Cartoon Culture

Tim Burton at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NY is putting on a major retrospective about Tim Burton’s career this fall. It will run from November …

Shorts

Captain Cross Dresser

Sony Pictures Television has dumped its 2008 TV pilot, The Adventures of Captain Cross Dresser on the internet, via its web portal …

CGI

Team Fortress 2: “Meet the Spy”

When will the quality of video game animation rival the major theatrical animation producers? That day may already be here. Team Fortress …

Disney

Observations on Up

Had the pleasure of seeing Pixar’s latest masterpiece last Thursday — and yeah, it’s a masterpiece. They’ve done it again. An original …

Books

Let’s Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile

Apparently it’s the season for children’s books by animation artists. A couple weeks ago, we wrote about the new kids’ book by Tom …

Business

Forbes Magazine on Animation

Forbes.com just posted a rather flimsy column about animated features, discussing how much money they make and claiming there are “45 or …

Books

Two Books You Must Have in October

Come October, I know I’ll definitely be adding two new books to my bookshelf: South of the Border with Disney: Walt Disney and the …

Animators

The Missing Key

One of my favorite short films of the last few years was Jonathan Nix’s Hello. Nix is currently in the midst of post-production on a new …

Animators

1000 Times No

Just published this week from HarperCollins is Mr. Warburton’s first childrens book 1000 Times No. Warburton (Code Name: Kids Next …

Classic

David Gerstein’s Blog

The blurry image above is a frame from the “lost” ending to the early Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare-um Scare-um. David Gerstein found the …

Books

Upcoming Disney Books

I got a peek at the latest Disney Book Group catalog, prepared for this week’s London Book Fair. There are plenty of things coming up …

Classic

Pink Panther Magic Eye Stereogram

You know those Magic Eye pictures? The ones that, if you stare at it long enough, you can see 3-D (without glasses). Here’s an attempt to …

Comics

Casper, Huey and Audrey…

Today I’m in New York City and, if I may plug it one more time, tonight I’ll be signing books — in particular Harvey Comics Classics …

Comics

Harvey Talk

Next Friday you can meet me at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City where I will speaking about the origins of Harvey …

3-D

3-D is a Fad

I love 3D movies. Thanks to a pair of 3-D film festivals held in L.A. several years ago, I’ve been lucky enough to see perhaps 95% of …

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