Ottawa Fest Photos
Animator Joe Gilland has posted a fine PHOTO ALBUM from this year’s Ottawa Animation Festival, including a section about NFB animator …
Old Brew
Book Plugs
BREW pal, New York cartoonist/animator Mark Newgarden, has written a new book which I’m very much looking forward to picking up when it’s …
Funky-Tasting Ice Cream
Tuesday, July 19, 2004_________________________ The day is a blur of work, my efforts obscured from memory by a fog of exhaustion. All …
ORIGINAL TITLES
Long time readers of my Cartoon Research website know that I’m absolutely fanatic over original titles. In fact I have a whole section of …
Hertzfeldt Chat Tonight
Indie filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt will participate in his only live chat of 2004 this evening at 6pm (Pacific time). He’ll talk about his …
Incredible Art
Just noticed that THE ART OF THE INCREDIBLES, which could be alternately titled “The Genius of Teddy Newton,” is now shipping at Amazon. …
Classic Disney Artists In Their Own Words
I’m excited about WALT’S PEOPLE – TALKING DISNEY WITH THE ARTISTS WHO KNEW HIM, a new book project being edited by Didier Ghez. Each book …
Birds and Clem
Monday, July 19, 2004_________________________ I was enjoying a pleasant morning walk around the pond, minding my own business, when …
TWO GOOD TRAILERS
Check out these Quicktime trailers for Blue Sky’s ROBOTS and Nickelodeon’s THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE.
DANGERFIELD (1921-2004)
One of my favorite comedians Rodney Dangerfield passed away today.I am a big fan of his work in several comedies, particularly THE …
Donald Duck Is An Asshole
In his latest article for AWN, The Animation Pimp explores the assholeishness of Donald Duck and arrives at the tragic, all too human, …
Groening Wants Simpsons To Run Until 2009
SIMPSONS creator Matt Groening talks to THE SUN about his new goal: “I’d love to get to 365 episodes, so there’s one for every day of the …
The Blue Lagoon
Sunday, July 18, 2004_________________________ I take a (sixty dollar!) cab ride to the Blue Lagoon, Iceland’s largest geothermal spa. …
ROAST AN ANIMATOR
On November 9th at 7pm, at New York comedy club Carolines On Broadway, Bill Plympton will be “roasted” by some of New York’s best known …
ASIFA EAST ON-LINE
Asifa-East is finally getting serious about it’s internet presence. Animator Xeth Feinberg (MishMash Media) is the new webmaster of the …
Harry Inside Pixar
BREW pal and PC WORLD editor-in-chief, Harry McCracken, visited Pixar over the weekend, as part of the Cartoon Art Museum’s benefit …
Animated in Montreal
A couple cool cartoon finds to report from my recent sidetrip to Montreal. The first was my discovery of cartoonist La Palme. In one of …
SHARK TALE GROSS
Holy Mackerel!SHARK TALE has an estimated weekend box office gross of $49,000,000.!
Discovering Dogs In Iceland
Saturday, July 17, 2004_________________________Mark Zaslove has killed me. He’s shown me where to get the BEST HOT DOGS IN THE WORLD, …
Ottawa Report
While I continue to procrastinate writing my Ottawa report (it’ll be sometime next week folks), check out the September 28 entry HERE for …
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