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Simpsons in Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair has published an extensive oral history about The Simpsons. The piece includes the thoughts of everybody from cartoonist Gary …
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RIP, David Hilberman
ASIFA-San Francisco president Karl Cohen forwarded a note to let us know that UPA co-founder and one of the last of the truly great …
Tokyo International Film Festival’s Animation Lineup Aims To Bring Creators And Audiences Together
Tokyo’s animation program pairs international premieres and original anime with discussions on creative careers and opportunities for women directors.
San Diego Comic Con: Animation Programming
They’ve just posted the complete schedule of programming for the San Diego Comic Con, July 26-29. Below I’ve extracted the animation …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Tex Avery
The word genius is thrown around a bit too frequently nowadays (admittedly, I’m guilty of it myself), but true animation geniuses the …
The Venice Chronicles by Enrico Casarosa
Last week, Pixar story artist Enrico Casarosa finished his personal watercolor comic The Venice Chronicles. For much of the past year, …
New Stop Motion Book by Barry Purves
Highly regarded stop motion animator Barry Purves has wrapped up a new book called Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance which is …
Trailers From Hell
Okay, this is slighty OT, but I absolutely love it. Our cartoon pal Joe Dante (Looney Tunes: Back In Action) and his movie director …
Cupcake Hitler
What if Hitler were a cupcake? For those who were wondering why they don’t make World War II propaganda cartoons like they used to, …
Popeye Update
Once again, the original title from Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves. This time I was able to grab the frame from the DVD …
Woodpecker Update
Props to Ruben Procopio — who worked at Disney animation for many years, and whose father was a sculptor at Disney for 35 years — who …
Thurl, Thurl, Thurl
Ahhh… The joys of Thurl collecting. If you love old cartoons (or are simply addicted to Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes) then you …
Chris McD
Last week at Platform, Jerry and I both received a lot of compliments about our new CartoonBrew/CartoonBrewFilms promo piece. So I …
Animators at Work
Animator David Nethery has created a wonderful photo album of classic and contemporary animators at their animation desks.
Boris Kolar’s Woof, Woof!
I love the work that came out of Zagreb Film in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. These years were responsible for some of the funkiest and most …
Janet Klein show tonight
I forgot to mention I’m showing a few cartoons tonight at the Janet Klein concert in Hollywood. 8pm at the Steve Allen Theatre. More …
Ratatouille Art
A new Pixar film usually means another great Chronicle Art Of book and, at the other end of the spectrum, another neat looking Little …
Here Comes Trouble…
Just in time to ruin your holiday, this poster has popped up on various movie sites this week. First Underdog, now this. It looks …
Imagination by Eric Leiser
Eric Leiser, a recent grad of the CalArts Experimental Animation program, has completed his first feature film, Imagination, which …
Independence Day
Have a happy Fourth of July.
Don Hertzfeldt Wins at Platform
The awards ceremony of the Platform festival had some pretty funny moments, one of the funnier being Don Hertzfeldt’s acceptance speech …
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