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COMIC CON RECAP #3: A COMIC BOOK REVIEW
I’m still going over the booty I obtained at the San Diego Comic Con last weekend. One thing I didn’t devote enough time to at the Comic …
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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 …
The Friz Freleng Blog-A-Thon
Brian of the Hell on Frisco Bay blog notes that August 21, 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Friz Freleng’s birth, and he’s officially …
The Parade of Ignorance Continues
From Paul Johnson’s invented history of the Disney strike to Mick LaSalle’s broad dismissal of a hundred years of animation …
MEDICAL TOONS
Rarely screened historic medical cartoons will be featured in a film series this fall at the National Academies in Washington DC. The …
Real Animation Acting
Thad Komorowski has posted three examples of animation acting – one each from Disney, WB and MGM – all created without the aid of …
Film Critics, Part II
It looks like the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE’s Mick LaSalle isn’t alone when it comes to film critics who make uninformed sweeping …
James Jarvis in LA
Tomorrow evening, July 28, illustrator/toy designer James Jarvis will be having an art show/book signing at Meltdown Comics (7522 Sunset …
1936 ARTICLE ON FLEISCHER 3-D SETS
One of my last-second purchases on Sunday, just before I left the San Diego Comic Con, was snagging this copy of the November 1936 issue …
A Monster of a Review
A prominent Pixar animator emailed me last night with the subject header “This is real” and a link to this must-read-to-believe SAN …
John K. Saves San Francisco!
The cult of John K. comes to the Bay Area.The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is hosting a presentation by John Kricfalusi this …
COMIC CON RECAP #1
Here’s the first of several posts on a few of the experiences I had, and some of the stuff I got, at the San Diego Comic Con 2006. Above …
COMIC CON: WORST CARTOONS EVER
I want to thank everyone who showed up last Friday night at the Comic Con for my annual WORST CARTOONS EVER screening. You haven’t lived …
Animation History Gone Awry
Mark Mayerson rips apart the new book CREATORS: FROM CHAUCER AND DURER TO PICASSO AND DISNEY by British historian and journalist Paul …
Ottawa Selections Announced
The Ottawa International Animation Festival is right around the corner and the selections for its 2006 edition were announced last week. …
WE ARE THE STRANGE
Here’s an odd one.We are the Strange is an independent animated feature film about “two outcasts caught in the middle of a deadly battle …
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE 2007
Just what we need – a revival of Jay Ward’s animated classic, George of the Jungle. However, a new series currently in production is …
SDCC: JERRY BECK
One more time: Here’s where you can meet me at Comic-Con International: San Diego today (Thursday), tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday:RANDOM …
SDCC: Flight Comics
Kazu Kibuishi deserves a lot of praise for what he’s done with the FLIGHT graphic anthologies. He’s managed to bring together a lot of …
SDCC: EVANIER, KRESS AND SHAW!
Our blogging buddies Mark Evanier, Scott Shaw!, and Earl Kress are moderating (or appearing) on several panels of note at the San Diego …
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