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Animation History Round-Up #4

• Rediscovering the early illustration work of Fifties-era animation designer Cliff Roberts. • The new …

Feature Film

Augenblick Animates The Ten

Animation Magazine has a good article about the new art house movie The Ten and the Flash-animated sequence in it produced by Augenblick …

Classic

Paramount Shorts 1934

Here’s a killer item on ebay. If I could afford it, I’d buy this. Since I can’t I might as well post it here and maybe one of our …

Classic

More Classic Animation on DVD

Not to be overlooked in this year of great classic cartoon DVD releases (the The Little King and Cultoons collection is subtitled …

Books

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

Man, I can’t wait for this one! Ammo Books is getting ready to release what could become one of the must-have books of recent times: a …

Cartoon Culture

Worth 1000 Cartoons

Worth 1000.com held a Photoshop contest this weekend where contestants had to incorporate animated cartoon characters into classic …

Events

Glenn Barr’s Haunted Paradise

Forget the fact that Glenn Barr did backgrounds for Ren & Stimpy, or The New Woody Woodpecker Show, or has contributed to Mad Magazine …

Illustration

Noir Nouar

One of the pleasures of my monthly cartoon screening gig with Janet Klein at the Steve Allen Theatre (first Thursday of every month at …

Old Brew

News Round-Up

Since we’ve been down for several hours (changing servers), we have a lot to catch up on.&#149 Yes it’s true. Dreamworks and Aardman have …

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BUSTER BALLOON

I was lucky enough to attend a wonderful Boxing Day party last night which was teeming with Hollywood celebrities (not to name drop, but …

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SUGAR, SUGAR

The Archie Show was one of the biggest hit TV cartoons of the late 60s/early 70s. And the Archie Comics company has been pretty good …

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1920 GRIM NATWICK MOVIE ADS

Our friend Leslie Cabarga purchased several bound volumes of old newspapers from San Francisco years ago, and was going through them …

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GASOLONE ALLEY

I love when newspaper comic strips do crossovers and this weeks continuity of GASOLINE ALLEY is a particular treat. Walt Wallet visits …

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Bernard Wolf (1911-2006)

Animation veteran Berny Wolf died last week at the age of 95. He had incredible success in the field, with work ranging from pioneering …

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THE SHELL SHOW WITH MAE QUESTEL

This is a lot of fun…An MP3 of The Shell Show (January 16th, 1937) starring Joe Cook, with special guest Mae Questel (as the voice of …

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REFREDERATOR

Starting tomorrow, Frederator Studios establishes ReFrederator.com, a daily vintage cartoon video podcast – and you don’t even need an …

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TOONWORLD TV CLASSICS

My friend Wayne Daigrepont has a cell phone and just found out he had Toonworld TV Classics. Here’s his email to me:So here’s my cell …

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