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JOHN FIEDLER (1925-2005)

The Hundred Acre Wood in the sky is now complete. Actor John Fiedler, longtime voice of Piglet in the Walt Disney shorts, features and …

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Happy Birthday, Cartoon Retro

This past Monday was the one-year anniversary of CartoonRetro.com, an incredible source of daily visual inspiration that never fails to …

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Le Building

LE BUILDING is a minute-and-a-half film that was used as an opening for the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film …

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MUTT & JEFF

The latest Inkwell Images’ dvd, Inkwell Images Ink.com

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OPPOSITES JAMBOREE

Floyd Bishop at Bishop Animation does good work.We just finished our latest short, “Opposites Jamboree”, an educational film. Kids tend …

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BREWING

Nice still from Tex Avery’s final MGM cartoon CELLBOUND (1955). Note that background painter Vera Ohman and ink & paint supervisor Art …

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RAY BRADBURY

Our friend Brooke Keesling (aka Boobie Girl) wrote in to tell us about a very unique art show that will be taking place for one day only, …

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ANIMATED AND CONSTIPATED

Here’s a lost industrial cartoon I’d like to see… THE AMAZING RECOVERY OF INBAD THE AILER. This animated cartoon was shown somewhere …

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SUPER MOUSE

Here’s something we cartoon historians don’t see everyday. In fact, baby boomers and everyone born since then have never seen it: The …

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Cube à la Jenkins

Director Ward Jenkins has a really nice Flickr photoset of his workspace at Primal Screen. He writes more about the pictures at the …

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LOONATICS UNLEASHED

The new designs are in.Somebody stop this… In the name of humanity… “Loonatics Unleashed”, an all-new action packed, …

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ANIMATION BOOKSIGNING IN GLENDALE

The Mystery & Imagination bookshop (aka BookFellows) on Brand Blvd. in Glendale is hosting a gala animation book signing this Saturday at …

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Shadow Puppets on Nick

Who would have thought: Michel Gagné and Nickelodeon? Michel has been contracted by Nick to produce eleven short animated pieces …

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AESOPS FABLES

I usually wait until someone sends me a free copy of something before I plug it – but this new release from Thunderbean Animation looks …

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HUSH MY MOUSE

One of our readers has been privately sharing some images from his private cartoon art collection with me. But this one (above) is …

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2-D EXPO POSTPONED

Asifa Hollywood’s annual 2-D Expo, which had been announced for June 25th 2005, has been postponed.I am part of the committee putting …

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Pixar at MOMA

A few days ago, I mentioned a couple books that Chronicle Books will be publishing this winter in honor of Pixar’s twentieth anniversary. …

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