WHO IS OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT?
Find out in a short film now playing on Disney.com.
Jerry Beck
THE LAST WARNER BROS. CARTOON
Peter Paltridge has posted a bunch of funny/strange pages on his website, such as this one devoted to the worst TV cartoons he’s seen, …
FLEISCHER’S FIRST FEATURE
A company called Collector’s Guide Publishing is making Max Fleischer’s 1923 feature film The Einstein Theory of Relativity available on …
Oskar Fischinger: DVD
Here’s a DVD I’ve been waiting for, Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films. This is the first DVD release by the Center for Visual Music, and …
SUNSHINE MAKERS
Pop culture historian Michael J. Hayde has a great website Better Living Through Television where he waxes nostalgically about the good …
FAMILY GUY STEALS
A confirmed FAMILY GUY hater named Randy has started a blog to “document every instance of Seth MacFarlane stealing jokes, and finally …
MIGHTY MOUSE MOVIE?
Mighty Mouse fan Neil Beck (no relation) has posted some pre-production images from the long-in-development MIGHTY MOUSE movie on his …
STUPID COMICS
I love print cartoons, comic strips and comic books. Maybe that’s why three of my favorite websites affectionately skewer classic and …
EARL KRESS BLOGS
My buddy Earl Kress has just started a blog, and I’m sure he will add a lot to this so-called blogosphere. Earl’s the man behind the …
NOT SO WILD ABOUT THE WILD
East coast film reporter Eric Lurio sent us this note concerning The Wild:”For the first time in its history, Disney will NOT, I repeat, …
DO-IT-YOURSELF GIGANTOR
Japanese robot maker Vstone Corporation has just released its latest consumer product: Tetsu-jin 28 (aka Ironman 28 – or Gigantor™, …
THE BROTHERS QUAY IN LA
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’s annual Marc Davis Lecture will be presented on Friday, April 21st. In a year that saw two …
2006 CG IMPLOSION
Get ready to hurl.With billboards and bus posters for ICE AGE 2 (opening today), THE WILD (4/14) and OVER THE HEDGE (5/19) plastering the …
FLEISCHER COLOR CLASSICS
Film buff John McElwee posted another great entry on his blog about old cartoons. This time offering some perspectives on Fleischer’s
GREAT TO BE NOMINATED
It’s back! Randy Haberkamps’s great series of Monday night screenings at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Great To Be …
ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS
Maybe it’s me – or maybe I’m just nostalgic for an old fashioned hand drawn animated feature – but this Asterix and the Vikings looks …
TOONWORLD TV CLASSICS
My friend Wayne Daigrepont has a cell phone and just found out he had Toonworld TV Classics. Here’s his email to me:So here’s my cell …
POW! BAM! WHAM!
Holy Animated Sound Effects! As a child of the 1960s, I was a huge fan of the 1966 BATMAN TV show. So I have to say I’m delighted with …
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
Films by Jove, owners of the Russian Soyuzmultfilm Studios film library, has invested more than $3 million to digitally restore the 1,500 …
UPA LAST NIGHT
Larry Loc on the ASIFA-Hollywood blog posted a bunch of photos he snapped at last night’s UPA TRIBUTE at the Egyptian Theatre in …
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