Mickey Mouse Plate That Tries to Celebrate Drawing
Charles Kenny at the Animation Anomaly spotted these Mickey and Minnie Mouse plates at his local Target. They appear cool in that, “Look, …
Charles Kenny at the Animation Anomaly spotted these Mickey and Minnie Mouse plates at his local Target. They appear cool in that, “Look, …
Arambula's storied career took him from the animation studios of Mexico City to a 15-year run as the lead artist of the Mickey Mouse comic strip.
Mickey Mouse is getting a museum retrospective for his 90th birthday.
To celebrate Mickey's 90th birthday, Taschen and Disney have teamed up to produce a massive book on the character.
The first sign that you might get laid off at Disney: the bosses won't give you a new computer.
Steve Hulett remembers the time when Disney artists were told they were being moved to a warehouse off the lot, and the animation division's first "gong show" pitch session.
Michael Eisner lounged his six-foot-four frame in a conference room chair. He was wearing jeans and sweatshirt, but why not? It was a Saturday morning.
Walt Disney Productions changed forever when two guys named Mike and Frank showed up.
When the Disney strike of 1982 ended and the story artists returned to their respective work spaces in the animation building, "Basil of Baker Street" was still running along two sets of tracks. There were storyboards filled with gags and character bits, and boards filled with plot points.
"Basil of Baker Street" by novelist Eve Titus was an illustrated children's book centered on a mouse who fancied himself an ace detective. The mouse resided (naturally enough) inside the walls of 31 Baker Street in London, home of a human-sized ace detective, the name of whom escapes me.
Steve Hulett recounts his role in the the confusing and chaotic production of Disney's most un-Disney-like feature, "The Black Cauldron."
I was back in Don Duckwall's office, exchanging insincere smiles with him. I had been on "The Fox and the Hound" with Larry, Woolie, and everybody else for half a year. But now Don wanted me to go on another assignment.
Disney's head animation writer in 1977 was cartoon veteran Larry Clemmons, who had first been hired at the studio in 1930. At the time of his hiring, he was a Yale graduate with a degree in architecture, but an Ivy League education was of little value in 1930 when the economy was collapsing...and few buildings were being erected.
There’s some upstanding companies and artists advertising on Cartoon Brew nowadays, and we want to take a moment to highlight some of the …
Most animation fans know that Ub Iwerks co-created Mickey Mouse. But he contributed much more to animation.
On November 29th and 30th at the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada, Holabird and Kagin Americana will give collectors the …
Calling all animation historians and Disney geeks! Our friends at the Modern Mechanix blog have dug up another animation related article …
What the hell is this? Actually, these are officially licensed Cubic Mouth Disney Key Covers (above), designed by Satoshi …
Some disappointing news out of the Licensing Expo now going on in Las Vegas. Disney has officially announced their next hand-drawn …
Actually, this portrait of the Mouse (by Marcelo Braga) is one of the nicer ones. A blog devoted to bad drawings of Mickey, sent in …