exhibit of Warner Bros. cartoon art
Do you want to attend this exhibit of Warner Bros. animation artwork? Me too! Too bad none of us can see it though because it …
Titmouse opens a studio in New York
Animation studio Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Megas XLR) has opened a New York studio in the Tribeca district of Manhattan. The image above …
Creating Chewbacca
Great weekend read: Michael Heilemann explores how George Lucas created Chewbacca, or rather how he…um…borrowed…it from somebody …
“Toxie” Debuts on NPR Website
When I bumped into Stephen Neary a couple nights ago, he told me about his new animated piece “Toxie” which debuted on NPR.org this …
A trailer for a Jimi Hendrix short
This is the trailer for The Experience, a Jimi Hendrix-themed short that was produced to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of his …
“Bottle” by Kirsten Lepore
The first time we wrote about Kirsten Lepore, she was studying at Maryland Institute College of Art where she’d made an inventive …
A side-by-side comparison of Disney’s “Orphan’s Benefit”
Michael Ruocco, who discovered a lost Fred Moore animation scene on eBay recently, created this side-by-side comparison of the 1934 …
MTV Wants to Dabble in Animation Again
Bill Plympton, who is prepping for the October 6th theatrical release of his feature Idiots and Angels in New York, has been writing a …
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