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Business

Titmouse opens a studio in New York

Animation studio Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Megas XLR) has opened a New York studio in the Tribeca district of Manhattan. The image above …

Events

Jerry’s October event calendar

If you can’t find me in October, you aren’t trying hard enough. But before we discuss October, tonight Cartoon Dump (9/27) returns with …

Comics

The Sunday Funnies (9/26/10)

This week, from the top, a San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoon (9/3) by Steve Breen; Mother Goose and Grimm (9/24) by Mike Peters; …

Ideas/Commentary

Creating Chewbacca

Great weekend read: Michael Heilemann explores how George Lucas created Chewbacca, or rather how he…um…borrowed…it from somebody …

Studios

Warner Bros. cartoon murals

When the Warner Bros. Animation Department was located in Burbank in the 1980s (the period when they were producing the Greg Ford/Terry …

Flash

“Toxie” Debuts on NPR Website

When I bumped into Stephen Neary a couple nights ago, he told me about his new animated piece “Toxie” which debuted on NPR.org this …

Shorts

A trailer for a Jimi Hendrix short

This is the trailer for The Experience, a Jimi Hendrix-themed short that was produced to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of his …

Shorts

“Bottle” by Kirsten Lepore

The first time we wrote about Kirsten Lepore, she was studying at Maryland Institute College of Art where she’d made an inventive …

Stop Motion

Dreadlock animation

Not letting anything go to waste, stop motion animator Jessica Bayliss made this stop-motion pixilation documenting the last moments of …

Student

Normativism by Eliran Bichman

Eliran Bichman’s final project made at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem is a powerful, personal, self-portrait on being a …

TV

Here comes The Hub

I don’t know about where you live, but popping up all over L.A. are these scary billboards (see above) promoting The Hub, Hasbro and …

Bad Ideas

French kids ride in Obelix ass

Over at Parc Asterix, the French theme park based on René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s Asterix comic books, there’s an innocent kid’s …

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