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LA TIMES ON ASIFA ARCHIVE
Nice bit of publicity in today’s L.A. Times: a full page article for the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Pictured in the piece (and …
Jerry Beck
DISNEY’S LITTLE MATCHGIRL
Several days ago Amid posted some harsh reactions to Disney’s new 2-D short, The Little Matchgirl, screened at Annecy. I saw the film a …
KEN HULTGREN BOOK
For those of you who have gotten your fill of the original Preston Blair Animation book, Clay Croker has posted pages from an even rarer …
JIM FLORA INSPIRATION
Art by Jim Flora is being posted by guest blogger Irwin Chusid this week on Leif Peng’s Today’s Inspiration blog. Chusid, author/editor …
RIK MAKI AT VAN EATON GALLERIES
Rik Maki began his career as a baseball pitcher in the minor leagues for seven years before trading in his wooden bat for a wooden …
THE 2006 CG IMPLOSION
Reason #7 (of 12) for the Implosion: The trailer for EVERYONE’S HERO.
ANIMATOR PAINTS NURSERY LIKE 1930’s CARTOON
Cartoon film collector Joe Busam recently post this slide show of his progress painting a nursery, in the style of a generic early-1930s …
RARE BUGS BUNNY CLIP
You won’t see this as bonus material on the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION dvd series. Here is the rare 1944 George Pal Puppetoon, Jasper …
BITTER FILMS DVD
Don Hertzfeldt writes us:I thought the cartoon brewery might like a heads-up about the big Bitter Films dvd due for release this summer. …
NEW PINK PANTHER COMIC STRIP
Last year Tribune Media launched a new syndicated Pink Panther comic strip, by Bill and Eric Teitelbaum (Bottom Liners), and they are …
ARGLE BARGLE
Self-professed “animator, actor, comics artist, archivist, director, collector, writer, historian, painter, packrat, recluse, hermit, …
1960s THEATRICAL CARTOONS
John McElwee, on his Greenbriar Picture Shows blog, recalls the horror of 1960s theatrical cartoon shorts:These were dark days for …
LA TIMES ON ED CATMULL
An excellent front page story by Claudia Eller on Pixar’s Ed Catmull in today’s L.A. Times (registration may be required). Couple of …
BEFORE WALT
For years, Ray Pointer of Inkwell Images has been compiling the best of early American cartoon art and preserving animation history …
ARF MUSEUM
Last year I raved about Craig Yoe’s Modern Arf, but I just got a copy of Yoe’s follow up, Arf Museum, and it’s even better. Is it a book? …
PIXAR’S Ratatouille
The teaser trailer for Ratatouille is now on the internet – click here to see it. Note the voice of the French waiter is none other than …
MEET ALICE
Walt Disney’s first movie star, Virginia Davis, will appear in person at a screening of two of her Alice Comedies from the mid-1920s at …
THINKING ANIMATION
Traditional animator Jamie Oliff (Mulan, Hercules) and CG animator Angie Jones (Scooby Doo 2, Stuart Little) have teamed up to produce a …
POPEYE ON DVD
Here’s the news I’ve been dying to announce for over 20 years.Warner Bros. and King Features have come to an agreement – at long last – …
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