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ANNIE AWARD NOMINEES
Asifa Hollywood announced it’s nominees for it’s annual Annie Awards today. The list is too long to post here but key nominees are:Best …
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PAUL JULIAN MURAL
Our Lost Hollywood Animator Mural series continues with this beauty (above) painted by Paul Julian.Reader Terry Guy passes along this …
Defending the McCay
Larry Loc, a Winsor McCay Award committee member and one of ASIFA-Hollywood’s hardest working board members, has written a defense of …
Misplaced Honor
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the three recipients for this year’s Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award and they are Don Bluth, …
Stalled Car?
The trailer for Pixar’s CARS is honestly one of the most perplexing pieces of animation I’ve seen in a long time. After the magnificent …
MR. LAWRENCE
There are two great events happening this Saturday in Los Angeles. Both are opposite each other at 3pm and I’m somewhat involved with …
REVIEWS DERAIL POLAR EXPRESS
Manohla Dargis, in reviewing THE POLAR EXPRESS in today’s NY TIMES, makes a few good points worth posting here:”The Polar Express” is a …
JACKY’S WACKY WORLD
Scott Shaw informs us:On Thursday, November 4th, the multi-talented Jack Mendelsohn — creator of the classic Oddball comic strip, comic …
BILL LIEBOWITZ (1941-2004)
The Los Angeles comics and animation scene lost a big man today – Bill Liebowitz, owner of Golden Apple Comics passed away this morning …
INCREDIBLES PREMIERE PARTY
I was invited at the last minute, last night, to attend the world premiere party for THE INCREDIBLES. Antran Manoogian (president of …
Engel and Braxton History
Here’s a two-minute VIDEO CLIP of the late Jules Engel discussing a conflict he had with Walt Disney about a cartoon frog. He also takes …
Saturday Morning Stroll
Saturday, July 31, 2004_________________________ Even though I’ve been here eighteen days (Christ, is that all? It seems like a …
Pixar and The Uncanny Valley
I stumbled across an interesting blog post over at RobotJohnny.com that again mentions the “Uncanny Valley” theory and how Brad Bird has …
Home, Sweet (Icelandic) Home
Friday, July 23, 2004_________________________ The alert reader will notice that there was no description of yesterday’s events. We …
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
Played a superhero on the screen, became a superhero in real life.Rest in Peace.
Birds and Clem
Monday, July 19, 2004_________________________ I was enjoying a pleasant morning walk around the pond, minding my own business, when …
Animated in Montreal
A couple cool cartoon finds to report from my recent sidetrip to Montreal. The first was my discovery of cartoonist La Palme. In one of …
Sleep…Finally
Friday, July 16, 2004_________________________Jumping Jesus on a smoldering birch bark canoe, these slave-driving Vikings have got me …
REMEMBERING FRANK
Charicature byOllie JohnstonLast night at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Disney held a memorial for Frank Thomas. It was a …
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