Cartoon Culture

A Coffeeshop for Animators

Finally, somebody has combined two of my passions: coffee and cartoons. Flip Cafe is a coffeeshop in Bangkok that, according to their …

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A Ralph Hulett Christmas

While Eyvind Earle is the best known of the Disney artists who illustrated Christmas cards, a number of other Disney artists had …

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ANIMATED FEATURES BY SOLO ARTISTS

With several big budget funny animal epics opening almost weekly, 2006 may well go down as the year of CG feature burnout. But 2006 may …

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Amid’s Notes from Ottawa 2006

The 2006 edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival marked my fourth straight year that I’ve attended the festival. Instead …

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Freddie Moore Slandered Again?

Jeff Lenburg’s new book WHO’S WHO IN ANIMATED CARTOONS apparently continues to perpetuate one of the big lies of animation history: that …

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BEFORE WALT

For years, Ray Pointer of Inkwell Images has been compiling the best of early American cartoon art and preserving animation history …

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50s Design Book and Blast #9 Update

Here’s a quick update on the two biggest projects that I’m dealing with at the moment. First, the latest on the Chronicle book. It’s now …

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Ottawa 05 Preview

The Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 21-25, 2005) has issued a call for entries for its 2005 edition. Entry forms are …

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UPA

Tee Bosustow, son of Stephen Bosustow, has launched a new website devoted to the animation studio his father owned and operated for 14 …

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NY Dispatch #1

This past week I’ve been hanging around New York City on a business trip of sorts, though admittedly, business in my case is fairly …

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Collect All 99

Baby Tattoo is a new company I found out about while down at the San Diego Comic-Con. It’s a publishing company founded by Bob Self with …

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Pablo Ferro’s Dynamite Titles

I mentioned Saul Bass here yesterday and if there’s another film title designer who can hold his own against Bass it’s Pablo Ferro. He is …

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