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Seth MacFarlane Speaks

There’s a first time for everything, and I believe this is the first time I’ve ever agreed with something FAMILY GUY creator Seth …

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COMMERCIALS SCREENING

Larry Loc has posted some photos on the Asifa-Hollywood blog from our Saturday afternoon marathon screening of TV commercials of the 50s …

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TEX AVERY WALLPAPER

Spring is here. Time to change the wallpaper on your desktop. Here’s a whole page of Tex Avery scenes to choose from.

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Hey Look!

Harvey Kurtzman is among a handful of cartoonists who can be labeled a true genius, and just one example of his genius can be found in …

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Burton’s Frankenweenie in CG

Here’s one from the Disney rumor mill. I recently heard that Disney is developing a CG-animated version of Tim Burton’s 1984 live-action …

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Ace in the Hole

Whoever said corporations don’t listen to their customers? Cartoon Brew has found out that following the embarassing debut of LOONATICS, …

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LA REMINDERS

Tonight:A tribute to Frédéric Back, with a screening and a panel discussion with Pete Docter (Pixar), Production Designer Paul Felix …

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1950S-1960S COMMERCIALS

This Saturday, March 26th at 3pm, Asifa-Hollywood is presenting a program of the coolest animated television commercials from the golden …

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Kimball Paints Oreb

After the recent post about Ward Kimball paintings, somebody emailed to ask whether I had a color version of Kimball’s painting of Disney …

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Book Review: the ARt of robots

The only thing I enjoy more than plugging the work of animation artists is plugging my own work, so with that in mind, let me direct you …

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Thorsten Hasenkamm

Thorsten Hasenkamm is an illustrator/painter working out of Germany who is influenced by all facets of pop culture: lucha, tiki, 60s-mod, …

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NICKELODEON DOES ODDBALL COMICS

The April 2005 issue of NICKELODEON magazine features an article/game on Oddball Comics, titled “Odd Comic Out” (on pages 42 and 43), …

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HAL SEEGER (1917-2005)

We’ve just learned that animator Hal Seeger passed away on March 13th at age 87.Seeger got his start as an assistant animator at the …

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John Hubley’s Navy Films

After posts about Flora, Blair and Kimball, how could I resist posting about another cartoon design genius, John Hubley (1914-1977), the …

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Ward Kimball, Painter

Here are a couple beautiful paintings by one of Disney’s Nine Old Men, Ward Kimball (1914-2002). He was, of course, a genius animator and …

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