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FRED PATTEN UPDATE
Our dear friend Fred Patten suffered a stroke last March. I’m happy to say he’s recovering nicely (slowly, but nicely) – and he now has a …
Jerry Beck
SUPER SATURDAY, PART DEUX
After seeing our previous post on the ABC SUPER SATURDAY CLUB, J.J. Sedelmaier comes clean with his past transgressions by sending in the …
MEDIA ALERT: JUNE FORAY ON LARRY KING
I sat with June Foray at the CINECON banquet last night in Hollywood. I’m not trying to name drop, but I wanted to pass along this bit of …
SUPER SATURDAY CLUB
ABC’s Saturday morning cartoon line-up in 1969 must represent the pinnacle of low budget, cheapjack, crap-tacular TV cartoon production. …
MATINEE MOUSE
When is a theatrical release not a theatrical release?As someone who is monitoring U.S. theatrical animated releases – for both my …
SEPTEMBER GARAGE SALE
My garage sale continues with some obscure pencil original art from Van Beuren and Lantz studios.
CINECON & JANET KLEIN
This’ll be slightly off-topic. I’m plugging my whereabouts the next five days. Tomorrow night I will be in two places at once. First I’ll …
HOOTERS HIRES BETTY BOOP
Just when you thought King Features couldn’t sink any lower – they do this.(Link to Mark Evanier’s News From ME)
EMPRESS CHUNG
Who says traditional animation is dead?Not Nelson Shin – the Walt Disney of Korea. His epic labor-of-love, EMPRESS CHUNG, has finally …
Marcelo Braga’s blog
Brazilian cartoonist Marcelo Braga (of the Macacolandia Studio) has started a blog, which is loaded with his, and some of his friends, …
THE NEW GUMBY
The current owners of National Lampoon have partnered with Art Clokey Productions to recraft the original Gumby TV series into an “edgy, …
ENTERTAINMENT ART ACADEMY
Mike Mattesi is opening a new art school in Pasadena, ENTERTAINMENT ART ACADEMY. Stephen Silver will be there doing a lecture on Charater …
COMIC CON 2006
I don’t know about you, but I just booked a hotel room for July 20-23 in downtown San Diego. Eleven months in advance.• San Diego …
BEHIND “CORPSE BRIDE”
We will be having a contest the week of September 12th relating to Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE. Warner Bros. will be giving us prizes and …
CANEMAKER’S WINSOR MCCAY
John Canemaker’s Winsor McCay – His Life and Art, his 1987 biography of the great newspaper cartoonist and pioneer animator, will be …
RENEGADE COCOA PUFFS
Wanna see what Renegade Animation does when it isn’t working on PUFFY AMI YUMI?This spot for Cocoa Puffs combines cel animation and …
NEXTOONS: DAY #3
My pick from last night’s competition: A SIXTY SECOND TRAGEDY by Dane Webster.• Nextoons site
DISNEY’S CINDERELLA
CINDERELLA (1950) played an important role in setting the Disney feature animation style of the 1950s, it inspired key attractions at …
NEXTOONS: DAY #2
I missed Day #1.But my vote on Day #2 goes to Jessica Borutski’s I LIKE PANDAS.• Nextoons site
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