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When Richie Rich was cool
I know it’s hard to believe, but Richie Rich was a cool dude once. Once upon a time the character, originally created by Harvey …
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Animated Manhattan
Inspired by the book Celluloid Skyline, which examined the depictions of New York in live-action film, the blog Ironic Sans has a …
Achieving Hand-Drawn Animation Via CG and Flash
Adam Yaniv, an animator at Rhythm & Hues by day, recently pointed me to this small personal project he created as an entry in Heinz’s Top …
New This Week: Mary Blair’s Cinderella
I’ve mentioned it before but the new Cinderella storybook, illustrated with Mary Blair’s conceptual artwork from the Disney feature, is …
‘Karnival’ by Jun seo Hahm
Karnival is a series of super-short animated pieces created by Jun seo Hahm at Portland commercial studio Bent Image Lab. The first two …
Michael Bierut on Charley Harper
Todd Oldham’s new monograph on Charley Harper (1922-2007), mentioned here last February, is a winner in every sense of the word. From the …
Monday Morning Maurice
Not sure why I’ve never linked to this before but here is an illuminating 1991 interview with legendary animation background designer …
New Ed Emshwiller Bio
Emshwiller Infinity x Two by Luis Ortiz is a new joint-biography of artists Ed and Carol Emshwiller. Carol was a fiction writer, but of …
LA: Jules Engel Show & Cartoon Mod Signing
Through the end of August, the Tobey C. Moss Gallery (7321 Beverly Boulevard, LA, CA) has on display a show of animation artwork by Jules …
R.I.P. Alexander Tatarski
I just got word that Alexander Tatarski, an internationally known and praised animator, has passed away. He died yesterday at age …
At Meltdown
Went to Meltdown Comics tonight and found out that two weeks from now they will be having a three day exhibit and opening reception for …
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 …
Magic Moving Images
I was going to post about Collin Ord’s forthcoming book Magic Moving Images: Animated Optical Illusions, but he’s posted a (silent) video …
Interviews with Neal Gabler, Tom Sito and Me
A few weeks ago, Mark Lynch of New England public radio station WICN ran two hours of interviews with animation authors on his radio show …
Gene Deitch’s office
Last month, my pal Rusty Frank told me she was going to Prague to perform (she’s a tap dancer and expert on the history of tap) and she …
Miguel Covarrubias Book
It’s turning out to be quite a year for aficionados of 20th century illustration. First there’s the upcoming Charley Harper volume (I saw …
Commentary: (The lack of) Cartoon Promotion
Leonard Maltin, aware of my interest in old-time animation publicity materials, sent along this image (above) from Benjamin Hampton’s …
Chronicle Blogging
Development piece by John Hubley from UPA’s Rooty Toot (1952). From the collection of Mike Glad. The folks at …
CONTEST: The Ancient Book of Myth and War
CONTEST OVER! I thought it was a fairly difficult question but obviously not for Brew readers. Before I could even get to my computer, …
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