Amid Amidi

In his latest article for AWN, The Animation Pimp explores the assholeishness of Donald Duck and arrives at the tragic, all too human, …

SIMPSONS creator Matt Groening talks to THE SUN about his new goal: “I’d love to get to 365 episodes, so there’s one for every day of the …

BREW pal and PC WORLD editor-in-chief, Harry McCracken, visited Pixar over the weekend, as part of the Cartoon Art Museum’s benefit …

A couple cool cartoon finds to report from my recent sidetrip to Montreal. The first was my discovery of cartoonist La Palme. In one of …

While I continue to procrastinate writing my Ottawa report (it’ll be sometime next week folks), check out the September 28 entry HERE for …

Scrubbles.net has a brief report on a talk given by SIMPSONS writer/producer Mike Reiss, which confirms that the SIMPSONS movie is moving …

Pixar’s Ronnie del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa will be having an art show, “Fragments and More”, at Meltdown Comics (7522 Sunset Blvd) …

Emru Townsend, the original editor of FPS: FRAMES PER SECOND, is relaunching the magazine in February 2005 as an online-only pub that …

Ward Jenkins, a talented director and designer at Atlanta’s Primal Screen who I finally met in Ottawa last week after many email …

Katie Rice (aka ‘KatieNice’), currently working as a designer on Disney’s MAGGIE THE MAGGOT series, has posted a handful of …

Ottawa ’04 has concluded and a complete list of winners can be found HERE. Grand prize for short film went to Chris Landreth’s RYAN and …

I’m off to the Ottawa Animation Festival, which starts this evening (it’s going to be a mighty long day). There’s an amazing line-up of …

Fascinating article (and delightfully grotesque editorial art) in the EAST BAY EXPRESS about Pixar’s continuing battles with the city of …

Appealing graffiti art HERE. Fafi is a French artist who specializes in drawing cute girls. Her work reminds me a bit of Katie Nice and …

Illustrator Mark Frauenfelder’s recent post on Boing Boing about the forthcoming Jim Flora book is a reminder of what a wonderful time it …

Milt Gross’s graphic novel HE DONE HER WRONG (1930) is examined in this ARTICLE at Indy Magazine. Somebody really needs to publish a …

Gary Owens, the voice of Roger Ramjet, Space Ghost and Powdered Toast Man, has a new book out called HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS WITH …

Here’s an ARTICLE from Frank Thomas’s hometown paper, the LA CANADA VALLEY SUN, with remembrances from Disney folk like Andreas Deja, …

Nice article in this week’s SEATTLE WEEKLY about indie comic publisher Fantagraphics. The piece relates that in the 28-year history of …

A few DVD’s of note that I’ve received in the mail recently: Politics and animation always seem to mix nicely, and the on-line short …