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What Animation Can Learn from a Restaurant Owner
This business case study of Ferran Adrià ‘s restaurant elBulli restaurant has nothing to do on the surface with cartoons, yet the …
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Display at Bergdorf Goodman
The Bergdorf Goodman Men’s Store in Manhattan has fantastic window displays this season…Fantastic Mr. Fox displays that is. The twelve …
Mr. Lawrence
The artwork above was from a presentation I created when I was an exec at Nickelodeon 13 years ago. It was (and still is) my mission in …
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
Nevin Martell’s Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Strip has piqued my …
Gene Deitch: Quo Vadis Animation?
Veteran animation director Gene Deitch and his wife Zdenka were invited to the Xiamen International Animation Festival (Oct. 30th-Nov. …
A Christmas Carol Opens Today
Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol opens today to a chorus of negative reviews and a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A particularly …
Maxine Patin
As a historian, I get a real kick whenever I discover that somebody I had no idea was still alive is, in fact, alive and well. Such is …
Jonathan Demme To Make An Animated Feature
The book cover illustration above by Rachell Sumpter is responsible for one of the more intriguing animated feature announcements I’ve …
Dr. Sketchy’s is coming!
Dr. Sketchy’s is an alternative life drawing salon and traveling artists social club – and it’s coming to California. It started as a …
Canemaker talks McCay at Ohio State
More John Canemaker news! John will present his do-not-miss lecture/screening on the art and life of animation pioneer Winsor McCay …
Chuck Jones’s Opinion of Working at Disney
I’ve praised this blog before, but the Chuck Jones blog, run by Chuck’s grandson Craig, continues to be a treasure trove of artwork and …
Mighty Mouse – the New Adventures on DVD
Here it comes to save your day. This past year I’ve been working with CBS Video and Paramount Home Entertainment on compiling the …
Astro Boy‘s Abysmal Opening, and Imagi’s Sinking Ship
Imagi, an animation studio that thought it could compete with the big boys, has suffered a major blow after the abysmal opening of Astro …
Ottawa Animation ad campaign
The funniest thing I saw in Ottawa last week wasn’t on screen, in a theatre or even cartoons. They were the festival posters plastered on …
Joe Murray Plans Animation Video Site
Joe Murray is in the planning stages of a new site called KaBoing TV, which he envisions as “an all cartoon, all animation channel, not …
Random UPA Publicity 1951-1953
Here’s some show-and-tell. I found these odds and ends of UPA publicity at Cinecon, the classic movie convention held in Hollywood over …
Lui Lui in Amelica by Vera Wing Lui
Lui Lui in Amelica is a thesis film project by Chinese-born Vera Wing Lui, who graduated this year from University of the Arts in …
Reviews of the Walt Disney Family Museum
Reviews of the Walt Disney Family Museum are beginning to appear in papers and online. There aren’t many (if any) animation-related …
Sneak Peek: The Disney Family Museum
Animator Steve Segal had an opportunity to preview the new Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, which is opening to the public …
Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #15
The annual Treehouse of Horror issue is out today. It’s guest edited by Sammy Harkam, the creator of the Kramers Ergot anthology. If you …
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