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SCRAPPYLAND is now a blog!

I’ve previously plugged Harry McCracken’s ongoing efforts to recognize Columbia Picture’s most popular (and now long forgotten) cartoon …

No matter how many books one reads about classic Disney animation, it’s difficult to imagine the day-to-day life of artists during the …

Looney Tunes mega-fan Matthew Hunter (of the Misce-Looney-Ous blog) has started another worth-while project for the benefit of mankind. …

Seventy-two years ago today – on July 27th, 1940 – Bugs Bunny appeared in Tex Avery’s A Wild Hare. The Warner Bros. short is widely …

Imagine that animator/film director Terry Gilliam had a daughter. Imagine that daughter dug through her dad’s archives. Imagine that she …

UPDATE 7/23: It’s official! The Wall Street Journal has reported that Dreamworks is paying $155 million to acquire Classic Media LLP, …

A last look at some of my coolest finds at the Con. And here’s a real winner: this unframed cel, found in a stack of MGM odds and …

If you are not at the San Diego Comic Con next Saturday, but find yourself in Northern California – here’s where you should dwell: The …

Walt Disney’s first home – his family’s house on Tripp Ave. in Chicago – is for sale. This is where Walt spent the first four years of …

J. P. Miller created brilliant drawings for the “Baby Weems” sequence of The Reluctant Dragon, and Andreas Deja has posted a nice …

Had to post this photo with June Foray and her well-deserved Emmy Award, taken a few minutes ago at the broadcast of Stu’s Show. Again, …

Animation historians can sleep a little easier tonight. We now know that the rotoscope model for Superman in the classic Fleischer …

More from that cache of vintage MGM model sheets obtained by Mike Van Eaton. I don’t think these have been reprinted, or are on any other …

Apparently, Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-bionic Titan) impressed Sony Pictures …

FX Guide offers an in-depth look at how Pixar created the curly red hair of Brave’s Merida including a 30-minute audio podcast with Pixar …

Once upon a time, way back in 1937… MGM decided to produce its own cartoons and set up a studio on the lot. They ended their …

The Walt Disney Family Museum announced yesterday their first major special exhibition, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of …

The consummately cute Fifties-era Hallmark booklet below was drawn by Louie Schmitt (1908-1993) and painted by Stan Spohn (1915-2012), …

Golden Age animator Phil Monroe (1916-1988) is rarely discussed, even amongst animation cognoscenti, which is unfortunate because he had …

It’s been exactly one year since we first told you about Tom Stathes’ ambitious Bray Animation Project website. Both it and its …