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Disney

Dispatch From Disney

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has posted another gem, my favorite piece of Disneyana of all time: the wartime in-house …

Classic

Killer Koko

Mike Van Eaton’s latest acquisition is a killer. An original Koko the Clown drawing, apparently related to (or for) the 1922 film called …

BrewFilms

Cartoon Dump: Episode 1

Combine the contents of my annual Worst Cartoons Ever! screenings with the warped comic mind of Frank Conniff (“TV’s Frank” from Mystery …

Internet/Blogs

FLIP #4

August 1st, and like clockwork animator Steve Moore has produced another issue of his online animation magazine, Flip. Lots of great …

Cartoon Culture

Op-Ed Cartoon

Does it mean anything that filmmaking icons Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni passed away the same week The Simpsons Movie …

Cartoon Culture

Spider Pig

Sure, The Simpsons Movie made over $70 million this weekend at the box office. But the big winner in all this is the estate of lyricist …

Internet/Blogs

Stu’s Show

A quick plug for Stu’s Show, the internet radio program devoted to nostalgic pop culture. I’ll be on later this month (August 22) to …

Events

Comic Con Finds

Strange stuff! Good things and scary things abound. Here are just a couple of my comic book finds from this year’s San Diego Comic Con …

Events

Day 3 @ Comic Con

Amid’s gone. I’m still here. Look who I met this afternoon at the Mattel Hot Wheels booth (where they were selling a very cool limited …

Events

Day 2 @ Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con Friday, 7.27.07, 9:15pm I apologize for all the pix of me lately. Dan O’Shannon and his magical iPhone took these …

Events

Day 1 @ Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con Thursday, 7.26.07, 5:30pm Signing Popeye DVD posters with Stephen DeStefano at the Warner Bros. booth. (Thanks to …

Classic

Popeye Song Folio

One of the best pieces of Fleischer Popeye memoribilia ever created was a 32 page compilation of sheet music, the Popeye Song Folio, …

Comics

Yogi reads Playbear

Reader Lliam Amor spotted this 1968 Gene Hazelton Pete Alvarado (see Mark Evanier’s comment) Yogi Bear Sunday comic strip original on the …

Classic

An Unabashed Plug

We’ve talked about it for weeks. Today’s the day. Support the cause. Buy the Woody Woodpecker DVD collection.

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