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Animation in Columbus Ohio
Coming up in November is a series of unique animation programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts, on the campus of The Ohio State …
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Animation History Round-Up #3
• Disney theme park designs by animator Marc Davis. • Funny frame grabs from an Iwerks Willie Whopper …
Report from Ottawa: Persepolis and Goofy
From the sublime to the ridiculous… My laryngitis on Wednesday developed into a full fledged cold on Thursday and Friday, forcing me …
Olive Oyl sells sauce
A live action-animation TV commercial starring Olive Oyl has caught my eye. It’s currently airing as part of an advertising campaign for …
Op-Ed Cartoon
Does it mean anything that filmmaking icons Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni passed away the same week The Simpsons Movie …
Popeye Song Folio
One of the best pieces of Fleischer Popeye memoribilia ever created was a 32 page compilation of sheet music, the Popeye Song Folio, …
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 …
Popeye DVD: Bonus Materials
This is the original main title, unseen for 70 years, to Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves, shot with my cel phone camera …
ASIFA-Hollywood Double Header
ASIFA-Hollywood is presenting two animation events this month well worth your time and participation. Bill Plympton: On Wednesday …
Freehead Benefit Concert
Cartoonist extraordinaire Jim Smith (Ren & Stimpy, Samurai Jack, The Ripping Friends) will be performing a “farewell concert” with the …
Madonna In The ‘Who’s That Girl’ Titles
Below are the striking titles for the Madonna film Who’s That Girl (1987). The titles, which re-imagine Madonna as a Betty …
Upcoming ASIFA-Hollywood Events
Next week, on Wednesday January 10th, if you are in L.A. and are a member of ASIFA, you can join me at Nickelodeon Studios in Burbank …
Classic Animation on Flickr
Today marks the launch of the Animation History Archive on Flickr, a new group I started where we can all share interesting visual bits …
HARVEY COMICS BOOK
Like the Famous Studios cartoons which inspired (and ultimately dominated) them, Harvey Comics has gotten little attention (or respect) …
POLAR PLAYMATES
Three nice cels from Polar Playmates (1946) are currently up for sale on ebay.Polar Playmates, directed by former Disney animator Howard …
More animation artist blogs…
It’s getting so that every animation artist has a blog. Maybe in the next update, I’ll do a post about artists who don’t have blogs. Now …
VIETNAM ERA ANIMATION
Coming up later this year from McFarland & Company Publishers is a new book which examines 1960s cartoons from the perspective of the …
ADOLF – DER BONKER
Animated cartoons with a point of view on current world wars and the political scene are relatively scarce compared to the days of World …
KING LEONARDO ON BLACK FAMILY CHANNEL
Classic cartoons (and by that I mean the wide swath of animation history from 1906 to its dying days in the 1970s) are practically …
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