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A Letter from Ward Kimball

Animator and director Will Finn has posted a letter that he received from Ward Kimball in 1973 packed with sage words about becoming an …

Here’s a killer item on ebay. If I could afford it, I’d buy this. Since I can’t I might as well post it here and maybe one of our …

One of the “Holy Grails” amongst us cartoon historians is the series of four Barney Google cartoons produced in Technicolor by Columbia …

It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …

I was speaking to June Foray today and was surprised to find out she isn’t in the cast of the currently-in-production CG Horton Hears A …

Well, there goes Popeye the Sailor Man, It’s A Hap-Hap Happy Day and Casper The Friendly Ghost. Not the characters (they were sold off …

Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions sent me a note about an early-1960s British animated series, The Pingwings, which had been …

One of my guilty pleasures, when watching Paramount cartoons from the mid-1930s through the late 1940s, is admiring the incredible …

(click for large version) Shane Glines of the indispensable Cartoon Retro has sent over a fascinating 1935 article, titled …

If there’s one question I’ve received more frequently than any other since the release of Cartoon Modern, it’s “Where can I see the UPA …

Now Hear This is without doubt one of the weirder (and more difficult to find) WB shorts that Chuck Jones ever made, but it’s a nice …

Here is one of the best MySpace pages I have seen devoted to a classic cartoon series. Forgotten Flintstones contains a lot of fun …

Not to be overlooked in this year of great classic cartoon DVD releases (the The Little King and Cultoons collection is subtitled …

At the pace we’re going, by this time next week our site will likely be renamed Kimball Brew. But after seeing the incredible Ward …

Over at CreativePro.com, writer Gene Gable has posted a great series of articles on all aspects of vintage design, discussing everything …

David Mackenzie has gotten his hands on the hotly anticipated dvd set Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection, slated for release on …

A Hollywood production artist, part-time performer and animator, Paul Manchester, has inherited a cache of rare World War II animation …

There’s a big post at the Cartoon Modern blog about Sterling Sturtevant’s character design work on the 1955 short Magoo Express. The post …

Look! Universal has posted a teaser page to promote the Woody Woodpecker DVD coming out on July 24th. Note that pre-orders can be …